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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