ساهور
Arabic
Etymology
Borrowed from a variant *ܣܳܗܽܘܪܴܐ (*sāhūrā) of Classical Syriac ܣܱܗܪܴܐ (sahrā, “moon”). Doublet of شَهْر (šahr, “month”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saː.huːr/
Noun
سَاهُور • (sāhūr) m
- the sheath of the moon when it enters an eclipse after a saros
- Coordinate term: (the surface of the earth) سَاهِرَة (sāhira)
Declension
Declension of noun سَاهُور (sāhūr)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | سَاهُور sāhūr | السَّاهُور as-sāhūr | سَاهُور sāhūr |
| Nominative | سَاهُورٌ sāhūrun | السَّاهُورُ as-sāhūru | سَاهُورُ sāhūru |
| Accusative | سَاهُورًا sāhūran | السَّاهُورَ as-sāhūra | سَاهُورَ sāhūra |
| Genitive | سَاهُورٍ sāhūrin | السَّاهُورِ as-sāhūri | سَاهُورِ sāhūri |
References
- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 285
- Freytag, Georg (1833), “ساهور”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 369
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ساهور”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1156
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “ساهور”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1452