دفقdafq in Arabic

Example sentences

• والدفق صب الماء

  And "dafq" means the pouring of water.

  وَالدَّفْقُ — And 'dafq'. wa- (and) on a noun made definite by al-, 'the pouring', standing as the topic of a definition. Its subject ending marks it as what the sentence will explain; here a technical term is being defined.

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• يقال دفقت الماء فهو مدفوق ودافق ومندفق

  It is said, "I poured the water," so it is "madfuq," "dafiq," and "mundafiq."

  دَفَقْتُ — I poured. A past-tense verb 'I poured', the -tu ending marking the first-person 'I' doer. The speaker-subject is carried by the ending, not a separate pronoun; this opens a quoted sample sentence.

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• تقول دفقته فاندفق كما تقول كسرته فانكسر

  You say, 'I poured it, so it poured forth,' just as you say, 'I broke it, so it broke.'

  دَفَقْتَهُ — I poured it. A past-tense verb with -ta marking the 'you' doer and -hu (it) attached as object, 'you poured it'. One word bundles the doer-ending and the object-pronoun, covering what English needs three words for.

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• وقيل هو على النسب لا على الفعل أي ذي دفق أو ذات

  And it is said that it is a relational adjective, not an active one, meaning possessing "dafq."

  دَفْقٍ — 'dafq'. An indefinite verbal noun in the genitive, the owned noun of 'possessor of pouring'. It names the act of pouring as the quality possessed; the pairing reads 'one that has gushing'.

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• ولا يلزم من ذلك أن يكون هو فاعل الدفق

  And it is not required that he be the performer of the pouring.

  الدَّفْقِ — of the pouring. A verbal noun made definite by al-, 'the pouring', the owned second noun of 'doer of the pouring', so it is in the genitive. The pairing names the action whose performer is in question.

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