مأوى

See also: ماوي and ماوی

Arabic

Etymology

Noun of place from the root ء و ي (ʔ-w-y).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maʔ.wan/

Noun

مَأْوًى • (maʔwan) m (dual مَأْوَيَانِ (maʔwayāni), plural مَآوٍ (maʔāwin), plural construct state مَآوِي (maʔāwī))

  1. shelter, refuge
    Synonym: مَلْجَأ (maljaʔ)

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “مأوى”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 73
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “مأوى”, 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 72
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “مأوى”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 57
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