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ولد
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See also: و ل د
Algerian Arabic
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ولد (weld) m (plural ولاد (wulād))
Arabic
Etymology 1.1
From Proto-Semitic *walad-.
Pronunciation
Verb
وَلَدَ • (walada) I (non-past يَلِدُ (yalidu), verbal noun وِلَادَة (wilāda) or لِدَة (lida) or مَوْلِد (mawlid))
- to bear, to beget
- وُلِدْتُ فِي مَدِينَةٍ كَبِيرَةٍ.
- wulidtu fī madīnatin kabīratin.
- I was born in a big city.
- to produce, to bring forth
Conjugation
Etymology 1.2
Form-II intensive/causative of وَلَدَ (walada, “to give birth”).
Pronunciation
Verb
وَلَّدَ • (wallada) II (non-past يُوَلِّدُ (yuwallidu), verbal noun تَوْلِيد (tawlīd))
- to assist in childbirth (as a midwife)
- to make children to, to cause to give birth
- to rear, to educate, to bring up
- to innovate, to originate, to generate, to produce
- وَجَمَالُ ٱلْأَشْخَاصِ هُوَ أَمْرٌ يُؤَثِّرُ بِٱلْمَشَاعِرِ وَيُوَلِّدُ ٱلْإنْجِذَابَ نَحْوَ الْآخَرِينَ.
- wa-jamālu l-ʔašḵāṣi huwa ʔamrun yuʔaṯṯiru bi-l-mašāʕiri wa-yuwallidu l-ʔinjiḏāba naḥwa l-ʔāḵarīna.
- The beauty of people is something that affects feelings and generates attraction towards others.
- to give birth
- to derive (a word)
Conjugation
References
- Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “ولد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ولد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
Etymology 1.3
Compare Hebrew יֶלֶד (yéled), Ge'ez ወልድ (wäld).
Pronunciation
Noun
وَلَد • (walad) m (plural أَوْلَاد (ʔawlād) or وُلْد (wuld) or وِلْدَان (wildān) or وِلْدَة (wilda))
- child (“son or daughter of any age”)
- أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَلْعَبَ مَعَ أَوْلَادِكَ.
- ʔurīdu ʔan ʔalʕaba maʕa ʔawlādika.
- I want to play with your children.
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 17:31:
- وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقٍ ۖ نَحْنُ نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ قَتْلَهُمْ كَانَ خِطْئًا كَبِيرًا
- walā taqtulū ʔawlādakum ḵašyata ʔimlāqin naḥnu narzuquhum wa-ʔiyyākum ʔinna qatlahum kāna ḵiṭʔan kabīran
- And do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them and for you. Indeed, their killing is ever a great sin.
- (collective) offspring, issue
- (colloquial) boy
- (colloquial) son
Declension
Descendants
- Maltese: wild
- → Azerbaijani: vələd
- → Bengali: ওলদ (ōlod)
- → Ottoman Turkish: ولد (veled) (see there for further descendants)
- → Uzbek: valad
(via plural form أَوْلَاد (ʔawlād))
References
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “ولد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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Chadian Arabic
Etymology
Verb
ولد • (wilid) I (non-past يلد (yalda))
- to give birth
References
- Heath, Judith, Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021) Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 153
Egyptian Arabic
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
ولد • (walad) m (plural ولاد (wilād))
Coordinate terms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
ولد • (walad, wilid) (verbal noun ولادة (wilāda), active participle والد (wālid), passive participle مولود (mawlūd))
- to give birth, to bear
Conjugation
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Hassaniya Arabic
Moroccan Arabic
North Levantine Arabic
Ottoman Turkish
South Levantine Arabic
Urdu
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