سماوة

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Root
س م و (s-m-w)

Noun[edit]

سَمَاوَة or سَمَاءَة (samāwa or samāʔaf (singulative, collective سَمَاو f (samāw) or سَمَاء f (samāʔ), dual سَمَاوَتَان (samāwatān) or سَمَاءَتَان (samāʔatān), plural سَمَاوَات (samāwāt) or سَمَاءَات (samāʔāt) or أَسْمِيَة (ʔasmiya) or سُمِيّ (sumiyy)) (countable, formal, literary, rare or archaic or obsolete or Old Arabic)

  1. loftiness, highness, exaltedness
  2. singulative of سَمَاء (samāʔ, skies, celestial spheres, firmaments, vaults, cielings, Arabian horsesbacks, mountaintops, summits, grass); a sky, a celestial sphere, a firmament, a vault, a cieling, an Arabian horse’s back, a mountaintop, a summit, a piece of grass.
  3. rise, appearance.
  4. Samaawah; a city in Iraq.

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Bilbography[edit]

Lisan al-Arab

Noun[edit]

سَمَاوَة (samāwaf

  1. (uncountable, informal, colloquial, dialectal) eponymy; the state of sharing the same name.