روا

Arabic

Verb

رَوْا • (raw) (form I) /raw/

1. second-person masculine plural imperative of رَأَى (raʔā)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (lwʾk' /⁠rawāg⁠/, “going”). Doublet of رواج (rawâj).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾa.ˈwɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rä.wɑ́ː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rä.wɑ́ː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [rä.wɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [rä.wɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹæ.vɒ́ː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾä.vɔ́]

Readings
Classical reading?	rawā
Dari reading?	rawā
Iranian reading?	ravâ
Tajik reading?	ravo

Adjective

روا • (ravâ)

1. allowable, permissible, admissible, lawful
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2599:

     در مقامی زهر و در جایی دوا / در مقامی کفر و در جایی روا

     dar maqâm-i zahr u dar jâ-yi dawâ / dar maqâm-i kufr u dar ja-yi rawâ

     In one place poison and in one place medicine, in one place infidelity and in one place (it is) approved.

2. worthy, deserved
   • حکم تو بر من روان زجر تو بر من رواست.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਰਵਾ (ravā)

  Shahmukhi script: روا (ravā)

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “روا”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “روا”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim