# حوض
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ħawdˤ/

### Noun

حَوْض • (ḥawḍ) m (plural أَحْوَاض (ʔaḥwāḍ) or حِيَاض (ḥiyāḍ) or حِيضَان (ḥīḍān))
* basin, pool, tank, sink
** 2021, Shaimaa Tarek, شَرِيهَان [šarīhān, Sherihan - Modern Standard Arabic Reader]‎, Lingualism:اِسْتَيْقِظِي! اِسْتَيْقِظِي! دَوْرُكِ فِي تَنْظِيفِ ٱلْحَوْضِ ٱلْيَوْمَ.istayqiẓī! istayqiẓī! dawruki fī tanẓīfi l-ḥawḍi l-yawma.Wakey, wakey! It's your turn to scrub the sink today.
* pelvis

#### Descendants

* Gulf Arabic: حوض (ḥōḏ̣)
* Maltese: ħawt
* → Azerbaijani: hovuz, hövz (Classical Azerbaijani)
** → Armenian: հովուզ (hovuz) — Karabakh
* ⇒ Azerbaijani: hövzə
* → Avar: хӏавуз (ḥʳawuz)
* → Bengali: হাউজ (hauz)
* → Hindustani:
** Hindi: हौज़ (hauz)
** Urdu: حَوض (hauz)
* → Kazakh: хауыз (xauyz)
* → Khalaj: havuz
* → Pashto: حوض, اود (awd)
* → Persian: حوض (howz)
** → Khalaj: hovz
* ⇒ Persian: حوضه (howze)
* → Ottoman Turkish: حوض (havz, havuz)
** Turkish: havuz
** → Arabic: هَوِيس (hawīs), هَاوِيس (hāwīs)
** → Armenian: (Constantinople) հավուզ (havuz), (Van) ավուզ (avuz)
** → Georgian: აუზი (auzi)
** → Greek: χαβούζα (chavoúza)
** → Ladino: havuz
** → Laz: ჰავუზი (havuzi)
** → Romanian: havuz
** → Ubykh: х'абзы (x̣abzə)
* ⇒ Ottoman Turkish: حوضه (havza)
** Turkish: havza
* → Punjabi: حَوض (ḥauẓ)
* → Sindhi: حَوْضُ
* → Tajik: ҳавз (havz)
* → Turkmen: howuz
* → Uyghur: ھاۋۇز (hawuz), ھاۋز (hawz)
* → Uzbek: havz, hovuz
* ⇒ Uzbek: havza

### References

* Freytag, Georg (1830) “حوض”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 443
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “حوض”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 304–305

## Gulf Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

### Pronunciation

* (Kuwait) IPA: /ħoːðˤ/

### Noun

حوض • (ḥōḏ̣) m (dual حوضين (ḥōḏ̣ēn), plural احواض (aḥwāḏ̣))
* swimming pool
    Synonyms: مسبح (masbaḥ), حمام سباحة (ḥammām sibāḥa)
* pelvis

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ħoːdˤ/, [ħo̞ːdˤ]

### Noun

حوض • (ḥōḍ) m (dual حوضين (ḥōḍēn), plural أحواض (ʔaḥwāḍ))
* pelvis
* kitchen sink
* sink
    Synonym: مِغْسَلَة (miḡsala)
* aquarium

## Khalaj
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

حَوُض (havuz) (definite accusative حَوُضوُ, plural حَوُضلار)
* Arabic spelling of havuz (“basin, pool”)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

حُوض (hovz) (definite accusative حُوضوُ, plural حُوضلار)
* Arabic spelling of hovz (“basin, pool”)

##### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ, “basin, pool”).

### Noun

حوض • (havz or havuz) (definite accusative حوضی (havzı, havuzu), plural احواض (ehvâz) or حیاض (hiyâz))
* pool, water tank, reservoir, any artifical basin for storing fresh water
    Synonym: بركه (birke)

#### Derived terms

* بوستان حوضی (bostan havuzu, “a reservoir or pool in a garden”)
* حمام حوضی (hamam havuzu, “a pool in a hammam”)
* حوض الحمار (havz el-himâr, “sorry fellow”, literally “a donkey's trough”)
* حوض الرسول (havz el-resul, “the tank in Paradise of which all the Blessed will drink”)
* حوض ترسا (havz-ı tersa, “vat in which wine is fermented”)
* حوض رسمی (havuz resmi, “pool or reservoir right”)
* حوض ماهی (havz-ı mâhi, “fishing pond”)
* حوض موت (havz-ı mevt, “death, the waters of Lethe”)
* حوضجق (havzcık, havuzcuk, “little pool or basin”)
* حوضلانمق (havzlanmak, havuzlanmak, “to become a tank”)
* حوضلو (havzlı, havuzlu, “provided with a pool”)
* حوضی (havzî, “pertaining to a tank or pool”)
* لیمان حوضی (liman havuzu, “a tank or pool by a port”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: havuz
* → Arabic: هَوِيس (hawīs), هَاوِيس (hāwīs)
* → Armenian: (Constantinople) հավուզ (havuz), (Van) ավուզ (avuz)
* → Georgian: აუზი (auzi)
* → Greek: χαβούζα (chavoúza)
* → Ladino: havuz
* → Laz: ჰავუზი (havuzi)
* → Romanian: havuz
* → Ubykh: х'абзы (x̣abzə)

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “حوض”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 673
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “havuz1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1908
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “حوض”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 202b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حوض”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 522
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Piscina”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1303
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حوض”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1821
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “havuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حوض”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 812

## Pashto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

### Noun

حَوض • (transliteration needed) m
* reservoir

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Iran):(file)
* (Classical Persian) IPA: [hawz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [häwz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [häwz]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔäwz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔäwz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [howz]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [häwz]

### Noun

حوض • (howz) (plural حوض‌ها (howz-hâ))
* basin, pool, tank (usually artificial)
** c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎:اندر ساحت مسجد سنگی بزرگ نهاده و حوضی سنگین مدور، عظیم بزرگ، بر سر آن نهاده.andar sāhat-i masjid sangē buzurg nihadā u hawzē sangēn mudawwar, azīm buzurg, bar sar-i ān nihāda.A large stone is placed in the courtyard of this mosque, and a spherical water basin of stone, large and grand, is placed on top of that.

#### Derived terms

* حوضه (howze)
* حوضچه (howzče)
* حوضک (howzak)
* حوض‌خانه (howz-xâne)

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

### Noun

حَوض • (ḥauẓ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਹੌਜ਼)
* reservoir

### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “حَوض”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

### Noun

حَوْضُ • (hauzu) m (Devanagari हौज़ु)
* reservoir

### Further reading

* Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “حَوْضُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
* “حوض”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَوْض (ḥawḍ).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɦɔːz/

### Noun

حَوض • (hauz) m (Hindi spelling हौज़)
* reservoir, cistern, pond, pool, tank, vat, trough, basin of a fountain, a fountain

### Further reading

* “حوض”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “حوض”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* “حوض”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.