"Da\u2018wah (also transliterated daawa(h); Arabic: \u062F\u0639\u0648\u0629\u200E \"invitation\") means the proselytizing or preaching of Islam. Da\u2018wah literally means \"issuing a summons\" or \"making an invitation\", being a gerund of a verb meaning variously \"to summon\" or \"to invite\" (whose triconsonantal root is d-\u0295-w \u062F\u0639\u0648)."@en .