سلوى

• IPA^(key): /sal.waː/

From the root س ل و‎ (s-l-w). Compare Hebrew שַׁלְוָה‎ (šalwɔ̂).

سَلْوَى • (salwā) f

1. joy, happiness, satisfaction

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

From Aramaic or Classical Syriac ܣܠܘܝ‎ (salway, “quail”).

سَلْوَى • (salwā) m (collective, singulative سَلْوَاة‎ f (salwāh), plural سَلَاوَى‎ (salāwā))

1. quails
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:57:

     ‏وَظَلَّلۡنَا عَلَيۡكُمُ ٱلۡغَمَامَ وَأَنزَلۡنَا عَلَيۡكُمُ ٱلۡمَنَّ وَٱلسَّلۡوَىٰ ۖ كُلُوا۟ مِن طَيِّبَـٰتِ مَا رَزَقۡنَـٰكُمۡ ۚ وَمَا ظَلَمُونَا وَلَـٰكِن كَانُوۤا۟ أَنفُسَهُمۡ يَظۡلِمُونَ‎

     waẓallalnā ʕalaykumu l-ḡamāma waʔanzalnā ʕalaykumu l-manna was-salwā kulū min ṭayyibāti mā razaqnākum wamā ẓalamūnā walākin kānū ʔanfusahum yaẓlimūna

     And We shaded you with clouds and sent down to you manna and quails, [saying], "Eat from the good things with which We have provided you." And they wronged Us not - but they were [only] wronging themselves.

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

سَلْوَى • (salwā) f

1. a female given name

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

سَلْوَى • (salwā) f

1. An area in Hawally, Kuwait.

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• “slw”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “slwy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Ahrens, Karl (1930), “Christliches im Qoran. Eine Nachlese”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 84, page 25
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 24
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 177–178
• Lagarde, Paul de (1889) Übersicht über die im Aramäischen, Arabischen und Hebräischen übliche Bildung der Nomina (Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen; 35)‎ (in German), Göttingen: Dieterichsche Verlags-Buchhandlung, page 190, by means of erroneous reasoning assumed the opposite direction