حوض

Arabic

Root
ح و ض (ḥ-w-ḍ)

حَوْض

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħawdˤ/

Noun

حَوْض • (ḥawḍ) m (plural أَحْوَاض (ʔaḥwāḍ) or حِيَاض (ḥiyāḍ) or حِيضَان (ḥīḍān))

1. basin, pool, tank
2. pelvis

Declension

Declension of noun حَوْض (ḥawḍ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَوْض ḥawḍ	الْحَوْض al-ḥawḍ	حَوْض ḥawḍ
Nominative	حَوْضٌ ḥawḍun	الْحَوْضُ al-ḥawḍu	حَوْضُ ḥawḍu
Accusative	حَوْضًا ḥawḍan	الْحَوْضَ al-ḥawḍa	حَوْضَ ḥawḍa
Genitive	حَوْضٍ ḥawḍin	الْحَوْضِ al-ḥawḍi	حَوْضِ ḥawḍi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَوْضَيْن ḥawḍayn	الْحَوْضَيْن al-ḥawḍayn	حَوْضَيْ ḥawḍay
Nominative	حَوْضَانِ ḥawḍāni	الْحَوْضَانِ al-ḥawḍāni	حَوْضَا ḥawḍā
Accusative	حَوْضَيْنِ ḥawḍayni	الْحَوْضَيْنِ al-ḥawḍayni	حَوْضَيْ ḥawḍay
Genitive	حَوْضَيْنِ ḥawḍayni	الْحَوْضَيْنِ al-ḥawḍayni	حَوْضَيْ ḥawḍay
Plural	basic broken plural triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَحْوَاض‎; حِيَاض‎; حِيضَان ʔaḥwāḍ‎; ḥiyāḍ‎; ḥīḍān	الْأَحْوَاض‎; الْحِيَاض‎; الْحِيضَان al-ʔaḥwāḍ‎; al-ḥiyāḍ‎; al-ḥīḍān	أَحْوَاض‎; حِيَاض‎; حِيضَان ʔaḥwāḍ‎; ḥiyāḍ‎; ḥīḍān
Nominative	أَحْوَاضٌ‎; حِيَاضٌ‎; حِيضَانٌ ʔaḥwāḍun‎; ḥiyāḍun‎; ḥīḍānun	الْأَحْوَاضُ‎; الْحِيَاضُ‎; الْحِيضَانُ al-ʔaḥwāḍu‎; al-ḥiyāḍu‎; al-ḥīḍānu	أَحْوَاضُ‎; حِيَاضُ‎; حِيضَانُ ʔaḥwāḍu‎; ḥiyāḍu‎; ḥīḍānu
Accusative	أَحْوَاضًا‎; حِيَاضًا‎; حِيضَانًا ʔaḥwāḍan‎; ḥiyāḍan‎; ḥīḍānan	الْأَحْوَاضَ‎; الْحِيَاضَ‎; الْحِيضَانَ al-ʔaḥwāḍa‎; al-ḥiyāḍa‎; al-ḥīḍāna	أَحْوَاضَ‎; حِيَاضَ‎; حِيضَانَ ʔaḥwāḍa‎; ḥiyāḍa‎; ḥīḍāna
Genitive	أَحْوَاضٍ‎; حِيَاضٍ‎; حِيضَانٍ ʔaḥwāḍin‎; ḥiyāḍin‎; ḥīḍānin	الْأَحْوَاضِ‎; الْحِيَاضِ‎; الْحِيضَانِ al-ʔaḥwāḍi‎; al-ḥiyāḍi‎; al-ḥīḍāni	أَحْوَاضِ‎; حِيَاضِ‎; حِيضَانِ ʔaḥwāḍi‎; ḥiyāḍi‎; ḥīḍāni

