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بَذَل
to exert (effort); to give freely /ˈba.ða.la/
verbB1#1943 most common
Also: to expend, spend generously, to offer without reserve, to sacrifice
Example sentences
بَذَلَ الوَلَدُ جُهْدًا.
The boy made an effort.
بَذَلَتْ أُمِّي كُلَّ وَقْتِها لِأَجْلِنا.
My mother gave all her time for us.
نَبْذُلُ قُصارى جُهْدِنا لِنَنْجَحَ في الامْتِحان.
We do our utmost to pass the exam.
بَذَلَ الأَطِبّاءُ جُهودًا كَبيرةً لإنْقاذِ المَرْضى.
The doctors made great efforts to save the patients.
يَبْذُلُ العُلَماءُ أَرْواحَهُم في سَبيلِ المَعْرِفةِ دونَ كَلَلٍ.
Scholars devote their lives to knowledge without tiring.
لَوْ بَذَلْنا وُسْعَنا مُنْذُ البِدايةِ لَما وَصَلْنا إلى هذا المَأزِقِ.
Had we exerted our utmost from the start, we would not have reached this impasse.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَبْذُلُ | بَذَلْتُ | سَأَبْذُلُ |
| 2sg | تَبْذُلُ | بَذَلْتَ | سَتَبْذُلُ |
| 3sg | يَبْذُلُ | بَذَلَ | سَيَبْذُلُ |
| 1pl | نَبْذُلُ | بَذَلْنا | سَنَبْذُلُ |
| 2pl | تَبْذُلُونَ | بَذَلْتُمْ | سَتَبْذُلُونَ |
| 3pl | يَبْذُلُونَ | بَذَلُوا | سَيَبْذُلُونَ |
Word family
بَذْلact of giving, expenditure
باذِلgenerous, freely giving
مَبْذُولgiven freely, expended
بَذّالa very generous person
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic triconsonantal root ب-ذ-ل (b-dh-l), which carries the sense of giving freely and holding nothing back. In Classical Arabic it settled into the meaning of expending money, effort, or the self for a cause. From the same root grew ابتذال, which took a negative turn toward the trite and the vulgar, since what is given out too freely loses its worth.
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