حوض
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حَوْض
حوض
حوض 
حوض
Arabic
| Root |
|---|
| ح و ض (ḥ w ḍ) |
| 1 term |
Pronunciation
Noun
حَوْض • (ḥawḍ) m (plural أَحْوَاض (ʔaḥwāḍ) or حِيَاض (ḥiyāḍ) or حِيضَان (ḥīḍān))
Declension
Declension of noun حَوْض (ḥawḍ)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | حَوْض ḥawḍ |
الْحَوْض al-ḥawḍ |
حَوْض ḥawḍ |
| Nominative | حَوْضٌ ḥawḍun |
الْحَوْضُ al-ḥawḍu |
حَوْضُ ḥawḍu |
| Accusative | حَوْضًا ḥawḍan |
الْحَوْضَ al-ḥawḍa |
حَوْضَ ḥawḍa |
| Genitive | حَوْضٍ ḥawḍin |
الْحَوْضِ al-ḥawḍi |
حَوْضِ ḥawḍi |
| Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
| Informal | حَوْضَيْن ḥawḍayn |
الْحَوْضَيْن al-ḥawḍayn |
حَوْضَيْ ḥawḍay |
| Nominative | حَوْضَانِ ḥawḍāni |
الْحَوْضَانِ al-ḥawḍāni |
حَوْضَا ḥawḍā |
| Accusative | حَوْضَيْنِ ḥawḍayni |
الْحَوْضَيْنِ al-ḥawḍayni |
حَوْضَيْ ḥawḍay |
| Genitive | حَوْضَيْنِ ḥawḍayni |
الْحَوْضَيْنِ al-ḥawḍayni |
حَوْضَيْ ḥawḍay |
| Plural | basic broken plural triptote | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | أَحْوَاض; حِيَاض; حِيضَان ʔaḥwāḍ; ḥiyāḍ; ḥīḍān |
الْأَحْوَاض; الْحِيَاض; الْحِيضَان al-ʔaḥwāḍ; al-ḥiyāḍ; al-ḥīḍān |
أَحْوَاض; حِيَاض; حِيضَان ʔaḥwāḍ; ḥiyāḍ; ḥīḍān |
| Nominative | أَحْوَاضٌ; حِيَاضٌ; حِيضَانٌ ʔaḥwāḍun; ḥiyāḍun; ḥīḍānun |
الْأَحْوَاضُ; الْحِيَاضُ; الْحِيضَانُ al-ʔaḥwāḍu; al-ḥiyāḍu; al-ḥīḍānu |
أَحْوَاضُ; حِيَاضُ; حِيضَانُ ʔaḥwāḍu; ḥiyāḍu; ḥīḍānu |
| Accusative | أَحْوَاضًا; حِيَاضًا; حِيضَانًا ʔaḥwāḍan; ḥiyāḍan; ḥīḍānan |
الْأَحْوَاضَ; الْحِيَاضَ; الْحِيضَانَ al-ʔaḥwāḍa; al-ḥiyāḍa; al-ḥīḍāna |
أَحْوَاضَ; حِيَاضَ; حِيضَانَ ʔaḥwāḍa; ḥiyāḍa; ḥīḍāna |
| Genitive | أَحْوَاضٍ; حِيَاضٍ; حِيضَانٍ ʔaḥwāḍin; ḥiyāḍin; ḥīḍānin |
الْأَحْوَاضِ; الْحِيَاضِ; الْحِيضَانِ al-ʔaḥwāḍi; al-ḥiyāḍi; al-ḥīḍāni |
أَحْوَاضِ; حِيَاضِ; حِيضَانِ ʔaḥwāḍi; ḥiyāḍi; ḥīḍāni |
Descendants
- Gulf Arabic: حوض (ḥōḏ̣)
- Maltese: ħawt
- → Azerbaijani: hovuz, hövz (Classical Azerbaijani)
- ⇒ Azerbaijani: hövzə
- → Avar: хӏавуз (ḥʳawuz)
- → Bengali: হাউজ (hauz)
- → Hindustani:
- → Kazakh: хауыз (xauyz)
- → Khalaj: havuz
- → Pashto: حوض
- → Persian: حوض (howz)
- → Khalaj: hovz
- ⇒ Persian: حوضه (howze)
- → Ottoman Turkish: حوض (havz, havuz)
- ⇒ Ottoman Turkish: حوضه (havza)
- Turkish: havza
- → Punjabi: حَوض (ḥauẓ)
- → Sindhi: حَوْضُ
- → Tajik: ҳавз (havz)
- → Turkmen: howuz
- → Uyghur: ھاۋۇز (hawuz), ھاۋز (hawz)
- → Uzbek: havz, hovuz
- ⇒ Uzbek: havza
References
- Freytag, Georg (1830) “حوض”, 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 443
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “حوض”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 304–305
Gulf Arabic
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
حوض • (ḥōḏ̣) m (dual حوضين (ḥōḏ̣ēn), plural احواض (aḥwāḏ̣))
- swimming pool
- Synonyms: مسبح (masbaḥ), حمام سباحة (ḥammām sibāḥa)
- pelvis
Hijazi Arabic
| Root |
|---|
| ح و ض |
| 1 term |
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
حوض • (ḥōḍ) m (dual حوضين (ḥōḍēn), plural أحواض (ʔaḥwāḍ))
Khalaj
Etymology 1
Noun
حَوُض (havuz) (definite accusative حَوُضوُ, plural حَوُضلار)
Declension
Declension of حوض
Etymology 2
Noun
حُوض (hovz) (definite accusative حُوضوُ, plural حُوضلار)
Declension
Declension of حوض
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ, “basin, pool”).
