Arabic vocabulary
وَافَقَaligns in Arabic
وَافَقَ is how you say “aligns” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Root و ف ق (w-f-q)verb (form III)Pronounced wāfaqa
Meaning of aligns in Arabic
- to agree, accord, be of one mind with (someone), on a matter — used of two parties reaching the same opinion
- to coincide with, suit, match, tally with — used of things corresponding to one another
- to encounter, meet with — syn. with ṣādafahu
Wāfaqa most often takes a direct object or 'ʿalā' + a matter, describing one person or thing agreeing, conforming, or coinciding with another — whether two people sharing an opinion, or a punishment corresponding to an offense. It sits alongside waffaqa (God directing someone rightly) and ittafaqa (something merely happening, or two parties agreeing) as the root's cluster of 'agreement/fittingness' senses.
Words from the same root
- وَفِقَto be right, agreeable with what was wished (form I)
- وَفَّقَto accommodate, dispose, or direct rightly; to reconcile two things (form II)
- أَوْفَقَto find one's affair agreeable with one's wish (form IV)
- اِتَّفَقَto happen, chance; to agree together on a matter (form VIII)
- تَوْفِيقٌa legal document; a pleading
- إِتِّفَاقِىٌّcasual, accidental
Common questions
- How do you say "aligns" in Arabic?
- وَافَقَ (wāfaqa) — it describes one thing agreeing, conforming, or coinciding with another.
- What is the difference between وَافَقَ and اِتَّفَقَ؟
- Wāfaqa (form III) is 'he agreed/conformed with' a specific person or thing; ittafaqa (form VIII) means 'it happened, chanced' or 'they agreed together' on a matter.
Definitions synthesised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).
Example sentences
فَوَافَقْتُهُ حِينَ اِسْتَيْقَظَ،
So I came upon him when he woke up,
فَوَافَقْتُهُ — so I met him. A dense chunk: the 'fa-' (so/then) advances the story, fused onto a past verb whose '-tu' means 'I' and whose '-hu' means 'him' as object, giving 'so I met him'. One word holds the connector, the doer and the person met. The verb is built on a stem-pattern of meeting or coinciding with someone.
From: A Night with the Prophet →
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