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Arabic
Pronunciation
Noun
وَدَاع • (wadāʕ) m
- farewell
Declension
Declension of noun وَدَاع (wadāʕ)
| Singular
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basic singular triptote
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| Indefinite
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Definite
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Construct
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| Informal
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وَدَاع
wadāʕ
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الْوَدَاع
al-wadāʕ
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وَدَاع
wadāʕ
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| Nominative
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وَدَاعٌ
wadāʕun
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الْوَدَاعُ
al-wadāʕu
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وَدَاعُ
wadāʕu
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| Accusative
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وَدَاعًا
wadāʕan
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الْوَدَاعَ
al-wadāʕa
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وَدَاعَ
wadāʕa
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| Genitive
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وَدَاعٍ
wadāʕin
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الْوَدَاعِ
al-wadāʕi
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وَدَاعِ
wadāʕi
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Derived terms
Descendants
- → Ottoman Turkish: وداع (veda)
- → Persian: وداع
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَدَاع (wadāʕ). Doublet of الوداع (elveda, interjection).
Noun
وداع • (veda)
- farewell
Descendants
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَدَاع (wadāʕ).
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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waḏā', wiḏā'
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| Dari reading?
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widā'
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| Iranian reading?
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vedâ'
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| Tajik reading?
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vidoʾ
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Noun
وداع • (vedâ')
- (formal) farewell
- Synonym: خداحافظی (xodâhâfezi)
c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 138”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]:یاد باد آن که ز ما وقت سفر یاد نکرد
به وداعی دل غمدیدهٔ ما شاد نکرد- yād bād ān ki zi mā waqt-i safar yād na-kard
ba wadā'ē dil-i ğamdīda-yi mā šād na-kard - Blessed by the memory of she who did not tell me when she would leave,
Who did not make my grief-stricken heart happy with even a single farewell.
Descendants
Further reading
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “وداع”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “وداع”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “وداع”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press