حَيَوَان

HayawaAnN HywAn an inf. n. of HayiYa , like HayaApN , (IB,) but having an intensive signification: (Msb:) see HayaApN , in two places. ― -b2- See also HaY~N , first sentence. ― -b3- Also Any thing, or things, possessing animal life, (Msb, K, *) whether rational or irrational; [ an animal, and animals; ] used alike as sing. and pl., because originally an inf. n.; (Msb;) contr. of mawataAnN [q. v.]. (S.) [ HayawaAnaAtN is used as its pl. of pauc. And hence,] AlHayawaAnaAtu Alxamosu [ The five animals ] is applied to what may be killed by a person in the state of A_iHoraAm , and by one engaged in prayer: (Msb in art. fsq :) these are the rat, or mouse, and the biting dog, and either the serpent, the crow termed A^aboqaE , and the kite, or the serpent, the scorpion, and the kite, or the serpent, the scorpion, and the crow, or the scorpion, the crow, and the kite. (Es-Suyootee, in “ El-Jámi' es-Sagheer, ” voce xamosN .) It is originally HayayaAnN ; (Sb, K, TA;) the Y which is the final radical letter being changed into w because the occurrence of two Y together is disliked: (Sb, TA:) Aboo-'Othmán [El-Má- zinee] holds the w to be a radical letter; but his opinion is said to be not admissible, because it is asserted that there is no instance in the language of a word of which the medial radical is Y , and the final w . (TA.)