دَوٍ

1.
and دَوًى (applied to a man, S) Diseased, disordered, distempered, sick, or ill: (T, M, K:) or whose جَوْف [i. e. chest, or belly,] is in a bad, or corrupt, state, by reason of a disease: (S:) the former word has a dual form and a plural, [which is دَوُونَ,] and a feminine, (M,) which is دَوِيَةٌ: (S:) but دَوًى is used alike as masculine and feminine and singular (S, M) and dual (M) and plural, (S, M,) being originally a verbal noun (S.) A poet uses ↓ the latter as meaning disordered, or ill, by reason of intense drowsiness. (M.)
2.
[Hence,] one says, إِنَّهُ لَدَوِى الصَّدْرِ [meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily he is one whose bosom is affected with rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite: see 1, second sentence]: and a poet says,
وَعَيْنُكَ تُبْدِى أَنَّ صَدْرَكَ لِى دَوِىْ
[(assumed tropical:) And thine eye shows that thy bosom is affected with rancour towards me]. (Lth, T.)
3.
أَرْضٌ دَوِيَةٌ A land in which are diseases: (As, T, S:) a land that is unsuitable [or unhealthy]; as also دَوِيَّةٌ and دُوِيَّةٌ. (M, K.)

Perseus ID: n13516