خ • و

Hunger. (IAar, K.) [And so خَوًى and خَوَاءُ, belonging to art. خوي; with which the present art. is intimately connected.] -A2- A wide valley: (K:) any wide valley in a soft, or plain, [low ground such as is termed] جَوّ; (Az, TA;) as also خَوًى: (Az, TA in art. خوى:) and low, or depressed, ground; (TA;) as also ↓ خُوَّةٌ: (JK, TA:) or the former, a soft place: (JK:) or soft ground; as in the saying, وَقَعَ غَرْسُكَ بِخَوًّ What thou hast planted has chanced to be in soft ground, in which it will take root and not fail to be productive. (TA.)

[ , by a mistake in the CK, in art. خوى, is made to signify Honey: see خُوَاءٌ in that art.]

A vacant land. (K.) See also خَوٌّ. -A2- Also a dial. var. of أُخُوَّةٌ. (IAth, TA in art. اخو: see 1 in that art.)

[app. خَوَّةٌ] Languor: occurring in a trad., in which it is said, وَ أَخَذَ أَبَا جَهْلٍ خوّةٌ فَلَا يَنْطِقُ [And a languor seized Aboo-Jahl, so that he spoke not]. (IAth, TA.)