ساهور

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from a variant *ܣܳܗܽܘܪܴܐ (*sāhūrā) of Classical Syriac ܣܱܗܪܴܐ (sahrā, “moon”). Doublet of شَهْر (šahr, “month”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saː.huːr/

Noun

سَاهُور • (sāhūr) m

1. the sheath of the moon when it enters an eclipse after a saros

   Coordinate term: (the surface of the earth) سَاهِرَة (sāhira)

Declension

Declension of noun سَاهُور (sāhūr)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَاهُور sāhūr	السَّاهُور as-sāhūr	سَاهُور sāhūr
Nominative	سَاهُورٌ sāhūrun	السَّاهُورُ as-sāhūru	سَاهُورُ sāhūru
Accusative	سَاهُورًا sāhūran	السَّاهُورَ as-sāhūra	سَاهُورَ sāhūra
Genitive	سَاهُورٍ sāhūrin	السَّاهُورِ as-sāhūri	سَاهُورِ sāhūri

References

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 285
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ساهور”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 369
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ساهور”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1156
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ساهور”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1452