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ءو

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to concepts of hardship, difficulty, and distress. It can also refer to a severe or formidable situation, often described as a calamity.

Derived headwords

أَوَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    calamityclassical

    A severe misfortune or disaster, a great hardship.

الأَوُّnoun
  1. 1.
    calamityclassical

    A formidable or severe calamity, a great distress.

الأَوَىnoun
  1. 1.
    calamityclassical

    A severe hardship or distress, a calamity.

Parallel reading

يقال ما هو إلا} أوة من {الأوو يافتى؟
It is said, 'What is he but a calamity from the calamities, O youth?'
أي داهية من الدواهي؛
Meaning, what calamity from the calamities;
حين جعلوا الواو كالحرف الصحيح في موضع الإعراب فقالوا الأوو، بالواو الصحيحة،
when they treated the waw as a sound letter in the case-ending position and said 'al-awwu', with a sound waw,
والقياس في ذلك الأوى مثل قوة وقوى،
and the analogy for that is 'al-awa' like 'quwwa' and 'quwa',
ولكن حكي هذا الحرف محفوظا عن العرب.
but this word has been transmitted as heard from the Arabs.