وداع

Arabic

Root
و د ع (w d ʕ)
15 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa.daːʕ/

Noun

وَدَاع • (wadāʕ) m

1. farewell

Declension

Declension of noun وَدَاع (wadāʕ)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	وَدَاع wadāʕ	الْوَدَاع al-wadāʕ	وَدَاع wadāʕ
nominative	وَدَاعٌ wadāʕun	الْوَدَاعُ al-wadāʕu	وَدَاعُ wadāʕu
accusative	وَدَاعًا wadāʕan	الْوَدَاعَ al-wadāʕa	وَدَاعَ wadāʕa
genitive	وَدَاعٍ wadāʕin	الْوَدَاعِ al-wadāʕi	وَدَاعِ wadāʕi

Derived terms

• وَدَاعًا (wadāʕan)
• الوَدَاع (al-wadāʕ)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: وداع (veda)
  • Turkish: veda
• → Persian: وداع, الوداع (alvedâ')
  • → Azerbaijani: vida
  • → Bengali: বিদায় (bidaẏ)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: विदा (vidā), बिदा (bidā)

    Urdu: وداع (vidā)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَدَاع (wadāʕ). Doublet of الوداع (elveda, interjection).

Noun

وداع • (veda)

1. farewell

Descendants

• Turkish: veda

Persian

Alternative forms

• الوداع (alvedâ')

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَدَاع (wadāʕ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /wa.ˈdaːʔ/, /wi.ˈdaːʔ/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wɪ.d̪ɑ́ːʔ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wɪ.d̪ɑ́ːʔ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [wɪ.d̪ɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [wi.d̪ɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ve.d̪ɒ́ːʔ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [vi.d̪ɔ́ʔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	wadā', widā'
Dari reading?	widā'
Iranian reading?	vedâ'
Tajik reading?	vido'

Noun

وداع • (vedâ')

1. (formal) farewell

   Synonym: خداحافظی (xodâhâfezi)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 138”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:

     یاد باد آن که ز ما وقت سفر یاد نکرد
     به وداعی دل غمدیدهٔ ما شاد نکرد

     yād bād ān ki zi mā waqt-i safar yād na-kard
     ba wadā'ē dil-i ġamdīda-yi mā šād na-kard

     Blessed by the memory of she who did not tell me when she would leave,
     Who did not make my grief-stricken heart happy with even a single farewell.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: vida
• → Bengali: বিদায় (bidaẏ)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: विदा (vidā), बिदा (bidā)

  Urdu: وداع (vidā)

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “وداع”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “وداع”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “وداع”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press