نحو

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Arabic

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Etymology 1.1

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Root
ن ح و (n ḥ w)
3 terms

The "grammar" sense, according to a report, is derived from ʿAlī telling ʾAbu al-ʾAswad ad-Duʾali, who is believed to be the first Arabic grammarian: «مَا أَحْسَنَ هٰذَا النَّحْوَ الَّذِي نَحَوْتَ» (“mā ʔaḥsana hāḏā an-naḥwa allaḏī naḥawta”, How wonderful this direction (naḥw) that you have followed is)[1] after he showed ʿAlī the grammar he had organized.

Noun

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نَحْو (naḥwm (plural نُحُوّ (nuḥuww) or أَنْحَاء (ʔanḥāʔ))

  1. side, direction
  2. region, tract
  3. road
  4. intention, purpose, tendency
  5. kind, sort, manner
  6. (linguistics, grammar) syntax, grammar
    • Ibn Malik, Alfiyyah
      وَأَسْتَعِينُ اللَّٰهَ فِي أَلْفِيَّةْ / مَقَاصِدُ النَّحْوِ بِهَا مَحْوِيَّةْ
      waʔastaʕīnu llāha fī ʔalfiyyah / maqāṣidu an-naḥwi bihā maḥwiyyah
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
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Descendants
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  • Azerbaijani: nəhv
  • Turkish: nahiv
  • Uzbek: nahv

Preposition

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نَحْوَ (naḥwa)

  1. towards, in the direction of, after, in accordance with
  2. like, like as, as for instance, such as, for example
  3. about
Inflection
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    Inflected forms
Base form نَحْوَ (naḥwa)
Personal-pronoun-
including forms
Singular Dual Plural
Masculine Feminine Common Masculine Feminine
First person نَحْوِي (naḥwī) نَحْوَنَا (naḥwanā)
Second person نَحْوَكَ (naḥwaka) نَحْوَكِ (naḥwaki) نَحْوَكُمَا (naḥwakumā) نَحْوَكُمْ (naḥwakum) نَحْوَكُنَّ (naḥwakunna)
Third person نَحْوَهُ (naḥwahu) نَحْوَهَا (naḥwahā) نَحْوَهُمَا (naḥwahumā) نَحْوَهُمْ (naḥwahum) نَحْوَهُنَّ (naḥwahunna)
References
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Etymology 1.2

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Noun

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نُحُوّ (nuḥuwwm pl

  1. plural of نَحْو (naḥw)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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نحو (form I)

  1. نَحْوِ (naḥwi) /naħ.wi/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of حَوَى (ḥawā)
  2. نُحْوَ (nuḥwa) /nuħ.wa/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of حَوَى (ḥawā)

References

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Malay

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Noun

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نحو

  1. Jawi spelling of nahu

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic نَحْو (naḥw).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? nahw
Dari reading? nahw
Iranian reading? nahv
Tajik reading? nahv

Noun

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نحو (nahv)

  1. syntax
  2. grammar
  3. manner, mode, way