سعادة

Arabic

Etymology

Verbal noun of سَعِدَ‎ (saʿida, “to be happy, to be lucky”) from the root س ع د‎ (s-ʿ-d).

Noun

سَعَادَة • (saʿāda) f

  1. verbal noun of سَعِدَ‎ (saʿida) (form I)
  2. happiness
    ‏السَّعَادَةُ‏ تَغْمُرُنِي.‎‎ ― as-saʿādatu taḡmurunī. ― Happiness overwhelms me.
  3. luck, good fortune
  4. bliss
  5. prosperity
  6. highness, majesty (title)

Declension
Declension of noun سَعَادَة (saʿāda)
Singular singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal سَعَادَة
saʿāda		 السَّعَادَة‎
as-saʿāda		 سَعَادَة
saʿādat
Nominative سَعَادَةٌ
saʿādatun		 السَّعَادَةُ‎
as-saʿādatu		 سَعَادَةُ
saʿādatu
Accusative سَعَادَةً
saʿādatan		 السَّعَادَةَ‎
as-saʿādata		 سَعَادَةَ
saʿādata
Genitive سَعَادَةٍ
saʿādatin		 السَّعَادَةِ‎
as-saʿādati		 سَعَادَةِ
saʿādati

Derived terms
  • دَار السَّعَادَة‎ (dār as-saʿāda, “Istanbul”) (literally "land of happiness")

Descendants

References
  • Haywood, J.A.; Nahmad, H.M. (1965), “سعادة”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “سعادة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “سعد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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