روح

From Proto-West Semitic *rūḥ-. Cognate with Hebrew רוּחַ‎ (rúakh).

• IPA^(key): /ruːħ/

رُوح • (rūḥ) m or f (plural أَرْوَاح‎ (ʔarwāḥ))

1. spirit (all senses), ghost
2. soul, essence, core or essential aspect required for being
3. life; spark of life, breath of life
4. breath, movement of air
5. motivation, energy, inspiration; the means to be animate or living
6. gun barrel

• رَاحَة الْأَرْوَاح‎ (rāḥat al-ʔarwāḥ)

• → Azerbaijani: ruh
• → Malay: roh
  • Indonesian: roh
• Maltese: ruħ
• → Persian: روح‎
  • → Bengali: রূহ (ruho)
  • → Hindi: रूह (rūh)
  • → Urdu: روح‎
• → Swahili: roho
• → Turkish: ruh
• → Uzbek: ruh
• → Zazaki: ruh, roh

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “روح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /rawħ/

رَوْح • (rawḥ) m

1. refreshment

Borrowed from Arabic رُوح‎ (rūḥ, “soul, spirit”).

روح • (ruh) (plural ارواح‎)

1. soul, the spirit of a person that lives on after one's death

   Synonyms: اوز‎ (öz), تن‎ (tin), جان‎ (can), زات‎ (zat), نفس‎ (nefes)

2. soul, core, pith, kernel, marrow, essence of a thing

   Synonyms: اوز‎ (öz), لب‎ (lubb), مغز‎ (mağz)

3. vitality, vivacity, liveliness, animation, energy
4. name of a certain angel or class of angels

• Turkish: ruh

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “ruh”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3979
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “روح”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 630
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Anima”, 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 62
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “روح”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2377
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ruh”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “روح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 992

From Arabic رُوح‎ (rūḥ).

روح • (ruh) (plural ارواح‎ (arvâh) or روح‌ها‎ (ruh-hâ))

1. spirit
2. soul
3. essence
4. ghost

• روان‎ (ravân)

• روحی‎ (ruhi)
• روحانی‎ (ruhâni)
• روحیه‎ (ruhiye)

• IPA^(key): /raw.waħ/, [ˈraw.wɑħ]

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روّح • (rawwaḥ) (form II, present بروّح‎ (birawweḥ), active participle مروّح‎ (mrawweḥ))

1. to return, to go home

   ‏شو رايك السبت تروّح معنا ع حيفا وتضلّك أسبوع؟‎‎

   šū rāyak is-sabt trawweḥ maʕna ʕa ḥēfa w-tḍallak ʔusbūʕ

   What do you say on Saturday you come back with us to Haifa and stay for a week?

• رجع‎ (rijiʕ, “to return”), عاد‎ (ʕād, “to return”)

From Arabic رُوح‎ (rūḥ).

• IPA^(key): /roːħ/, [roːħ]

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روح • (rōḥ) f (plural أرواح‎ (ʔarwāḥ))

1. spirit, soul

• طويل الروح‎ (ṭawīl ir-rūḥ, “patient”, adj.)

Borrowed from Classical Persian روح‎ (rūḥ), from Arabic رُوح‎ (rūḥ, “spirit”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾuːɦ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /ɾuːɦ/
• Rhymes: -uːɦ

رُوح • (rūḥ) f (Hindi spelling रूह)

1. soul, spirit

   Synonym: آتما‎ (ātma)

2. essence, quintessence

• “روح”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “روح”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.