HuwtN HwY Hwt Fish: (M, A, K:) or [rather] a fish: (S, TA:) or a great fish; any great fish: (M, Msb, TA:) of the masc. gender: (Msb:) pl. [of mult.] HiytaAnN (S, Msb, K) and HiwatapN and [of pauc.] A^aHowaAtN . (K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] SaAHibu AlHuwti (in the Kur lxviii. 48) [a surname of The prophet ] Jonas. (Bd, Jel.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] AlHuwtu (assumed tropical:) [ The constellation Pisces; ] a certain sign of the Zodiac. (S, K.) And AlHuwtu AljanuwbiY~u (assumed tropical:) The constellation Piscis Australis. (Kzw &c.) And famu AlHuwti (assumed tropical:) The bright star [ a, called by European astronomers Fomalhaut, ] in the mouth of Piscis Australis. (Kzw &c.)
The corpus record — Arabic
حُوت
huwt
HuwtN HwY Hwt Fish: (M, A, K:) or [rather] a fish: (S, TA:) or a great fish; any great fish: (M, Msb, TA:) of the masc. gender: (Msb:) pl. [of mult.] HiytaAnN (S, Msb, K) and HiwatapN and [of pauc.] A^aHowaAtN . (K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] SaAHibu AlHuwti (in the Kur lxviii. 48) [a surname of The prophet ]
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Where it lives
- The Quran 5 · 0.39/10k
What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
In the wild
- حُوتَ Quran 18:61 (Al-Kahf 61)
- حُوتَ Quran 18:63 (Al-Kahf 63)
- حُوتُ Quran 37:142 (As-Saffat 142)
- حُوتِ Quran 68:48 (Al-Qalam 48)
- حِيتَانُ Quran 7:163 (Al-A'raf 163)
Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.