Descendants

• Gulf Arabic: حوض (ḥōḏ̣)
• Maltese: ħawt
• → Azerbaijani: hövz, hovuz
• ⇒ Azerbaijani: hövzə
• → Avar: хӏавуз (ḥʳawuz)
• → Bengali: হাউজ (hauz)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: हौज़ (hauz)
  • Urdu: حَوض (hauz)
• → Kazakh: хауыз (xauyz)
• → Khalaj: havuz
• → Pashto: حوض
• → Persian: حوض (howz)
  • → Khalaj: hovz
• ⇒ Persian: حوضه (howze)
• → Ottoman Turkish: حوض (havız, havuz)
  • Turkish: havuz
  • → Arabic: هَوِيس (hawīs), هَاوِيس (hāwīs)
  • → Georgian: აუზი (auzi)
  • → Greek: χαβούζα (chavoúza)
  • → Ladino: havuz
  • → Laz: ჰავუზი (havuzi)
  • → Romanian: havuz
  • → Ubykh: х'абзы (x̣abzə)
• ⇒ Ottoman Turkish: حوضه (havza)
  • Turkish: havza
• → Punjabi: حَوض (ḥauẓ)
• → Sindhi: حَوْضُ
• → Tajik: ҳавз (havz)
• → Turkmen: howuz
• → Uyghur: ھاۋۇز (hawuz), ھاۋز (hawz)
• → Uzbek: havz, hovuz
• ⇒ Uzbek: havza

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “حوض”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 443
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “حوض”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 304–305

Gulf Arabic

حوض

Etymology

From Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

Pronunciation

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ħoːðˤ/

Noun

حوض • (ḥōḏ̣) m (dual حوضين (ḥōḏ̣ēn), plural احواض (aḥwāḏ̣))

1. swimming pool

   Synonyms: مسبح (masbaḥ), حمام سباحة (ḥammām sibāḥa)

2. pelvis

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ح و ض
1 term

حوض

Etymology

From Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħoːdˤ/, [ħo̞ːdˤ]

Noun

حوض • (ḥōḍ) m (dual حوضين (ḥōḍēn), plural أحواض (ʔaḥwāḍ))

1. pelvis
2. kitchen sink
3. sink

   Synonym: مِغْسَلَة (miḡsala)

4. aquarium

Khalaj

Etymology 1

Noun

حَوُض (havuz) (definite accusative حَوُضوُ, plural حَوُضلار)

1. Arabic spelling of havuz (“basin, pool”)

Declension

Declension of حوض

	singular	plural
nominative	حوض	حوضلار
genitive	حوضؽݧ	حوضلارؽݧ
dative	حوضقا	حوضلارقا
definite accusative	حوضؽ	حوضلارؽ
locative	حوضچا	حوضلارچا
ablative	حوضدا	حوضلاردا
instrumental	حوضلا	حوضلارلا
equative	حوضوارا	حوضلاروارا

Etymology 2

Noun

حُوض (hovz) (definite accusative حُوضوُ, plural حُوضلار)

1. Arabic spelling of hovz (“basin, pool”)

Declension

Declension of حوض

	singular	plural
nominative	حوض	حوضلار
genitive	حوضؽݧ	حوضلارؽݧ
dative	حوضقا	حوضلارقا
definite accusative	حوضؽ	حوضلارؽ
locative	حوضچا	حوضلارچا
ablative	حوضدا	حوضلاردا
instrumental	حوضلا	حوضلارلا
equative	حوضوارا	حوضلاروارا

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

Noun

حَوض • (transliteration needed) m

1. reservoir

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

Pronunciation

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Dari	حوض
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳавз

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [hawz]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häwz]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häwz]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäwz]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäwz]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [howz]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [häwz]

Readings
Classical reading?	hawz
Dari reading?	hawz
Iranian reading?	howz
Tajik reading?	havz

Noun

حوض • (howz) (plural حوض‌ها (howz-hâ))

1. basin, pool, tank (usually artificial)
   • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎^[3]:

     اندر ساحت مسجد سنگی بزرگ نهاده و حوضی سنگین مدور، عظیم بزرگ، بر سر آن نهاده.

     andar sāhat-i masjid sangē buzurg nihadā u hawzē sangēn mudawwar, azīm buzurg, bar sar-i ān nihāda.

     A large stone is placed in the courtyard of this mosque, and a spherical water basin of stone, large and grand, is placed on top of that.

Derived terms

• حوضه (howze)
• حوضچه (howzče)
• حوضک (howzak)
• حوض‌خانه (howz-xâne)

 

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

Noun

حَوض • (ḥauẓ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਹੌਜ਼)

1. reservoir

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “حَوض”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

Noun

حَوْضُ • (hauzu) m (Devanagari हौज़ु)

1. reservoir

Further reading

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “حَوْضُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “حوض”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866-1938

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦɔːz/

Noun

حَوض • (hauz) m (Hindi spelling हौज़)

1. reservoir, cistern, pond, pool, tank, vat, trough, basin of a fountain, a fountain

Further reading

• “حوض”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “حوض”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “حوض”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.