لذيذ delicious in Arabic
لذيذ is how you say “delicious” in Arabic.
Root ل ذ ذ l-dh-dh. adjective (epithet, from intransitive verb form I). ladhīdh.
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Meaning of delicious in Arabic
- pleasant, delightful, delicious, luscious, sweet, or savoury used of food, drink (e.g. شَرَابٌ لَذِيذٌ, 'a delicious drink'), or things generally
- desirable; an object of desire the same epithet also carries the sense of something craved or wished for
- pleasant, delightful (of a person's company or talk) e.g. رَجُلٌ لَذِيذٌ, 'a man of pleasant conversation'; also said of one enjoying pleasure
- wine as a substantive, اللذيذ can denote wine itself, plural لُذّ / لِذَاذ
Example sentence
ألم تر إلى المريض كيف يمتنع عن الطعام اللذيذ خوفًا من زيادة المرض، ويشرب الدواء المرّ رجاء للشفاء؟
Have you not seen how a sick person refrains from delicious food fearing an increase in illness, and drinks bitter medicine hoping for a cure?
اللَّذِيذِ delicious
An adjective 'delicious' describing the food. It trails its noun and copies its definiteness and form, agreeing with it: the delicious food.
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How it is used
لذيذ is the everyday adjective for describing something delicious or delightful, most often food and drink, but also a pleasant life (عَيْشٌ لَذِيذ) or pleasant conversation. It is built directly from the intransitive verb لَذَّ, 'to be pleasant,' and shares its root with a full family of verbs and nouns about experiencing or giving delight.
Words from the same root
- لَذَّ to be/become pleasant; to find something pleasant, delight in it (form I)
- لَذَّةٌ pleasure, delight; pleasantness (opposite of pain), pl. لَذَّات
- تَلَذَّذَ to be pleased or delighted; to delight oneself (form V)
- إِلْتَذَّ to delight in, take pleasure in something (form VIII)
- إِسْتَلَذَّ to find something pleasant; to experience delight (form X)
- لَذَاذَةٌ pleasantness, delightfulness (verbal noun of لَذَّ)
- مَلَذٌّ a place of pleasure or delight, pl. مَلَاذّ
Common questions
- How do you say "delicious" in Arabic?
- لذيذ (ladhīdh).
- What is the root of لذيذ and what does it mean?
- The root is ل ذ ذ (l-dh-dh), whose verb لَذَّ means 'to be or become pleasant, delightful, or delicious.'
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).