ضياع

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ض ي ع (ḍ y ʕ)
7 terms

Pronunciation

Noun

ضَيَاع (ḍayāʕm

  1. loss; ruin, destruction, perdition
Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

ضِيَاع (ḍiyāʕf pl

  1. plural of ضِيعَة (ḍīʕa)

References

  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “ضياع”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ضياع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “ضياع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Solotareff, Gregoire (2014) “ضياع”, in Langenscheidt Universal-Wörterbuch Arabisch, 2014 edition, München: Langenscheidt, →ISBN