أفاد

From the root ف ي د‎ (f-y-d).

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.faː.da/

أَفَادَ • (ʔafāda) IV, non-past يُفِيدُ‎‎ (yufīdu)

1. (transitive) to benefit, be helpful, useful, beneficial, profitable, advantageous for
2. (intransitive) to derive benefit, profit, or advantage; to profit, benefit: with مِنْ‎ (min, “from”)

   Synonym: اِسْتَفَاد‎ (istafād)

3. (transitive, ditransitive) to notify, advise, acquaint, inform, let know: with the person in the accusative case and with the thing in the accusative or in a prepositional phrase with بِـ‎ (bi-), or with the thing expressed by a statement (noun phrase) headed by أَنَّ‎ (ʔanna, “that”) or بِأَنَّ‎ (biʔanna)
4. (transitive) to get, acquire, gain, win

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “(فيد)‎”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Learned borrowing from Arabic أَفَادَ‎ (ʔafāda).

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.faːd/, [ʔaˈfæːd]

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أفاد • (ʔafād) (form IV, present بفيد‎ (bifīd))

1. to be useful or beneficial