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هدق

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with the concept of breaking or shattering something, often with a sense of it being fragile or easily broken. It describes the action of breaking and the state of being broken.

Derived headwords

هَدَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to breakboth

    To break something, causing it to fracture or shatter.

اِنْهَدَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to be brokenboth

    To be broken, to fracture, or to shatter as a result of an action.

اِنْهِدَاقnoun
  1. 1.
    breakingclassical

    The act or process of breaking or shattering.

مُنْهَدِقadjective
  1. 1.
    brokenclassical

    Describing something that has been broken or shattered.

Parallel reading

هَدَقَ الشيءَ فانهدق
He broke the thing, and it broke.
كسره فانكسر
He broke it, and it broke.