وضع

Arabic

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /wa.dˤa.ʕa/

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Verb

وَضَعَ • (waḍaʕa) I, non-past يَضَعُ‎ (yaḍaʕu)

1. (transitive) to put; to lay; to place; to set; to position; to install; to implant

   وَضَعْتُ يَدَيَّ عَلَى أُذْنَيَّ فَمَا سَمِعْتُ قَوْلَهُ.

   waḍaʕtu yadayya ʕalā ʔuḏnayya famā samiʕtu qawlahu.

   I put my hands over my ears and did not hear what he said.

2. (transitive) to lump, to group; to put together

   Synonyms: جَمَعَ (jamaʕa), رَثَدَ (raṯada)

   1. (transitive, of a female) to lay and cluster (eggs) in a nest
3. (transitive) to store away, to stow away, to deposit; to put down, to lay down
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 94:2:

     .وَوَضَعۡنَا عَنكَ وِزۡرَكَ

     And We put down from you your burden.

   Synonym: خَزَّنَ (ḵazzana, “to store”)

4. (transitive) to stop holding or using (a tool or an instrument, such as a weapon), to put away or down, to lay down; to put aside
   1. (transitive) to cancel (a law, a regulation, and so on), to abrogate; to set aside

      Synonyms: أَلْغَى (ʔalḡā, “to cancel”), أَبْطَلَ (ʔabṭala, “to nullify; to invalidate”), نَسَخَ (nasaḵa, “to abrogate; to supersede”)

   2. (transitive) to remove (clothes); to put off or down, to lay off or down, to doff; to take off

      Synonym: خَلَعَ (ḵalaʕa, “to take off (clothes or accessories)”)

   3. (transitive, of a female) to give birth to (a baby), to deliver, to bear

      Synonym: وَلَدَ (walada, “to give birth to, to mother”)

5. (transitive) to posit (a law, a regulation, and so on); to impose; to set down, to lay down

   Synonyms: كَتَبَ (kataba, “to prescribe”), شَرَعَ (šaraʕa, “to command”)

   1. (transitive) to posit (an explanation, a theory, and so on); to propose, to set forth; to put down
6. (transitive) to add

   Synonym: أَضَافَ (ʔaḍāfa)

   1. (transitive) to interpose (something, as in a text or a literature, especially falsely), to insert; to interpolate; to put in

      Synonyms: اِخْتَلَقَ (iḵtalaqa, “to make up, to invent”), اِفْتَرَى (iftarā, “to forge”)

7. (transitive, rare) to see or treat as lowly, to demean

   Synonym: أَذَلَّ (ʔaḏalla)

Conjugation

References

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

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /wadˤʕ/

Noun

وَضْع • (waḍʕ) m (plural أَوْضَاع (ʔawḍāʕ))

1. verbal noun of وَضَعَ (waḍaʕa) (form I)
2. putting down, putting, setting
3. humiliation, deposition
4. parturition
5. miscarriage
6. creating, inventing, composing
7. position, site
8. situation
9. attitude, behavior, manners
10. proceeding, way of acting
11. case
12. plan, intention
13. external form, figure, shape
14. institute, establishment
15. literary composition, work
16. subtraction, abatement

    وَضْعًا وَقَوْلًا ― waḍʿan wa-qawlan ― in deeds and words

Declension

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: vəz
• → Ottoman Turkish: وضع (vaz)
• → Persian: وضع (vaz')

References

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

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic وَضْع (waḍʕ).

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Noun

وَضع • (vaz') (plural اُوضاع (owzâ') or وَضع‌ها (vaz'-hâ))

1. condition, situation, state

   Synonyms: وضعیت (vaz'iyat), حال (hâl)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 3608:

     ز انکه مریم وقت وضع حمل خویش / بود از بیگانه دور و هم ز خویش

     z-ân-ke maryam vaqt-e vaz'-e haml-e xiš / bud az bigâne dur o ham ze xiš

     Mary in pregnant state was not joined by any one: she did not return from without the town.

2. manner, way of acting
   • c. 1760, محمد یوسف خان [Muḥammad Yūsuf Khān], translated by Hannah Lord Archambault, in "Geographies of Influence: Two Afghan Military Households in 17th and 18th Century South India" (2018, PhD), تاریخ فتحیه [Tārikh-i Fatḥiya]‎:

     وَ این تُرکتاز خان دَر دَکَّن مُتَوَلِّد شُده، خود را با وَضعِ مَرَتهه‌ها ساخته، دَر لِباس و خَوراک و مُخالِطَت با مَرَتهه‌ها قِسمی مُواقَفَت داشت که سَرِ مو اَز وَضعِ آنها با این تَفاوَت مَحسوس نِمی‌کَردَند. وَ دَر رَویه جَنگ نیز مِثلِ مَرَتهه‌ها بود.

     va in torktâz xân dar dakkan motavalled šode, xod-râ bâ vaz'-e marathe-hâ sâxte, dar lebâs o xorâk o moxâletat bâ marathe-hâ qesm-i movâqafat dâšt ke sar-e mu az vaz'-e ânhâ bâ in tafâvat mahsus ne-mi-kardand. va dar raviye-ye jang niz mesl-e marathe-hâ bud.

     And this Turktāz Khān born in the Deccan and presented himself in the manner of the Marathas. In clothing and food and conversation their they had such a degree of similarity that not a hair from their heads could be distinguished. In style of warfare also he was like the Marathas.

3. enactment

   Synonym: تصویب (tasvib)

4. subtraction, deduction

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic وَضْع (waḍʕ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wadˤʕ/,

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Noun

وضع • (waḍʕ) m (plural أوضاع (ʔawḍāʕ))

1. situation, position