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Arabic
Root
ح و ي • (ḥ-w-y)
- related to fathoming, writhing and coiling
Derived terms
- Verbs and verbal derivatives
- Form I: حَوَى (ḥawā, “to glean, to fathom, to encompass, to contain”)
- Verbal noun: حَيّ (ḥayy), حَوَايَة (ḥawāya)
- Active participle: حَاوٍ (ḥāwin, “snake-charmer, pilferer, scammer”)
- Passive participle: مَحْوِيّ (maḥwiyy, “coiled, serpentine”)
- Form I: حَوِيَ (ḥawiya)
- Form II: حَوَّى (ḥawwā, “to contract, retract or fold”)
- Form V: تَحَوَّى (taḥawwā, “(reflexive) to contract, recoil, ply, roll”)
- Form VIII: اِحْتَوَى (iḥtawā, “(with على or ه (h)) to contain, encompass, entail, include”)
- Form IX: اِحْوَوَى (iḥwawā)
- Form XI: اِحْوَاوَى (iḥwāwā)
- Form XIII: اِحْوَوَّى (iḥwawwā)
- Nouns and adjectives
- أَحْوى (adjective), feminine حَوَّاء (ḥawwāʔ)
- ضَرْبَة اِحْتِوَائِيَّة (ḍarba(t) iḥtiwāʔiyya)
- حَاوٍ (ḥāwin, “snake charmer”)
- حَيَّة (ḥayya, “a snake or a worm”)
- حَوَاء (ḥawāʔ, “noise”)
- حِوَاء (ḥiwāʔ, “a row or an apple”)
- حَوِيَّة (ḥawiyya, “a ply, a fold, a circumvolution”)
- حَاوِيَة (ḥāwiya, “container”, noun)
- حَوَايَا (ḥawāyā, “the guts, the intestines”, noun), singular حَاوِيَاءُ (ḥāwiyāʔu, noun) or حَوِيَّة (ḥawiyya)
- مُحْتَوًى (muḥtawan, “content”, noun)
- مُحْتَوَيَات (muḥtawayāt, “(book) contents, table of content”)
References
- Corriente, Federico (2005) “ح و ي”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 281