سلوى

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sal.waː/

Etymology 1

Root
س ل و (s-l-w)

Compare Hebrew שַׁלְוָה (šalwɔ̂).

Noun

سَلْوَى • (salwā) f

  1. joy, happiness, satisfaction
Declension

Etymology 2

From Aramaic or Classical Syriac ܣܠܘܝ (salway, quail).

Noun

سَلْوَى • (salwā) m (collective, singulative سَلْوَاة f (salwāh), plural سَلَاوَى (salāwā))

  1. quails
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:57:
      وَظَلَّلۡنَا عَلَيۡكُمُ ٱلۡغَمَامَ وَأَنزَلۡنَا عَلَيۡكُمُ ٱلۡمَنَّ وَٱلسَّلۡوَىٰ ۖ كُلُوا۟ مِن طَيِّبَـٰتِ مَا رَزَقۡنَـٰكُمۡ ۚ وَمَا ظَلَمُونَا وَلَـٰكِن كَانُوۤا۟ أَنفُسَهُمۡ يَظۡلِمُونَ
      waẓallalnā ʕalaykumu l-ḡamāma waʔanzalnā ʕalaykumu l-manna was-salwā kulū min ṭayyibāti mā razaqnākum wamā ẓalamūnā walākin kānū ʔanfusahum yaẓlimūna
      And We shaded you with clouds and sent down to you manna and quails, [saying], "Eat from the good things with which We have provided you." And they wronged Us not - but they were [only] wronging themselves.
Declension

Proper noun

سَلْوَى • (salwā) f

  1. a female given name
Declension

Proper noun

سَلْوَى • (salwā) f

  1. An area in Hawally, Kuwait.
Declension

References

  • slw”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • slwy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Ahrens, Karl (1930) “Christliches im Qoran. Eine Nachlese”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 84, page 25
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 24
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 177–178
  • Lagarde, Paul de (1889) Übersicht über die im Aramäischen, Arabischen und Hebräischen übliche Bildung der Nomina (Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen; 35) (in German), Göttingen: Dieterichsche Verlags-Buchhandlung, page 190, by means of erroneous reasoning assumed the opposite direction
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