نسوة
Arabic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]نِسْوَة or نُسْوَة • (niswa or nuswa) pl
- 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".
Derived terms
[edit]- نِسْوِيّ (niswiyy), نِسْوِيَّة (niswiyya)