Word.ws English Dictionary

wawation

wawation noun: the addition of a seemingly superfluous waw to the end of nouns, particularly names, in early Arabic, still found in the name عَمْرو (ʕamr).

Noun

wawation (uncountable)

  1. (Arabic) The addition of a seemingly superfluous waw to the end of nouns, particularly names, in early Arabic, still found in the name عَمْرو (ʕamr).

Origin of wawation

From waw + -ation.

Questions about wawation

What does wawation mean?
Wawation means the addition of a seemingly superfluous waw to the end of nouns, particularly names, in early Arabic, still found in the name عَمْرو (ʕamr).
What part of speech is wawation?
Wawation is a noun.

Words near wawation in the dictionary

  1. wawa
  2. Wawarsing
  3. wawas
  4. wawaskeesh
  5. Wawat
  6. wawation
  7. Wawayanda
  8. wawayandaite
  9. wawe
  10. wawed
  11. wawes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wawation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wawation.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wawation. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.