نسوة

• IPA^(key): /nis.wa/, /nus.wa/

نِسْوَة or نُسْوَة • (niswa or nuswa) pl

1. plural of اِمْرَأَة‎ (imraʾa)
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:30:

     ‏قَالَ نِسْوَةٌ فِي ٱلْمَدِينَةِ ٱمْرَأَتُ ٱلْعَزِيزِ تُرَاوِدُ فَتَاهَا عَن نَفْسِهِ قَدْ شَغَفَهَا حُبًّا إِنَّا لَنَرَاهَا فِي ضَلَالٍ مُبِينٍ‎

     qāla niswatun fī l-madīnati mraʾatu l-ʿazīzi turāwidu fatāhā ʿan nafsihi qad šaḡafahā ḥubban ʾinnā lanarāhā fī ḍalālin mubīnin

     And women in the city said: The ruler's wife is asking of her slave-boy an ill-deed. Indeed he has smitten her to the heart with love. We behold her in plain aberration".

• نِسْوِيّ‎ (niswiyy), نِسْوِيَّة‎ (niswiyya)