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حادِث
accident /ˈħaː.diθ/
nounA1#529 most common
Also: incident, event, occurrence
Example sentences
وَقَعَ حادِثٌ في الشّارِعِ.
An accident happened in the street.
رَأَيْتُ حادِثَ سَيّارَةٍ هٰذا الصَّباحَ.
I saw a car accident this morning.
تَأَخَّرْتُ عَنِ العَمَلِ بِسَبَبِ حادِثِ مُرورٍ.
I was late for work because of a traffic accident.
أَصابَ الحادِثُ ثَلاثَةَ أَشخاصٍ، لٰكِنَّ أَحَداً لَمْ يَمُتْ.
The accident injured three people, but no one died.
تَحَوَّلَ حادِثٌ بَسيطٌ إلى أَزمَةٍ بَعدَ أَنْ تَدَخَّلَتِ الشُّرطَةُ بِعُنفٍ.
A minor incident turned into a crisis after the police intervened violently.
لا يَزالُ الغُموضُ يَكتَنِفُ مُلابَساتِ الحادِثِ الّذي هَزَّ الرَّأيَ العامَّ.
Ambiguity still surrounds the circumstances of the incident that shook public opinion.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | حادِثٌ | حَوادِثُ |
| Genitive | حادِثٍ | حَوادِثَ |
| Accusative | حادِثاً | حَوادِثَ |
| Vocative | يا حادِثُ | يا حَوادِثُ |
Word family
حادِثةincident, accident (feminine)
حَدَثeventحَديثconversation; tradition of the Prophet
أَحْدَثَto bring about, to cause
حُدوثoccurrence, happening
Etymology
حادِث is the active participle of the root ح-د-ث, which means to happen or to occur. Used as a noun, it names the thing that happens: an accident, an incident, or an event. The same root yields حَديث, meaning both new and speech, because the root also carries the sense of something newly arising.
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