See و in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "لَا تَأْكُلِ السَّمَكَ وَتَشْرَبَ اللَّبَنَ",
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"text": "لَا تَنْهَ عَنْ خُلُقٍ وَتَأْتِيَ مِثْلَهُ",
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"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:43:",
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"text": "لَا تَقْرَبُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَأَنْتُمْ سُكَارَى",
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"text": "وَإِذْ قَالَ لُقْمَانُ لِٱبْنِهِ وَهُوَ يَعِظُهُ يَا بُنَيَّ لَا تُشْرِكْ بِٱللّٰهِۖ إِنَّ ٱلشِّرْكَ لَظُلْمٌ عَظِيمٌ",
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"roman": "lā taʔkuli s-samaka wa-tašraba l-labana",
"text": "لَا تَأْكُلِ السَّمَكَ وَتَشْرَبَ اللَّبَنَ",
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"text": "لَا تَنْهَ عَنْ خُلُقٍ وَتَأْتِيَ مِثْلَهُ",
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"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:43:",
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"text": "لَا تَقْرَبُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَأَنْتُمْ سُكَارَى",
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"roman": "waʔiḏ qāla luqmānu libnihi wahuwa yaʕiẓuhu yā bunayya lā tušrik bi-l-lāhi ʔinna š-širka laẓulmun ʕaẓīmun",
"text": "وَإِذْ قَالَ لُقْمَانُ لِٱبْنِهِ وَهُوَ يَعِظُهُ يَا بُنَيَّ لَا تُشْرِكْ بِٱللّٰهِۖ إِنَّ ٱلشِّرْكَ لَظُلْمٌ عَظِيمٌ",
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"expansion": "ـَوـ • (-aw-)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Arabic",
"lang_code": "ar",
"pos": "interfix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
],
"glosses": [
"interfix used in forming nisba (relative) adjectives, particularly with short bases, inserted between the base noun and the ending ِـيّ (-iyy), e.g. لُغَوِيّ (luḡawiyy, “linguistic”), based on لُغَة (luḡa, “language”), or ثَانَوِيّ (ṯānawiyy, “secondary”), based on ثَانٍ (ṯānin, “second”)."
],
"links": [
[
"interfix",
"interfix"
],
[
"nisba",
"nisba"
],
[
"ِـيّ",
"ي#Arabic"
],
[
"لُغَوِيّ",
"لغوي#Arabic"
],
[
"linguistic",
"linguistic"
],
[
"لُغَة",
"لغة#Arabic"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"ثَانَوِيّ",
"ثانوي#Arabic"
],
[
"secondary",
"secondary"
],
[
"ثَانٍ",
"ثان#Arabic"
],
[
"second",
"second"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "و"
}
Download raw JSONL data for و meaning in Arabic (14.8kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: no case",
"path": [
"و"
],
"section": "Arabic",
"subsection": "letter",
"title": "و",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: with a following accusative",
"path": [
"و"
],
"section": "Arabic",
"subsection": "preposition",
"title": "و",
"trace": ""
}
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