داع

Arabic

Root
د ع و‎ (d-ʕ-w)

Etymology

Derived from the active participle of دَعَا‎ (daʕā, “to call”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daː.ʕin/

Noun

دَاعٍ • (dāʕin) m (plural دَاعُونَ‎ (dāʕūna) or دُعَاةٌ‎ (duʕātun), feminine دَاعِيَةٌ‎ (dāʕiyatun))

  1. one who calls, invites

Declension

Noun

دَاعٍ • (dāʕin) m npers (plural دَوَاعٍ‎ (dawāʕin))

  1. reason, need to do something
    ‏لَا دَاعِيَ لِـ‎ ― lā dāʕiya li- ― there is no need to ...
    • 2007, Ilʹjá Frank; Jevgénija Safónova, Denís Nekljúdov, “هي والطبيب [She and the Doctor]”, in Ара́бский язы́к с Джохо́й - Ме́тод чте́ния Ильи́ Фра́нка (Arábskij jazýk s Džoxój - Métod čténija Ilʹí Fránka) [The Arabic language with Joha - The Reading Method by Ilya Frank] (in Russian):
      ‏عُدْ يَا جُحَا... لَقَدْ زَالَ الْأَلَمُ... لَا دَاعِيَ لِإِحْضَارِ الطَّبِيبِ...‎‎
      ʕud yā juḥā... laqad zāla l-ʔalamu... lā dāʕiya liʔiḥḍāri ṭ-ṭabībi...
      Come back, Joha ... the pain is gone ... there is no need to bring the doctor ...

=Declension

References

  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “داع”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), “داع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “لوح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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