Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مَوَدَّةٌ

Root: ود

Full Definition

مَوَدَّةٌ Love; affection. See also 1.
2 Also, A letter; an epistle: and letters, or epistles: syn. كِتَابٌ and كُتُبٌ. Said to have the latter meaning in the Kur, lx. 1, in the first of the instances of its occurrence there: but this is a strange interpretation.


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