نسوة

• IPA^(key): /nis.wa/, /nus.wa/

نِسْوَة or نُسْوَة • (niswa or nuswa) pl

1. plural of اِمْرَأَة (imraʔa)
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:30:

     قَالَ نِسْوَةٌ فِي ٱلْمَدِينَةِ ٱمْرَأَتُ ٱلْعَزِيزِ تُرَاوِدُ فَتَاهَا عَن نَفْسِهِ قَدْ شَغَفَهَا حُبًّا إِنَّا لَنَرَاهَا فِي ضَلَالٍ مُبِينٍ

     qāla niswatun fī l-madīnati mraʔatu l-ʕazīzi turāwidu fatāhā ʕan nafsihi qad šaḡafahā ḥubban ʔinnā lanarāhā fī ḍalālin mubīnin

     And women in the city said: The ruler's wife is asking of her slave-boy an ill-deed. Indeed he has smitten her to the heart with love. We behold her in plain aberration".

• نِسْوِيّ (niswiyy), نِسْوِيَّة (niswiyya)