Mawaddah
مَوَدَّة
Say it ma-WAD-dah
Love and affection
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- w-d-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Mawadda, Mawaddah
Meaning & source
Love and affection: mawaddah is a verbal noun of wadda, to love (Sībawayh, in Lisān). Ibn al-Aʿrābī records Mawaddah as a woman’s name.
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قَالَ سِيبَوَيْهِ: جَاءَ الْمَصْدَرُ فِي مَوَدّة عَلَى مَفْعَلة وَلَمْ يُشَاكِلْ بَابَ يَوْجَلُ فِيمَنْ كَسَرَ الْجِيمَ لأَن وَاوَ يَوْجَلُ قَدْ تَعْتَلُّ بِقَلْبِهَا أَلفاً فأَشبهت وَاوَ يَعِدُ فَكَسَرُوهَا كَمَا كَسَرُوا المَوْعِد، وإِن اخْتَلَفَ الْمَعْنَيَانِ، فَكَان
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.