ض و ي

Arabic

Root

ض و ي • (ḍ-w-y)

1. related to retreating to something small

Derived terms

• Form I: ضَوَى (ḍawā, “to have recourse, to retreat, to seek refuge; to inform oneself of a fuss”)
  • Verbal noun: ضَيّ (ḍayy), ضُوِيّ (ḍuwiyy)
  • Active participle: ضَاوٍ (ḍāwin)
  • Passive participle: مَضْوِيّ (maḍwiyy)
• Form I: ضَوِيَ (ḍawiya, “to be or become macilent”)
  • Verbal noun: ضَوًى (ḍawan)
  • Active participle: ضَاوٍ (ḍāwin)
  • Passive participle: مَضْوِيّ (maḍwiyy)
• Form IV: أَضْوَى (ʔaḍwā, “to be scrawny; to give forth or give birth to in a macilent form; to render scrawny, to debilitate”)
  • Verbal noun: إِضْوَاء (ʔiḍwāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُضْوٍ (muḍwin)
  • Passive participle: مُضْوًى (muḍwan)
• Form VII: اِنْضَوَى (inḍawā, “to retreat”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْضِوَاء (inḍiwāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُنْضَوٍ (munḍawin)

• ضَوَاة (ḍawāh, “a fuss, a call; tumour”)
• ضَاوِيّ (ḍāwiyy, “of meagre bones”)
• ضَاوِيَّة (ḍāwiyya, “tenuity, meagreness of bones”)

References

• “ضوي” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ض و ي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 33a
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ض و ي”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 46a–b
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ض و ي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 639–640