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ودء

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns destruction, perishing, and ruin. It can also refer to the act of leveling or covering something with earth, often in the context of burial or making something inaccessible.

Derived headwords

تودأverb
  1. 1.
    to be destroyedclassical

    To be ruined, perish, or be brought to destruction.

وداverb
  1. 1.
    with damma and fathaboth

    with damma and fatha

تودئةnoun
  1. 1.
    destructionclassical

    The act or state of being destroyed; ruin.

مودأةnoun
  1. 1.
    destructionclassical

    That which causes destruction or ruin.

  2. 2.
    wastelandclassical

    A desolate or uninhabited place; a wasteland.

ودأتverb
  1. 1.
    to level earth uponclassical

    To cover something with earth, leveling it, often implying burial.

توديئاnoun
  1. 1.
    leveling earthclassical

    The act of covering or leveling earth upon something.

مودودadjective
  1. 1.
    destroyedclassical

    Having been destroyed or ruined.

Parallel reading

تودأ عليه، أي أهلكه.
It destroyed him, meaning it ruined him.
ودا فلان بالقوم تودئة.
So-and-so destroyed the people with destruction.
المودأة: المهلكة والمفازة.
The mawda'ah: the ruin and the wasteland.
وهى لفظ المفعول به.
And it is the form of the passive participle.
ودأت عليه الأرض توديئا، إذا سويت عليه الارض.
The earth leveled upon him with leveling, if the earth was leveled upon him.
أأبي إن تصبح رهين مودا
O Abi, if you become a captive of destruction,
زلخ الجوانب قعره ملحود
with sides smoothed, its bottom a grave.