B1verb
تَفَاوَضَ
tafāwaḍa
to negotiate (Form VI)
Example
تَفاوَضَ الطَّرَفانِ لِلوُصولِ إلى اتِّفاق.
tafāwaḍa ṭ-ṭarafāni li-l-wuṣūli ilā ittifāq.
The two parties negotiated to reach an agreement.
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Quran 40:44
Arabic root
ف-و-ض
Fa-Waw-Dad
2 words from this root family
About this root
Fa-Waw-Dad (ف-و-ض) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: tafāwaḍa (to negotiate (Form VI)), mufāwaḍāt (negotiations).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 40:44.
Themes: Advanced Verbs, Media Politics
Words from this root
| Word | Meaning | Type | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|
تَفَاوَضَ tafāwaḍa | to negotiate (Form VI) | verb, B1 | Verbs of Communication |
مُفَاوَضَات mufāwaḍāt | negotiations | noun, B2 | Elections & Democracy |
In the Quran
فَسَتَذْكُرُونَ مَآ أَقُولُ لَكُمْ ۚ وَأُفَوِّضُ أَمْرِىٓ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ بَصِيرٌۢ بِٱلْعِبَادِAnd ye will remember what I say unto you. I confide my cause unto Allah. Lo! Allah is Seer of (His) slaves.
Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).
Word cards with examples
B2noun
مُفَاوَضَات
mufāwaḍāt
negotiations
Example
بَدَأَتِ المُفاوَضاتُ بَينَ الطَّرَفَين.
badaʾati l-mufāwaḍātu bayna ṭ-ṭarafayn.
Negotiations between the two sides began.
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و-ف-ق
وَافَقَ · to agree
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