دَعْوَى

The word in other languages

Each form in its own language's script, with its sources. Anything marked "single source" has only one source we could find, so it is shown on this page only, not on the card.

• Turkish dava on the card

  a lawsuit

  Sources: Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Persian دعوا da'vâ on the card

  a quarrel, a fight in everyday speech; a lawsuit in literary use

  Sources: Dehkhoda, Loghatnameh (Persian dictionary), on Vajehyab; Wiktionary (English edition); Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892), University of Chicago edition

• Urdu دعویٰ da'vā on the card

  a claim; a lawsuit

  Sources: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Indonesian dakwa on the card

  an accusation; a complaint brought before a judge

  Sources: KBBI, the official Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Malay dakwa in Jawi script: دعوا

  a complaint or a charge brought in court

  Sources: Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Swahili dai

  a claim; to sue, to bring a claim; plural madai

  Sources: Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Oxford, 1903); Rechenbach, Swahili-English Dictionary (Catholic University of America, 1967); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Hausa da'awa on the card

  a doubtful claim; boasting

  Sources: Bargery, A Hausa-English Dictionary (1934), online edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Bosnian dava single source

  a complaint; a lawsuit

  Sources: Abdulah Škaljić, Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku (Sarajevo, 1966)