قرينة

Arabic

Etymology

From قَرَنَ (qarana, to unite).

Noun

قَرِينَة • (qarīna) f (plural قَرِينَات (qarīnāt) or قَرَائِن (qarāʔin))

  1. wife, spouse, consort, helpmate, helpmeet
    السيدَة قرينته (as-sayyidit qarīntuh) — his wife (formal)
  2. a demon that haunts women during the final stages of pregnancy
  3. (pathology) eclampsia
  4. connection, conjunction, union, relation, affiliation, association, link, linkage
  5. tie-in, relationship, liaison, linkup, nexus, yoke, connectedness, contact
  6. concern, relevance
  7. (linguistics) coherence, context
  8. evidence, indication, indicia

Declension

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