ود

Arabic

Etymology 1

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 wish, to like to have, to love would it be there, to be comfortable with, to desire (+لَوْ‎ (law))
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:96:
      ‏يَوَدُّ أَحَدُهُمْ لَوْ يُعَمَّرُ أَلْفَ سَنَةً‎
      yawaddu ʔaḥaduhum law yuʕammaru ʔalfa 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 they had been 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
    • 10th century, Al-Mutanabbi, ديوان أبي الطيب المتنبي, volume 2:
      ‏إِذَا مَا ٱلنَّاسُ جَرَّبَهُمْ لَبِيبُ / فَإِنِّي قَدْ أَكَلْتُهُمُ وَذَاقَا / فَلَمْ أَرَ وُدَّهُمْ إِلَّا خِدَاعًا / وَلَمْ أَرَ دِينَهُمْ إِلَّا نِفَاقَا‎
      ʔiḏā mā n-nāsu jarrabahum labību / faʔinnī qad ʔakaltuhumu waḏāqā / falam ʔara wuddahum ʔillā ḵidāʕan / walam ʔara dīnahum ʔillā nifāqā
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  3. desire, wish
Declension

Noun

وَدّ • (wadd) m

  1. dialectal form of وَتَد‎ (watad)
    • a. 813, ar-Rājiz, unknown title:
      ‏خالي لقيطٌ (var. عُوَيْف) وأبو عَلِجِّ … المطعمان اللحمَ بالعَشِجِّ
      وبالغداةِ كِسَرَ (var. فِلَق) البَرْنِجِّ … يُقْلَعُ بالوَدِّ وبالصِّيصجِّ
      ‎
      I have two uncles ʿUwayf and Abū ʿAlī … who eat meat in the vesper,
      And in the morn sweet shives of dates … they pluck by means of pegs and pales
      Translation by Gottfried Hoberg:
      Avunculus meus est ʿUvaif et Abû ʿAlî, qui carnem vespere porrigunt
      et mane dactylos suaviores, qui extrahuntur paxillo et palo
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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