رواح

See also: زواج

Arabic

Root
ر و ح (r w ḥ)
23 terms

Etymology

Verbal noun of رَاحَ (rāḥa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra.waːħ/

Noun

رَوَاح • (rawāḥ) m

1. verbal noun of رَاحَ (rāḥa) (form I)
2. evening, time between sunset and night

   Synonym: عَشِيِّ (ʕašiyyi)

   Coordinate terms: صَبَاح (ṣabāḥ), صُبْح (ṣubḥ)

   يَا أَبَا ذَر: مَا مِن صَبَاحٍ وَلَا رَوَاحٍ إِلَّا وَبِقَاع الَارْضِ يُنَادِي بَعْضَهَا بَعْضَا

   Oh Abu Dharr! No morning or evening pass without every corner on earth calling one another. (part of a Hadith)

3. evening journey

   Coordinate term: غُدُوّ (ḡuduww)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 34:12:

     وَلِسُلَيْمَـٰنَ ٱلرِّيحَ غُدُوُّهَا شَهْرٌۭ وَرَوَاحُهَا شَهْرٌۭ ۖ

     And to Solomon ˹We subjected˺ the wind: its morning stride was a month’s journey and so was its evening stride.

Declension

Declension of noun رَوَاح (rawāḥ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	رَوَاح rawāḥ	الرَّوَاح ar-rawāḥ	رَوَاح rawāḥ
Nominative	رَوَاحٌ rawāḥun	الرَّوَاحُ ar-rawāḥu	رَوَاحُ rawāḥu
Accusative	رَوَاحًا rawāḥan	الرَّوَاحَ ar-rawāḥa	رَوَاحَ rawāḥa
Genitive	رَوَاحٍ rawāḥin	الرَّوَاحِ ar-rawāḥi	رَوَاحِ rawāḥi

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَوَاح (rawāḥ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾa.ˈwɑːh]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rä.wɑ́ːʱ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rä.wɑ́ːʱ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [rä.wɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [rä.wɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹæ.vɒ́ːʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾä.vɔ́ʱ]

Readings
Classical reading?	rawāh
Dari reading?	rawāh
Iranian reading?	ravâh
Tajik reading?	ravoh

Noun

رواح • (ravâh)

1. (obsolete) evening
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 98”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     لب چو آب حیات تو هست قوت جان
     وجود خاکی ما را از اوست ذکر رواح

     lab-i čū āb-i hayāt-i tu hast quwwat-i jān
     wujūd-i xākī-yi mā rā az ō-st zikr-i rawāh

     Your lips like the Water of Life are the strength of my soul;
     The evening mystical prayers of my earthly being are from them.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “رواح”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim