صَوْتٌ
Root: صوت
Full Definition
صَوْتٌ
[an Verbal.Noun : and also a simple subst., signifying] A sound, a noise, a voice, a cry, a shout, an exclamation, or a vociferation; of a human being and of other things: conventionally, the sound of speech: [also a tone, considered with regard to the degree of elevation or depression of the voice:] and any sort of singing: [and an air, or a song:] and it is used to signify a clamour, or confused noise, or mixture of sounds, and a cry for aid or succour: the pl. is أَصْوَاتٌ: it is masc.: in the following verse, of Ruweyshid Ibn-Ketheer Et-Tá-ee,
2 اِسْمُ صَوْتٍ is a term applied to A noun significant of a sound: nouns of this kind being of two classes; namely, nouns applied to the purpose of addressing irrational beings, or what are virtually in the predicament of irrational beings, as young infants; and onomatopœias, or nouns imitative of sounds: the former class consists of two descriptions of words; namely, ejaculations used for the purpose of chiding, as هَلَا and عَدَسْ and كِخْ كِخْ ;
3 See also the next paragraph, in four places.
[O thou, the rider urging on his beast, ask the sons of Asad what is this clamour?], the poet has made الصوت fem. because meaning thereby. الضَّوْضَآء and الجَلَبَة and الاِسْتِغَاثَة, or he has made it fem. as meaning الصَّيْحَة, or الاِسْتِغَاثَة: the like is often done by the Arabs, when two words, masc. and fem., are syn.: thus they say, أَقْبَلَتِ العِشَآءُ, meaning العَشِيَّةُ; and هٰذَا العَشِيَّةُ, meaning العِشَآءُ: but the making a masc. n. fem. for this reason is bad; though the reverse is held to be allowable. The Arabs say, أَسْمَعُ صَوْتًا وَأَرَى فَوْتًا, meaning I hear a sound, or voice, but I see not a deed. بِصَوْتِكَ in the Kur xvii. 66 is said to mean With the sounds of [thy] singing, and musical pipes.يَا أَيُّهَا الرَّاكِبُ المُزْجِى مَطِيَّتَهُ سَايِلْ بَنِى أَسَدٍ مَا هٰذِهِ الصَّوْتُ
2 اِسْمُ صَوْتٍ is a term applied to A noun significant of a sound: nouns of this kind being of two classes; namely, nouns applied to the purpose of addressing irrational beings, or what are virtually in the predicament of irrational beings, as young infants; and onomatopœias, or nouns imitative of sounds: the former class consists of two descriptions of words; namely, ejaculations used for the purpose of chiding, as هَلَا and عَدَسْ and كِخْ كِخْ ;
3 See also the next paragraph, in four places.
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