wawation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The addition of a seemingly superfluous waw to the end of nouns, particularly names, in early Arabic, still found in the name عَمْرو (ʕamr).

Word forms

wawation

Etymology

From waw + -ation.

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