خدع

• IPA^(key): /xa.da.ʕa/

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خَدَعَ • (ḵadaʕa) I (non-past يَخْدَعُ (yaḵdaʕu), verbal noun خَدْع (ḵadʕ))

1. to deceive
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:9:

     يُخَادِعُونَ ٱللّٰهَ وَٱلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَمَا يَخْدَعُونَ إِلَّا أَنْفُسَهُمْ وَمَا يَشْعُرُونَ

     yuḵādiʕūna llāha wa-llaḏīna ʔāmanū wa-mā yaḵdaʕūna ʔillā ʔanfusahum wa-mā yašʕurūna

     They seek to deceive God and those who believe, but they deceive not but themselves and perceive it not.

2. to not be plentiful, refuse a gift
3. to be dull (market), be sunk

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “خدع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic خَدَعَ (ḵadaʕa).

• IPA^(key): /xa.daʕ/,

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خدع • (ḵadaʕ) I (present بخدع (biḵdaʕ))

1. to deceive, to trick, to fool