هويس

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ha.wiːs/

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Noun

هَوِيس • (hawīs) m (plural أَهْوِسَة‎ (ʔahwisa) or هَوِيسَات‎ (hawīsāt))

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

Etymology 2

From the root ه وس‎ (h-w-s).

Noun

هَوِيس • (hawīs) m

  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
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