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Arabic
Verb
دعوا (form I)
- دَعَوَا (daʕawā) /da.ʕa.waː/: third-person masculine dual past active of دَعَا (daʕā)
- دَعَوْا (daʕaw) /da.ʕaw/: third-person masculine plural past active of دَعَا (daʕā)
- دُعُوا (duʕū) /du.ʕuː/: third-person masculine plural past passive of دَعَا (daʕā)
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic دَعْوَى (daʕwā).
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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da'wā
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| Dari reading?
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da'wā
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| Iranian reading?
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da'vâ
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| Tajik reading?
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daʾvo
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Noun
دعوا • (da'vâ)
- quarrel, dispute, argument, disagreement
- (law) claim, litigation
References
- ^ Miller, Corey, Livingston, Jace, Vinson, Mark, Triebwasser Prado, Thomas (2014) Persian Dialects: As Spoken in Iran, University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language, page 94