شهوة

Arabic

Root
ش ه و (š-h-w)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃah.wa/

Noun

شَهْوَة • (šahwa) f (plural شَهَوَات (šahawāt))

  1. lust; craving; greed; yearning; passion

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: xehwa
  • Azerbaijani: şəhvət
  • Northern Kurdish: şehwetî
  • Persian: شهوت (šahvat)
    • Gujarati: શેહેવત (śehevat)
    • Ottoman Turkish: شهوت
    • Urdu: شہوت
  • Malay: syahwat
  • Swahili: shahawa
  • Uyghur: شەھۋەت (shehwet)
  • Uzbek: shahvat

Further reading

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “شهو”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Malay

Noun

شهوة (plural شهوة-شهوة or شهوة۲, informal 1st possessive شهوةکو, 2nd possessive شهوةمو, 3rd possessive شهوةڽ)

  1. Jawi spelling of syahwat.
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