أفضل

Elative of فَضِيل (faḍīl, “outstanding, very good”).

أَفْضَل • (ʔafḍal) (feminine فُضْلَى (fuḍlā), masculine plural أَفْضَلُون (ʔafḍalūn) or أَفَاضِل (ʔafāḍil), feminine plural فُضْلَيَات (fuḍlayāt))

1. elative degree of فَضِيل (faḍīl):
   1. better; best
   2. more outstanding; most outstanding
2. preferable

• → Bengali: আফজল (aphjol)
• → Indonesian: afdal
• → Kazakh: абзал (abzal)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “أفضل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “أفضل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

أَفْضَلَ • (ʔafḍala) IV (non-past يُفْضِلُ (yufḍilu), verbal noun إِفْضَال (ʔifḍāl))

1. to do a favor for, to oblige
2. to present, to honor
3. to grant, to award, to bestow

أفضل (form II)

1. أُفَضِّلُ (ʔufaḍḍilu) /ʔu.fadˤ.dˤi.lu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of فَضَّلَ (faḍḍala)
2. أُفَضَّلُ (ʔufaḍḍalu) /ʔu.fadˤ.dˤa.lu/: first-person singular non-past passive indicative of فَضَّلَ (faḍḍala)
3. أُفَضِّلَ (ʔufaḍḍila) /ʔu.fadˤ.dˤi.la/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of فَضَّلَ (faḍḍala)
4. أُفَضَّلَ (ʔufaḍḍala) /ʔu.fadˤ.dˤa.la/: first-person singular non-past passive subjunctive of فَضَّلَ (faḍḍala)
5. أُفَضِّلْ (ʔufaḍḍil) /ʔu.fadˤ.dˤil/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of فَضَّلَ (faḍḍala)
6. أُفَضَّلْ (ʔufaḍḍal) /ʔu.fadˤ.dˤal/: first-person singular non-past passive jussive of فَضَّلَ (faḍḍala)

From Arabic أَفْضَل (ʔafḍal), elative degree of فَضِيل (faḍīl).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaf.dˤal/,

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أفضل • (ʔafḍal)

1. better, best

   Synonym: أحسن (ʔaḥsan)

2. preferable