What is "sawt"

Sawt ( / ALA-LC: Ṣawt; literally "voice"; also spelled sout or sowt) is a kind of popular music found in Kuwait and Bahrain. Sawt is a complex form of urban music, originally performed by 'ud (plucked lute) and mirwas (a drum), with a violin later supplementing the arrangement.

Two men perform the dance, which is called “Zaffan”. Al-Sout is performed only at night gatherings of men. It is called “Samra” (nightly chat).

Śawt ሠ is a letter of the Ge'ez abugida, descended from Epigraphic South Arabian , in Ge'ez representing ś. It is reconstructed as descended from a Proto-Semitic voiceless lateral fricative . It survived only in South Semitic as an independent phoneme.

Proto-Semitic

Akkadian

Arabic

Phoenician

Hebrew

Aramaic

Ge'ez

š

Sawt may refer to:

• Sawt (music), an Arabian folk music genre
• Śawt, a letter in the Ge'ez alphabet