رواح

Verbal noun of رَاحَ (rāḥa).

• IPA^(key): /ra.waːħ/

رَوَاح • (rawāḥ) m

1. verbal noun of رَاحَ (rāḥa) (form I)
2. evening, time between sunset and night

   Synonym: عَشِيِّ (ʕašiyyi)

   Coordinate terms: صَبَاح (ṣabāḥ), صُبْح (ṣubḥ)

   يَا أَبَا ذَر: مَا مِن صَبَاحٍ وَلَا رَوَاحٍ إِلَّا وَبِقَاع الَارْضِ يُنَادِي بَعْضَهَا بَعْضَا

   Oh Abu Dharr! No morning or evening pass without every corner on earth calling one another. (part of a Hadith)

3. evening journey

   Coordinate term: غُدُوّ (ḡuduww)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 34:12:

     وَلِسُلَيْمَـٰنَ ٱلرِّيحَ غُدُوُّهَا شَهْرٌۭ وَرَوَاحُهَا شَهْرٌۭ ۖ

     And to Solomon ˹We subjected˺ the wind: its morning stride was a month’s journey and so was its evening stride.

Borrowed from Arabic رَوَاح (rawāḥ).

رواح • (ravâh)

1. (obsolete) evening
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 98”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     لب چو آب حیات تو هست قوت جان
     وجود خاکی ما را از اوست ذکر رواح

     lab-i čū āb-i hayāt-i tu hast quwwat-i jān
     wujūd-i xākī-yi mā rā az ō-st zikr-i rawāh

     Your lips like the Water of Life are the strength of my soul;
     The evening mystical prayers of my earthly being are from them.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “رواح”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim