دَاء disease in Arabic
دَاء is how you say “disease” in Arabic.
Root د و أ d-w-ʾ. noun (verbal noun / maṣdar). dāʾ.
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Meaning of disease in Arabic
- disease, disorder, distemper, sickness, illness, malady physical; can be external or internal to the body
- vice, defect, fault, blemish moral sense, e.g. dāʾ ash-shuḥḥ, 'the vice of avarice,' said to be the gravest of vices
Example sentence
فقد استخرج منك داء العجب، وألبست خلعة العبودية
For it extracted the disease of conceit from you, and clothed you in the garment of servitude.
دَاءَ disease
da means 'disease, ailment'; the object of 'extracted' (object form), heading an 'of…' phrase with the next word.
The English is machine-translated.
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How it is used
Dāʾ covers both a literal bodily ailment and a figurative moral failing, so it can describe a physical illness or a character flaw like avarice. It also occurs in fixed phrases naming the 'disease' proverbially associated with something, e.g. dāʾ adh-dhiʾb for hunger, where the sense shifts entirely to the figurative.
Words from the same root
- دَآءَ verb (form I): to become diseased, disordered, sick
- أَدَآءَ verb (form IV): to become diseased; also transitive, to afflict (someone) with disease
- أَدْوَآءٌ plural of dāʾ, 'diseases/vices' — noted as the sole final-hamza singular with a final-hamza plural
- دَيِّئٌ adjective: diseased, sick (epithet applied to a person)
- أَدْوَأُ comparative: more/most diseased, i.e. worse (of a vice or fault)
- مُدِىْءٌ adjective: diseased, sick (synonym of dayyiʾ)
More example sentences
عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أصل كل داء البردة
The Prophet, peace be upon him, said: The root of every illness is fullness.
دَاءٍ illness
This is the owner at the end of the chain, 'illness', in the genitive and left indefinite so it means any illness. The whole phrase reads 'the root of every illness'.
Common questions
- How do you say "disease" in Arabic?
- دَاء (dāʾ).
- Does دَاء only mean a physical illness?
- No — it also means a moral vice or fault, as in dāʾ ash-shuḥḥ, 'the vice of avarice.'
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).