نوع

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Arabic

Etymology 1.1

Root
ن و ع (n w ʕ)
8 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

نَوَّعَ (nawwaʕa) II (non-past يُنَوِّعُ (yunawwiʕu), verbal noun تَنْوِيع (tanwīʕ))

  1. to diversify, to divide into various kinds
Conjugation

Etymology 1.2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nawʕ/
    • Audio:(file)
  • (Morocco) IPA(key): /nawʕ/, /nuːʕ/

Noun

نَوْع (nawʕm (plural أَنْوَاع (ʔanwāʕ))

  1. verbal noun of نَاعَ (nāʕa) (form I)
  2. type, variety
    اَلْأَوَّلُ مِنْ نَوْعِهِal-ʔawwalu min nawʕihithe first of its kind
    بِنَوْعٍ خَاصٍbinawʕin ḵāṣinin particular, especially
    نَوْعًا مَاnawʕanin a way
  3. (taxonomy) species
    Coordinate terms: جِنْس (jins, genus), مُسْتَنْبَت (mustanbat, cultivar), فَصِيلَة (faṣīla, family), رُتْبَة (rutba, order), مَمْلَكَة (mamlaka, kingdom)
    • 1290, Ibn Manzur, “ر ج ل”, in Lisan Al-Arab:
      الرَّجُلُ: مَعْرُوفٌ، الذَّكَرُ مِنْ نَوْعِ الْإِنْسَانِ، خِلَافُ الْمَرْأَةِ.
      ar-rajulu: maʕrūfun, aḏ-ḏakaru min nawʕi al-ʔinsāni, ḵilāfu l-marʔati.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Descendants
  • Egyptian Arabic: نوع (nūʕ)
  • Classical Persian: نوع (nawʿ /⁠nawʾ⁠/)
    • > Persian: نوع (now') (inherited)
    • Azerbaijani:
      Cyrillic script: нөв
      Latin script: növ
    • Ottoman Turkish: نوع (nävʿ /⁠näv, nävi⁠/)
      • > Turkish: nev, (superseded) nevi (inherited)
    • Urdu: نوع (nau')
  • Uzbek: nav

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic نَوْع (nawʕ).

Noun

نوع (nūʕm (plural انواع (anwāʕ))

  1. type, kind, variety

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نوع (nawʿ /⁠nawʾ⁠/, type, kind, sort), from Arabic نَوْع (nawʕ, type, kind, variety).

Noun

نوع (nevʼ) (definite accusative نوعی (nevʼi), plural انواع (envâʼ))

  1. kind, sort, type, variety, a class of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together
    Synonyms: جنس (cins), چشید (çeşid), صنف (sınf, sınıf), صوی (soy), فن (fenn)
  2. (biology) species, a group of plants or animals in which any two individuals can produce fertile offspring, by reproduction

Derived terms

Descendants

  • > Turkish: nev, (superseded) nevi (inherited)

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَوْع (nawʕ).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? naw'
Dari reading? naw'
Iranian reading? now'
Tajik reading? navʾ

Noun

Dari نوع
Iranian Persian
Tajik навъ

نوع (now') (plural انواع (anvâ') or نوع‌ها (now'-hâ))

  1. type, kind, sort
    Synonym: گونه (gune)
    آش جو یک نوع از انواع آش‌های ایرانی است.
    âš-e jow yek now' az ânvâ'-e âš-hâ-ye irâni ast.
    Ash-e-jow is one of the types of Iranian porridge.

Usage notes

The noun in the singular, نوع (now'), does not take the ezâfe, but the plural انواع (anvâ') usually does: این نوع غذا (in now' ğazâ, this type of food) but انواع غذا (anvâ'-e ğazâ, types of food).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: növ