أفاد

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Arabic

Root
ف ي د (f y d)
7 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

أَفَادَ (ʔafāda) IV (non-past يُفِيدُ (yufīdu), verbal noun إِفَادَة (ʔifāda))

  1. (transitive) to benefit, be helpful, useful, beneficial, profitable, advantageous for (someone)
  2. (intransitive) to profit, to benefit
    Synonym: اِسْتَفَاد (istafād)
  3. (ditransitive) to teach
  4. (ditransitive) to notify, to inform, to advise (idiomatically translated by English inform someone about something)
  5. (ditransitive) to report, to inform the police
  6. (transitive) to get, to acquire, to win

Conjugation

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “(فيد)”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ف ي د
2 terms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic أَفَادَ (ʔafāda).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔa.faːd/,
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Verb

أفاد (ʔafād) IV (present بفيد (bifīd))

  1. to be useful or beneficial

Conjugation

    Conjugation of أفاد (ʔafād)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m أفدت (ʔafadt) أفدت (ʔafadt) أفاد (ʔafād) أفدنا (ʔafadna) أفدتو (ʔafadtu) أفادو (ʔafādu)
f أفدتي (ʔafadti) أفادت (ʔafādat)
present m بفيد (bafīd) بتفيد (bitfīd) بفيد (bifīd) منفيد (minfīd) بتفيدو (bitfīdu) بفيدو (bifīdu)
f بتفيدي (bitfīdi) بتفيد (bitfīd)
subjunctive m افيد (afīd) تفيد (tfīd) يفيد (yfīd) نفيد (nfīd) تفيدو (tfīdu) يفيدو (yfīdu)
f تفيدي (tfīdi) تفيد (tfīd)
imperative m فيد (fīd) فيدو (fīdu)
f فيدي (fīdi)