سَخَاوِىٌّ

applied to a place, and سَخَاوِيَّةٌ applied to a land (أَرْضٌ), Soft in the earth [thereof]; (S, TA;) to which is added in the S, وَهِىَ مَنْسُوبَةٌ [and it is rel. n.]; but in the handwriting of Aboo-Zekereeyà وَهِىَ مُسْتَوِيَةٌ [i. e. and such as is even, or level]: (TA:) or the former is plural [or rather coll. gen. n.] of the latter, which signifies land soft in the earth [thereof]: or wide, or ample: as also ↓ سَخْوَاءُ: (K:) or this last signifies a soft, or plain, and wide, or ample, land: (S:) and its plural is سَخَاوَى and سَخَاوِى [or rather سَخَاوٍ, when indeterminate]: (S, K: [in the former, these two pls. are correctly written with the article السَّخَاوَى and السَّخَاوِى:]) or, according to AA, سَخَاوِىُّ signifies land, or lands, [for the explanation is ambiguous, apparently meaning the latter,] in which is nothing; and in like manner سَخَاوِيَّةٌ [but apparently as a n. un.]: according to As and A'Obeyd, land; but correctly lands: (TA:) or width, or wide extent, (JK, TA,) so some say, (TA,) of a desert, or waterless desert, and vehemence of heat thereof. (JK.)