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أَوْدَى
to destroy, to cause the death of (someone or something) /ʔawˈdaː/
verbB2#4131 most common
Also: to kill, to ruin, wreck, to perish (intransitive use)
Example sentences
الحادثُ أودى بحياتِه.
The accident killed him.
أودى الفيضانُ بحياةِ عشراتِ الأشخاصِ.
The flood killed dozens of people.
قد يودي التدخينُ بصحةِ الإنسانِ على المدى الطويل.
Smoking may destroy a person's health in the long run.
أودت الحربُ الأهليةُ بمستقبلِ البلادِ الاقتصادي.
The civil war destroyed the country's economic future.
لم تكن الأزمةُ الماليةُ وحدها ما أودى بالشركة، بل سوءُ الإدارةِ أيضاً.
It was not the financial crisis alone that destroyed the company, but mismanagement too.
أودت الفتنُ المتلاحقةُ بوحدةِ الأمةِ التي كافح الأجدادُ طويلاً للحفاظِ عليها.
The successive conflicts destroyed the unity of the nation that the ancestors had struggled long to preserve.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُودِي | أَوْدَيْتُ | سَأُودِي |
| 2sg | تُودِي | أَوْدَيْتَ | سَتُودِي |
| 3sg | يُودِي | أَوْدَى | سَيُودِي |
| 1pl | نُودِي | أَوْدَيْنَا | سَنُودِي |
| 2pl | تُودُونَ | أَوْدَيْتُمْ | سَتُودُونَ |
| 3pl | يُودُونَ | أَوْدَوْا | سَيُودُونَ |
Word family
وَدَىto pay blood money (Form I)
مُودٍfatal, deadly
إيداءthe act of destroying or killing (verbal noun of أودى)
دِيَةblood money, compensation paid for a killing
Etymology
أَوْدَى is the Form IV (causative) verb built on the triliteral Semitic root و-د-ي. The base root carries a sense tied to death and its compensation: Form I وَدَى means to pay blood money for a killing, and the related noun دِيَة (diyah) is that blood money itself. Form IV adds a causative sense, so أَوْدَى shifted to mean to bring about someone's death or ruin.
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