حديث

See also: حدیث

Arabic

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħa.diːθ/
  • (file)

Adjective

حَدِيث (ḥadīṯ) (feminine حَدِيثَة (ḥadīṯa), common plural حِدَاث (ḥidāṯ), masculine plural حُدَثَاء (ḥudaṯāʾ), feminine plural حَدِيثَات (ḥadīṯāt), elative أَحْدَث (ʾaḥdaṯ))

  1. new
  2. recent
  3. modern

Declension

Antonyms

Noun

حَدِيث (ḥadīṯ) m (plural أَحَادِيث (ʾaḥādīṯ) or حِدْثَان (ḥidṯān))

  1. recent event, fresh news
  2. story, tale
  3. talk, speech, discourse, conversation
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 31:6:
      وَمِنَ النّاسِ مَنْ يَشْتَرِي لَهْوَ الْحَدِيثِ لِيُضِلَّ عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ وَيَتَّخِذَهَا هُزُوًا أُولٰئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ مُهِينٌ
      wamina n-nāsi man yaštarī lahwa l-ḥadīṯi liyuḍilla ʿan sabīli l-lahi biḡayri ʿilmin wayattaḵiḏahā huzuwan ʾulāʾika lahum ʿaḏābun muhīnun
      And of the people is he who buys the amusement of speech to mislead [others] from the way of Allah without knowledge and who takes it in ridicule. Those will have a humiliating punishment.
  4. (religion, Islam) hadith

Declension

References

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