نسوة

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nis.wa/, /nus.wa/

Noun

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".

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