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Root entry · 23 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns concepts of falling, descent, and emptiness, extending to related ideas like death, desire, and love. It also encompasses notions of air, void, and the act of falling or causing something to fall.

Derived headwords

الهواءnoun

1.
airboth
The atmosphere or the sky.
2.
emptinessboth
Any empty space, like a chasm or abyss.

الجوnoun

1.
atmosphereboth
The air or sky.

المهواةnoun

1.
abyssboth
A deep chasm or void.

الهوةnoun

1.
chasmboth
A deep gap or void.

الأهويةnoun

1.
abyssesboth
Plural of abyss or chasm.

الهاويةnoun

1.
abyssboth
A deep chasm or void.
2.
hellboth
Hell, a place of punishment.

الجبانadjective

1.
cowardlyboth
A person who is cowardly, often associated with emptiness or lack of spirit.

العشقnoun

1.
loveboth
Intense love or passion, which can be for good or evil.

إرادة النفسnoun

1.
desire of the soulboth
The will or desire of one's own soul or self.

المهويnoun

1.
that which causes fallingclassical
Something that causes a fall or descent.

هوتverb

1.
opened wideclassical
Said of a wound, meaning it opened its mouth.

هويverb

1.
to fallboth
To descend from a higher place to a lower one.
2.
to dieboth
To pass away or perish.
3.
to descend uponclassical
Said of a bird of prey, to swoop down on prey.

أهوىverb

1.
to fallboth
To cause to fall or descend.
2.
to reach outboth
To extend one's hand towards something.
3.
to blowclassical
Said of the wind, to blow strongly.

انهوىverb

1.
to fall downboth
To fall down from a high place.

يهويverb

1.
to fallboth
To descend from a higher place to a lower one.

هوياناnoun

1.
a fallclassical
A descent from a high place to a low one.

هوةnoun

1.
ascentclassical
The act of ascending or rising.

الهويnoun

1.
ascentclassical
The act of ascending or rising.
2.
descentclassical
The act of descending or falling.

هواهverb

1.
to loveboth
To love someone deeply.

استهواهverb

1.
to lead astrayboth
To lead someone astray by their desires or intellect.
2.
to confuseclassical
To cause someone to be bewildered or confused.
3.
to adorn desireclassical
To make one's desires seem attractive or appealing.

الهاويnoun

1.
locustclassical
A type of insect, a locust.

تهواءnoun

1.
part of the nightclassical
A period or hour of the night.

أهوىname

1.
place nameclassical
A place name, possibly referring to a market or region.

Parallel reading

الهواء: الجو، كالمهواة والهوة والأهوية والهاوية، وكل فارغ، والجبان، وبالقصر: العشق يكون في الخير والشر، وإرادة النفس، والمهوي.

Air: the sky, like a chasm, a void, abysses, and hell, and every emptiness, and the coward, and by shortening: love which is in good and evil, the desire of the soul, and that which causes falling.

وهوت الطعنة: فتحت فاها

And the wound gaped: it opened its mouth.

والعقاب هويا: انقضت على صيد أو غيره

And the eagle swooped: it pounced on prey or other.

والشيء: سقط، كأهوى وانهوى

And a thing: fell, like 'ahwā' and 'inhawā'.

ويدي له: امتدت، وارتفعت، كأهوت

And my hand extended to it: it stretched out, and rose, like 'ahwat'.

والريح: هبت

And the wind: blew.

وفلان: مات

And so-and-so: died.

وهويا، بالفتح والضم، وهويانا: سقط من علو إلى سفل، كانهوى

And he fell, with fath and damma, and 'hawayān': he fell from high to low, like 'inhawā'.

والرجل هوة، بالضم: صعد، وارتفع.

And the man ascended, with damma: he climbed, and rose.

أو الهوي، بالفتح: للإصعاد، والهوي، بالضم: للانحدار.

Or 'al-hawī', with fath: is for ascending, and 'al-hawī', with damma: is for descending.

وهويه، كرضيه، هوى، فهو: هو: أحبه.

And he loved him, like 'raḍīhi', 'hawā', so he is: he: loved him.

{استهوته الشياطين}: ذهبت بهواه وعقله، أو استهامته وحيرته، أو زينت له هواه.

{The devils led him astray}: they took away his desire and his mind, or they made him wander and confused, or they adorned his desire for him.

والهاوي: الجراد.

And the 'hāwī': the locust.

وهاوية والهاوية: جهنم، أعاذنا الله منها.

And 'hawiyah' and 'al-hāwiyah': Hell, may God protect us from it.

وهوي، كغني ويضم، وتهواء من الليل: ساعة.

And 'huwī', like 'ghanī' and with damma, and 'tahwā'' of the night: an hour.

وأهوى، وسوقة أهوى، ودارة أهوى: مواضع.

And 'Aḥwā', and 'Sūqat Aḥwā'', and 'Dārat Aḥwā'': places.