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حَيَّة

hayyah

Hay~apN Hy Hyh Hyp [meaning A serpent ] is said by some to be from taHaw~aY , because what is so termed gathers itself together, and winds, or coils, itself; (ISd, * K, * TA;) and to be originally HawoyapN ; (TA in art. HY ;) and their opinion is strengthened by the forms and meaning of the words Ha

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1. حَيَّةٌ

Hay~apN Hy Hyh Hyp [meaning A serpent ] is said by some to be from taHaw~aY , because what is so termed gathers itself together, and winds, or coils, itself; (ISd, * K, * TA;) and to be originally HawoyapN ; (TA in art. HY ;) and their opinion is strengthened by the forms and meaning of the words Ha

2. حَيَّةٌ

Hay~apN Hy Hyh Hyp [ A serpent; ] a certain thing well known: (K, TA:) [improperly explained in the Msb as syn. with A^afoEFY :] applied to the male and the female; (S, Msb;) the p being added to denote one of a kind, as in baT~apN and dajaAjapN ; [although HaY~N is not used as a coll. gen. n.; and]

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Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.