سماوة

Arabic

Root
س م و (s-m-w)

Noun

سَمَاوَة or سَمَاءَة • (samāwa or samāʔa) f (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.

Declension

Alternative forms

  • سَمَاءَة (samāʔa)

Bilbography

Lisan al-Arab

Noun

سَمَاوَة • (samāwa) f

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