هوية

Arabic

Etymology 1

Relative noun (nisba) composed of هُوَ (huwa, he) + ـِيَّة (-iyya). Compare ماهِيّة (māhiyya).

Noun

هُوِيَّة • (huwiyya) f (plural هُوِيَّات (huwiyyāt))

  1. identity
  2. substance, essence, existence
  3. divine substance
  4. identification documents
Declension
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: hüviyyət
  • Persian: هویت
  • Ottoman Turkish: هویت

Etymology 2

Root
ه و ي (h-w-y)

Noun

هَوِيَّة • (hawiyya) f (plural هَوِيَّات (hawiyyāt))

  1. a desired thing
  2. a deep well
  3. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) deep terrain, bottomland
Declension

References

  • جُبْرَان مَسْعُود Jubrān Masʿūd (1964) “هوية”, in الرائد معجم لغوي عصري ar-rāʾid: muʿjam luḡawiyy ʿaṣriyy, 7th edition, Beirut: دار العلم للملايين Dar Al Malayin, published 1992, →OCLC, page 847
  • Francis Johnson (1852), “هوية”, in A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1406

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic هُوِيَّة (huwiyya).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ha.wij.je/, [haˈwij.je]
  • IPA(key): /ha.wij.ja/, [haˈwij.ja]
  • (file)

Noun

هويّة • (hawiyye) f

  1. identity
  2. (metonymically) identity card
    بطاقة الهويّةbiṭāqat il-hawiyyeidentity card
    (file)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.