ساهور

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from a variant *ܣܳܗܽܘܪܴܐ (*sāhūrā) of Classical Syriac ܣܱܗܪܴܐ (sahrā, moon). Doublet of شَهْر (šahr, month).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saː.huːr/

Noun

سَاهُور • (sāhūr) m

  1. the sheath of the moon when it enters an eclipse after a saros
    Coordinate term: (the surface of the earth) سَاهِرَة (sāhira)

Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 285
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “ساهور”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 369
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ساهور”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1156
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ساهور”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1452
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