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تفاجأ

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Arabic

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.faː.d͡ʒa.ʔa/

Verb

تَفَاجَأَ (tafājaʔa) VI (non-past يَتَفَاجَأُ (yatafājaʔu), verbal noun تَفَاجُؤ (tafājuʔ))

  1. to be overtaken, to be descended upon or confronted unexpectedly, to be ambushed
    • 2017 October 24, “بوابات الاحتلال في الولجة تمهد لعزل المواطنين عن اراضيهم”, in AlQuds.com, archived from the original on 24 October 2017:
      .لكن الحاج برغوث ابونضال (70 عاما) تفاجأ خلال قبل عدة ايام بقيام سلطات الاحتلال الاسرائيلية بوضع بوابة حديدة على مدخل النفق الذي يوصله الى مقبرة العائلة خلف الجدار العنصري
      But pilgrim Barġūṯ Abū Niḍāl has been surprised some days ago by the undertaking of the Israeli occupation force to place a new gate in front of the entrance of the tunnel that connects him with the cemetery of his family behind the apartheid wall.
Conjugation
More information verbal noun الْمَصْدَر, active participle اِسْم الْفَاعِل ...

Etymology 2

Verb

تفاجأ (form III)

  1. تُفَاجَأُ (tufājaʔu) /tu.faː.d͡ʒa.ʔu/: inflection of فَاجَأَ (fājaʔa):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive indicative
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive indicative
  2. تُفَاجَأَ (tufājaʔa) /tu.faː.d͡ʒa.ʔa/: inflection of فَاجَأَ (fājaʔa):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive subjunctive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive subjunctive
  3. تُفَاجَأْ (tufājaʔ) /tu.faː.d͡ʒaʔ/: inflection of فَاجَأَ (fājaʔa):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive
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South Levantine Arabic

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic تَفَاجَأَ (tafājaʔa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tfaː.ʒaʔ/, [ɪtˈfæː.ʒaʔ], [ɪtˈfæː.d͡ʒaʔ]
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Verb

تفاجأ (tfājaʔ) VI (present بتفاجأ (bitfājaʔ))

  1. passive of فاجأ (fājaʔ): to be surprised

Conjugation

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