فدى

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Arabic

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Root
ف د ي (f d y)
5 terms

Pronunciation

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Verb

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فَدَى (fadā) I (non-past يَفْدِي (yafdī), verbal noun فَدًى (fadan) or فِدًى (fidan) or فِداء (fidāʔ)) (transitive)

  1. to free (someone) from captivity or from danger by paying a sum of money or by giving away something to buy him back; to ransom (someone) [with بِ (bi) ‘for/with/through something’]
    • 9th–10th century CE, al-Ṭabarī, جامع البيان في تأويل القرآن:
      تُحَيِّي بِالسَّلَامَةِ أُمُّ عَمْرٍو * وَهَلْ لَكِ بَعْدَ رَهْطِكِ مِنْ سَلَامِ
      ذَرِينِي أَصْطَبِحُ بِكْرًا فَإِنِّي * رَأَيْتُ الْمَوْتَ نَقَّبَ عَنْ هِشَامِ
      وَوَدَّ بَنُو الْمُغِيرَةِ لَوْ فَدَوْهُ * بِأَلْفٍ مِنْ رِجَالٍ أَوْ سَوَامِ
      tuḥayyī bi-s-salāmati ʔummu ʕamrin * wahal laki baʕda rahṭiki min salāmī
      ḏarīnī ʔaṣṭabiḥu bikran faʔinnī * raʔaytu l-mawta naqqaba ʕan hišāmī
      wawadda banū l-muḡīrati law fadawhu * biʔalfin min rijālin ʔaw sawāmī
      ʾUmm Amr wishes us well!
      Have you, without your kin, ever been well?
      Let me drink, for I have seen Death
      Rooting about, hunting Hišām.
      The clansmen of Muḡīrah wish
      They could have ransomed him
      For even a thousand head
      Of grazers or of men.
    • 11th–12th century CE, Ibn Zuhr, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      يَا غُصْنَ نَقَا مُكَلَّلًا بِٱلذَّهَبِ – أَفْدِيكَ مِنَ ٱلرَّدَى بِأُمِّي وَأَبِي
      yā ḡuṣna naqā mukallalan bi-ḏ-ḏahabi – ʔafdīka mina r-radā biʔummī waʔabī
      Oh gold-wreathed sand dune branch – I would ransom you from death with my mother and father!

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