ود

Arabic

Etymology

From the root و د د (w-d-d).

Verb

وَدَّ (wadda) I, non-past يَوَدُّ‎ (yawaddu) , first-person singular past وَدِدْتُ (wadidtu)

  1. (transitive) to love, to like
  2. (transitive) to like to have, to love would it be there, to be comfortable with, to wish, to desire
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:96:
      يَوَدُّ أَحَدُهُمْ لَوْ يُعَمَّرُ أَلْفَ سَنَةً
      yawaddu ʾaḥaduhum law yuʿammaru ʾalfa sanatan
      One of them would like it were he made to live thousand years
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 15:2:
      رُبَمَا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوْ كَانُوا مُسْلِمِينَ
      rubamā yawaddu allaḏīna kafarū law kānū muslimīna
      Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish their having become Muslims.

Conjugation

Noun

وَدّ or وِدّ or وُدّ (wadd or widd or wudd) m

  1. verbal noun of وَدَّ (wadda) (form I)
  2. love, affection, friendship
  3. desire, wish

Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), ود”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 790–791
  • Freytag, Georg (1837), ود”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 448
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), ود”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2931
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), ود”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1204
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), ود”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1386
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