Appendix:Arabic roots/و ف ق

Arabic

Root

و ف ق • (w f q)

1. Related to suiting and befitting.

Derived terms

Verbs and verb forms

• Form I: وَفِقَ (wafiqa)
  • Verbal noun: وَفْق (wafq), وَفِقَ ( wafiqa)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَوْفُوق (mawfūq)
• Form II: وَفَّقَ (waffaqa)
  • Verbal noun: تَوْفِيق (tawfīq)
  • Active participle: مُوَفِّق (muwaffiq)
  • Passive participle: مُوَفَّق (muwaffaq)
• Form III: وَافَقَ (wāfaqa)
  • Verbal noun: مُوَافَقَة (muwāfaqa)
  • Active participle: مُوَافِق (muwāfiq)
  • Passive participle: مُوَافَق (muwāfaq)
• Form V: تَوَفَّقَ (tawaffaqa)
  • Verbal noun: تَوَفُّق (tawaffuq)
  • Active participle: مُتَوَفِّق (mutawaffiq)
  • Passive participle: مُتَوَفَّق (mutawaffaq)
• Form VIII: اِتَّفَقَ (ittafaqa)
  • Verbal noun: اِتِّفَاق (ittifāq)
  • Active participle: مُتَّفِق (muttafiq)
  • Passive participle: مُتَّفَق (muttafaq)

Nouns

• وَفْق m sg (wafq, “sufficiency; agreement, conformity, accordance; harmony, concord”)
• وَفقة f sg (“wage for piecework”)
• تَوْفيق m sg (“confirmation, adaptation, accommodation; balancing, settlement, adjustment; reconciliation, mediation, arbitration, peacemaking; success, happy outcome, good fortune, prosperity”)
• وِفاق m sg (wifāq, “accordance, conformity; unity, concord, harmony; consent, assent; agreement, covenant”)
• مُوافَقة f sg (mūfaqa, “agreement, conformity; accordance; correspondence, analogy; suitability, fitness; approval, consent, assent, authorisation, sanction”)
• تَوافُق m sg (tawāfuq, “coincidence, congruence; agreement, conformity”)
• اِتِّفاق m sg (ittifāq, “coincidence, congruence; agreement, conformity; accident, chance; covenant, compact, contract; understanding, arrangement; agreement, treaty, pact”)
• اِتِّفاقية f sg (“agreement, treaty; convention, concordat”)

Adjectives

• اَوْفَق m sg (awfaq, “more suitable, more appropriate, fitter”)
• اِتِّفاقي m sg (“accidental, fortuitous, chance; based on convention, conventional”)
• مُوَفَّق m sg (muwaffaq, “successful, prospering, fortunate, lucky”)
• مُوافِق m sg (mūfiq, “accordant, congruous, consistent, concordant, corresponding, analogous; suitable, fit, appropriate; agreeable, acceptable, convenient, favourable, propitious, wholesome, beneficial, conducive”)
• مُتَوَفِّق m sg (mutawaffiq, “successful, prospering, fortunate, lucky”)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1960) “Arabic roots/و ف ق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz