أفسد

Elative of فَاسِد (fāsid, “spoiled, rotten; corrupt; destructive”).

أَفْسَدَ • (ʔafsada) IV (non-past يُفْسِدُ (yufsidu), verbal noun إِفْسَاد (ʔifsād))

1. to spoil, to damage, to ruin
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:11-12:

     وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لَا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ قَالُوا إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُصْلِحُونَ. أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْمُفْسِدُونَ وَلَٰكِن لَّا يَشْعُرُونَ.

     waʔiḏā qīla lahum lā tufsidū fī l-ʔarḍi qālū ʔinnamā naḥnu muṣliḥūna. ʔalā ʔinnahum humu al-mufsidūna walākin lā yašʕurūna.

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• أَصْلَحَ (ʔaṣlaḥa)

أَفْسَد • (ʔafsad)

1. elative degree of فَاسِد (fāsid):
   1. more spoiled, more rotten; most spoiled, most rotten
   2. more corrupt; most corrupt
   3. more destructive; most destructive

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “فسد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “فاسد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen