فتح

From Proto-Semitic *pataḥ-.

• IPA^(key): /fa.ta.ħa/

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فَتَحَ • (fataḥa) I (non-past يَفْتَحُ (yaftaḥu), verbal noun فَتْح (fatḥ))

1. (transitive) to open (“to make something accessible”)

   Antonym: أَغْلَقَ (ʔaḡlaqa)

   • 2003, Alaa Al Aswaany, chapter 2, in The Yacoubian building, Maktaba Madbouly:

     فَتَحَ زَكِي عَيْنَيْهِ

     fataḥa zakī ʕaynayhi

     Zaki opened his eyes.

2. to conquer, occupy, take possession of
3. (construed with عَلَى (ʕalā)) to disclose to
4. to explain, expound
5. to prompt
6. to assist
7. to begin
8. to decide

   فَتَحَ الْفَأْل ― fataḥa l-faʔl ― to take as an omen

9. to mark (a consonant) with a fatha
10. to offer (a price)
11. to broach (a subject)

• اِفْتَحْ يَا سِمْسِم (iftaḥ yā simsim)

• Egyptian Arabic: فتح (fataḥ)
• Maltese: fetaħ
• Moroccan Arabic: فتح (ftaḥ)
• South Levantine Arabic: فتح (fataḥ)

• IPA^(key): /fat.ta.ħa/

فَتَّحَ • (fattaḥa) II (non-past يُفَتِّحُ (yufattiḥu), verbal noun تَفْتِيح (taftīḥ))

1. (transitive) to open in large numbers or thoroughly
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:40:

     إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا عَنْهَا لَا تُفَتَّحُ لَهُمْ أَبْوَابُ ٱلسَّمَاءِ وَلَا يَدْخُلُونَ ٱلْجَنَّةَ حَتَّى يَلِجَ ٱلْجَمَلُ فِي سَمِّ ٱلْخِيَاطِ

     ʔinna llaḏīna kaḏḏabū biʔāyātinā wastakbarū ʕanhā lā tufattaḥu lahum ʔabwābu s-samāʔi walā yadḵulūna l-jannata ḥattā yalija l-jamalu fī sammi l-ḵiyāṭi

     Indeed, those who deny Our signs and disdain them—the gates of the heaven will not be opened for them, nor shall they enter paradise until the camel passes through the needle's eye

Cognate with Akkadian 𒁉𒌈 (pītum) and Biblical Hebrew פֶּתַח (pɛ́ṯaḥ).

• IPA^(key): /fatħ/

فَتْح • (fatḥ) m (plural فُتُوح (futūḥ) or فُتُوحَات (futūḥāt))

1. verbal noun of فَتَحَ (fataḥa) (form I)
2. opening
3. disclosure, overture, beginning
4. conquest, victory, an outcome; occupation of a fortified place, opening of an enemy's defenses
5. help
6. the vowel sign fatha

فَتْح • (fatḥ) f

1. (politics) Fatah (a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO))

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

From Arabic فَتَحَ (fataḥa).

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فتح • (fataḥ) I (non-past يفتح (yiftaḥ))

1. to open (to make something accessible)

Borrowed from Arabic فَتْح (fatḥ).

فتح • (fath)

1. victory

   Synonyms: پیروزی (piruzi), گشایش (gošâyeš)

2. conquest

From Arabic فَتَحَ (fataḥa).

• IPA^(key): /fa.taħ/,

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فتح • (fataḥ) I (present بفتح (biftaḥ), passive participle مفتوح (maftūḥ))

1. to open

   Antonym: سكّر (sakkar)

Borrowed from Classical Persian فَتْح (fath), from Arabic فَتْح (fatḥ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fə.t̪əɦ/

فَتَح • (fatah) f (Hindi spelling फ़तह)

1. victory
2. conquest