# هود
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Uncertain. Probably from the root ه و د (h w d), related to returning. See هاد (hād). Otherwise, it might be related to ه د ي (h d y), related to guidance. See هادٍ (hādin).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /huːd/

#### Proper noun

هُود • (hūd) m
* (Islam) Hud, a prophet of Islam, sometimes identified with Eber in the Bible
* (Islam) Hud, the eleventh sura of the Qur'an

##### See also

* آدَم (ʔādam)
* إِدْرِيس (ʔidrīs)
* نُوح (nūḥ)
* هُود (hūd)
* صَالِح (ṣāliḥ)
* إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm)
* لُوط (lūṭ)
* إِسْمَاعِيل (ʔismāʕīl)
* إِسْحَاق (ʔisḥāq)
* يَعْقُوب (yaʕqūb)
* يُوسُف (yūsuf)
* أَيُّوب (ʔayyūb)
* ذُو الْكِفْل (ḏū l-kifl)
* شُعَيْب (šuʕayb)
* مُوسَى (mūsā)
* هَارُون (hārūn)
* دَاوُد (dāwud)
* سُلَيْمَان (sulaymān)
* يُونُس (yūnus)
* إِلْيَاس (ʔilyās)
* الْيَسَع (al-yasaʕ)
* زَكَرِيَّا (zakariyyā)
* يَحْيَى (yaḥyā)
* عِيسَى (ʕīsā)
* مُحَمَّد (muḥammad)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from a different Aramaic dialect than from which يَهُودِيّ (yahūdiyy) was borrowed, where the anlauting yə part was weakened to i or disappeared. No singulative is attested and the form was obsolete already at the time of the Qurʾān, only used formulaically.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /huːd/

#### Noun

هُود • (hūd) pl (collective) (obsolete)
* Jews
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:135:وَقَالُوا كُونُوا هُودًا أَوْ نَصَارَىٰ تَهْتَدُواwaqālū kūnū hūdan ʔaw naṣārā tahtadūThey say, "Be Jews or Christians [so] you will be guided."

##### Related terms

* هَادَ (hāda, “to be Jewish”)
* يَهُودِيّ (yahūdiyy, “Jew, Jewish”)
* تَهْوِيد (tahwīd, “Judaizing, Judaization, the act of making something Jewish”)
* تَهَوَّدَ (tahawwada, “to Judaize (oneself), to be Judaized, to act Jewish”)

### Etymology 3

Denominal verb of هُود (hūd), with the second triliteral conjugation implying the bestowing of a particular quality.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /haw.wa.da/

#### Verb

هَوَّدَ • (hawwada) II (non-past يُهَوِّدُ (yuhawwidu), verbal noun تَهْوِيد (tahwīd))
* to Judaize, to make Jewish
** 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 23:137:كُلُّ مَوْلُودٍ يُولَدُ عَلَى الْفِطْرَةِ، فَأَبَوَاهُ يُهَوِّدَانِهِ أَوْ يُنَصِّرَانِهِ أَوْ يُمَجِّسَانِهِkullu mawlūdin yūladu ʕalā l-fiṭrati, faʔabawāhu yuhawwidānihi ʔaw yunaṣṣirānihi ʔaw yumajjisānihiEvery newborn is born upon the fitra (i.e., in a state of submission to God or al-islām); its parents then Judaize or Christianize or Zoroastrianize it.

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hawd/

#### Noun

هَوْد • (hawd) m (obsolete)
* verbal noun of هَادَ (hāda) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /haw.wa.da/

#### Verb

هَوَّدَ • (hawwada) II (non-past يُهَوِّدُ (yuhawwidu), verbal noun تَهْوِيد (tahwīd))
* to make someone drunk, to intoxicate someone, to inebriate someone, to souse someone
* to walk slowly

##### Conjugation
### References

* Hopkins, Simon (1997) “On the Words for “Jew(s)” in Arabic”, in Uri Rubin, David J. Wasserstein, editors, Dhimmis and Others: Jews and Christians and the World of Classical Islam (Israel Oriental Studies; 17), Eisenbrauns, pages 11–27
* Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 293–294

## Malay
### Proper noun

هود
* Jawi spelling of Hud‎.

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

* Root
* ه و د
* 1 term
From Arabic هَوَّدَ (hawwada).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /haw.wad/

### Verb

هود • (hawwad) II (non-past يهود (yhawwad))
* to descend, to come down, to go down
    Synonyms: نزل (nzal), هبط (hbaṭ)
* to get off
    Synonyms: نزل (nzal), هبط (hbaṭ)

#### Conjugation
## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هُود (hūd).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [huð]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [hʊd̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [hʊd̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔʊd̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔud̪̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [hod̪̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [hud̪]

### Proper noun

| Dari | هود |
| Iranian Persian | هود |
| Tajik | Ҳуд |
هود • (hod)
* (Islam) Hud, a prophet in Islam.