فَوَّضَ delegate in Arabic
فَوَّضَ is how you say “delegate” in Arabic.
Root ف و ض f-w-ḍ. verb (form II). fawwaḍa.
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Meaning of delegate in Arabic
- commit or entrust a matter to someone, making them arbiter over it used in Qur'an 40:47, 'I commit my case to God'
- give a woman in marriage without specifying a dowry basis of the legal term nikāḥ al-tafwīḍ
Example sentence
وَإِذَا فَوَّضْتَ إِلَيْهَا أَسَاءَتْ
And if you give it free rein, it will do wrong.
فَوَّضْتَ you give free rein
Past-tense verb 'fawwadta' = 'you handed over, entrusted'; the '-ta' ending = 'you'.
The English is machine-translated.
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How it is used
Classically it means handing a matter over to someone as its arbiter, as in the Qur'anic phrase 'wa-ufawwiḍu amrī ilā Allāh' (Q40:47). It also names a specific marriage contract made without fixing a dowry, and gives rise to mufāwaḍah, the term for full copartnership or mutual conferring between two parties.
Words from the same root
- مُفَاوَضَةٌ full copartnership; mutual conferring and discussion
- تَفَاْوَضَ to share as equal partners, or converse together
- فَوْضَى a group mixed together, without a leader
- مُفَوِّضَةٌ a woman married without a stipulated dowry
Common questions
- How do you say "delegate" in Arabic?
- فَوَّضَ (fawwaḍa) — to commit or entrust a matter to someone.
- What is nikāḥ al-tafwīḍ?
- A marriage contract, from this same root, made without specifying a dowry.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).