Where does “كوى” come from?

كوى (Hijazi Arabic) comes from Arabic كَوَى, from Arabic و, from Persian یا, from Arabic يَا — {{m|en|O|id=vocative}}.

كوى (Hijazi Arabic): to iron (clothes)

Definitions

  1. to iron (clothes)

Ancestry of “كوى”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicكَوَىto iron
2Arabicوand, "comma", "semi-colon"; a divider of words or...
3PersianیاAPI •; or; either
4Arabicيَا{{m|en|O|id=vocative}}
Every word from Arabic يَا →Every word from Persian یا →Every word from Arabic و →