ح و ي

ح و ي • (ḥ-w-y)

1. related to fathoming, writhing and coiling

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)
  • Verbal noun: حَوًى‎ (ḥawan), حُوَّةٌ‎ (ḥuwwatun)
• Form II: حَوَّى‎ (ḥawwā, “to contract, retract or fold”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحْوِيَة‎ (taḥwiya)
  • Active participle: مُحَوٍّ‎ (muḥawwin)
  • Passive participle: مُحَوًّى‎ (muḥawwan)
• Form V: تَحَوَّى‎ (taḥawwā, “(reflexive) to contract, recoil, ply, roll”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحَوٍّ‎ (taḥawwin)
  • Active participle: مُتَحَوٍّ‎ (mutaḥawwin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَحَوًّى‎ (mutaḥawwan)
• Form VIII: اِحْتَوَى‎ (iḥtawā, “(with على‎ or ه‎ (h)) to contain, encompass, entail, include”)
  • Verbal noun: اِحْتِوَاء‎ (iḥtiwāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُحْتَوٍ‎ (muḥtawin)
  • Passive participle: مُحْتَوًى‎ (muḥtawan, “content”)
• Form IX: اِحْوَوَى‎ (iḥwawā)
  • Verbal noun: اِحْوِوَاء‎ (iḥwiwāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُحْوَوٍ‎ (muḥwawin)
• Form XI: اِحْوَاوَى‎ (iḥwāwā)
  • Verbal noun: اِحْوِيوَاء‎ (iḥwīwāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُحْوَاوٍ‎ (muḥwāwin)

Nouns and adjectives

• أَحْوى‎ (adjective), feminine حَوَّاء‎ (ḥawwāʔ)
• ضَرْبَة اِحْتِوَائِيَّة‎ (ḍarba(t) iḥtiwāʔiyya)
• حَاوٍ‎ (ḥāwin, “snake charmer”)
  • اَلْحَاوِي لَا يَنْجُو مِنَ الْحَيَّاتِ‎ (al-ḥāwī lā yanjū mina l-ḥayyāti, proverb)
• 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”)

• Corriente, Federico (2005), “ح و ي”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 281