Noun
حوض • (havz or havuz) (definite accusative حوضی (havzı, havuzu), plural احواض (ehvâz) or حیاض (hiyâz))
- pool, water tank, reservoir, any artifical basin for storing fresh water
- Synonym: بركه (birke)
Derived terms
- بوستان حوضی (bostan havuzu, “a reservoir or pool in a garden”)
- حمام حوضی (hamam havuzu, “a pool in a hammam”)
- حوض الحمار (havz el-himâr, “sorry fellow”, literally “a donkey's trough”)
- حوض الرسول (havz el-resul, “the tank in Paradise of which all the Blessed will drink”)
- حوض ترسا (havz-ı tersa, “vat in which wine is fermented”)
- حوض رسمی (havuz resmi, “pool or reservoir right”)
- حوض ماهی (havz-ı mâhi, “fishing pond”)
- حوض موت (havz-ı mevt, “death, the waters of Lethe”)
- حوضجق (havzcık, havuzcuk, “little pool or basin”)
- حوضلانمق (havzlanmak, havuzlanmak, “to become a tank”)
- حوضلو (havzlı, havuzlu, “provided with a pool”)
- حوضی (havzî, “pertaining to a tank or pool”)
- لیمان حوضی (liman havuzu, “a tabk or pool by a port”)
Descendants
- Turkish: havuz
- → Arabic: هَوِيس (hawīs), هَاوِيس (hāwīs)
- → Armenian: (Constantinople) հավուզ (havuz), (Van) ավուզ (avuz)
- → Georgian: აუზი (auzi)
- → Greek: χαβούζα (chavoúza)
- → Ladino: havuz
- → Laz: ჰავუზი (havuzi)
- → Romanian: havuz
- → Ubykh: х'абзы (x̣abzə)
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “حوض”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 673
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “havuz1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1908
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “حوض”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 202b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حوض”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 522
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Piscina”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1303
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حوض”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1821
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “havuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حوض”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 812
Pashto
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).
Noun
حَوض • (transliteration needed) m
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).
Pronunciation
| Dari | حوض |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | ҳавз |
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | hawz |
| Dari reading? | hawz |
| Iranian reading? | howz |
| Tajik reading? | havz |
Noun
حوض • (howz) (plural حوض‌ها (howz-hâ))
- basin, pool, tank (usually artificial)
- c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]:
- اندر ساحت مسجد سنگی بزرگ نهاده و حوضی سنگین مدور، عظیم بزرگ، بر سر آن نهاده.
- andar sāhat-i masjid sangē buzurg nihadā u hawzē sangēn mudawwar, azīm buzurg, bar sar-i ān nihāda.
- A large stone is placed in the courtyard of this mosque, and a spherical water basin of stone, large and grand, is placed on top of that.
Derived terms
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).
Noun
حَوض • (ḥauẓ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਹੌਜ਼)
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “حَوض”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
Sindhi
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).
Noun
حَوْضُ • (hauzu) m (Devanagari हौज़ु)
Further reading
- Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “حَوْضُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
- “حوض”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɦɔːz/
Noun
حَوض • (hauz) m (Hindi spelling हौज़)
- reservoir, cistern, pond, pool, tank, vat, trough, basin of a fountain, a fountain
Further reading
- “حوض”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “حوض”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “حوض”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.