ض و ي
Arabic
Root
ض و ي • (ḍ-w-y)
- related to retreating to something small
Derived terms
- Form I: ضَوَى (ḍawā, “to have recourse, to retreat, to seek refuge; to inform oneself of a fuss”)
- Verbal noun: ضَيّ (ḍayy), ضُوِيّ (ḍuwiyy)
- Active participle: ضَاوٍ (ḍāwin)
- Passive participle: مَضْوِيّ (maḍwiyy)
- Form I: ضَوِيَ (ḍawiya, “to be or become macilent”)
- Verbal noun: ضَوًى (ḍawan)
- Active participle: ضَاوٍ (ḍāwin)
- Passive participle: مَضْوِيّ (maḍwiyy)
- Form IV: أَضْوَى (ʾaḍwā, “to be scrawny; to give forth or give birth to in a macilent form; to render scrawny, to debilitate”)
- Verbal noun: إِضْوَاء (ʾiḍwāʾ)
- Active participle: مُضْوٍ (muḍwin)
- Passive participle: مُضْوًى (muḍwan)
- Form VII: اِنْضَوَى (inḍawā, “to retreat”)
- Verbal noun: اِنْضِوَاء (inḍiwāʾ)
- Active participle: مُنْضَوٍ (munḍawin)
- ضَوَاة (ḍawāh, “a fuss, a call; tumour”)
- ضَاوِيّ (ḍāwiyy, “of meagre bones”)
- ضَاوِيَّة (ḍāwiyya, “tenuity, meagreness of bones”)
References
- “ضوي” in Almaany
- Freytag, Georg (1835) , “ض و ي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 33a
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) , “ض و ي”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 46a–b
- Wehr, Hans (1979) , “ض و ي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 639–640