هود

Uncertain. Probably from the root ه و د (h w d), related to returning. See هاد (hād). Otherwise, it might be related to ه د ي (h d y), related to guidance. See هادٍ (hādin).

• IPA^(key): /huːd/

هُود • (hūd) m

1. (Islam) Hud, a prophet of Islam, sometimes identified with Eber in the Bible
2. (Islam) Hud, the eleventh sura of the Qur'an

Borrowed from a different Aramaic dialect than from which يَهُودِيّ (yahūdiyy) was borrowed, where the anlauting yə part was weakened to i or disappeared. No singulative is attested and the form was obsolete already at the time of the Qurʾān, only used formulaically.

• IPA^(key): /huːd/

هُود • (hūd) pl (collective) (obsolete)

2. Jews
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:135:

     وَقَالُوا كُونُوا هُودًا أَوْ نَصَارَىٰ تَهْتَدُوا

     waqālū kūnū hūdan ʔaw naṣārā tahtadū

     They say, "Be Jews or Christians [so] you will be guided."

• هَادَ (hāda, “to be Jewish”)
• يَهُودِيّ (yahūdiyy, “Jew, Jewish”)
• تَهْوِيد (tahwīd, “Judaizing, Judaization, the act of making something Jewish”)
• تَهَوَّدَ (tahawwada, “to Judaize (oneself), to be Judaized, to act Jewish”)

Denominal verb of هُود (hūd), with the second triliteral conjugation implying the bestowing of a particular quality.

• IPA^(key): /haw.wa.da/

هَوَّدَ • (hawwada) II (non-past يُهَوِّدُ (yuhawwidu), verbal noun تَهْوِيد (tahwīd))

1. to Judaize, to make Jewish
   • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 23:137:

     كُلُّ مَوْلُودٍ يُولَدُ عَلَى الْفِطْرَةِ، فَأَبَوَاهُ يُهَوِّدَانِهِ أَوْ يُنَصِّرَانِهِ أَوْ يُمَجِّسَانِهِ

     kullu mawlūdin yūladu ʕalā l-fiṭrati, faʔabawāhu yuhawwidānihi ʔaw yunaṣṣirānihi ʔaw yumajjisānihi

     Every newborn is born upon the fitra (i.e., in a state of submission to God or al-islām); its parents then Judaize or Christianize or Zoroastrianize it.

• IPA^(key): /hawd/

هَوْد • (hawd) m (obsolete)

1. verbal noun of هَادَ (hāda) (form I)

• IPA^(key): /haw.wa.da/

هَوَّدَ • (hawwada) II (non-past يُهَوِّدُ (yuhawwidu), verbal noun تَهْوِيد (tahwīd))

1. to make someone drunk, to intoxicate someone, to inebriate someone, to souse someone
2. to walk slowly

• Hopkins, Simon (1997) “On the Words for “Jew(s)” in Arabic”, in Uri Rubin, David J. Wasserstein, editors, Dhimmis and Others: Jews and Christians and the World of Classical Islam (Israel Oriental Studies; 17), Eisenbrauns, pages 11–27
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 293–294

هود

1. Jawi spelling of Hud.‎

From Arabic هَوَّدَ (hawwada).

• IPA^(key): /haw.wad/

هود • (hawwad) II (non-past يهود (yhawwad))

1. to descend, to come down, to go down

   Synonyms: نزل (nzal), هبط (hbaṭ)

2. to get off

   Synonyms: نزل (nzal), هبط (hbaṭ)

Borrowed from Arabic هُود (hūd).

هود • (hod)

1. (Islam) Hud, a prophet in Islam.