هويس

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Arabic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Originally Egyptian Arabic, from Ottoman Turkish حوض (havız), from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

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Noun

هَوِيس (hawīsm (plural أَهْوِسَة (ʔahwisa) or هَوِيسَات (hawīsāt))

  1. lock of water, sluice
    Coordinate term: خَوْخَة (ḵawḵa)
Declension

Etymology 2

Root
ه و س (h w s)
7 terms

Noun

هَوِيس (hawīsm

  1.  (rare) notion, fancy
Declension

References

  • Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 916a
  • Littmann, Enno (1954) “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 126
  • Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 51, page 310
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “هويس”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1217a