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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