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حَفِظ
to preserve /ħaˈfiðˤa/
verbB2#3608 most common
Also: to memorize, to protect, to keep safe
Example sentences
أَحْفَظُ الدَّرْسَ.
I memorize the lesson.
حَفِظَ الوَلَدُ الأُغْنِيَةَ.
The boy memorized the song.
يَحْفَظُ اللهُ أُسْرَتَنَا مِنَ الأَذَى.
God protects our family from harm.
احْفَظِي الطَّعَامَ فِي الثَّلَّاجَةِ حَتَّى لَا يَفْسُدَ.
Keep the food in the fridge so it doesn't spoil.
حَفِظَتْ سَارَة القُرْآنَ كَامِلًا وَهِيَ فِي الثَّانِيَةَ عَشْرَةَ مِنْ عُمْرِهَا.
Sara memorized the entire Quran when she was twelve years old.
رَغْمَ مُرُورِ عُقُودٍ، حَفِظَتِ الذَّاكِرَةُ الْجَمَاعِيَّةُ تَفَاصِيلَ تِلْكَ الْحَادِثَةِ الْمَأْسَاوِيَّةِ بِدِقَّةٍ مُذْهِلَةٍ.
Despite decades passing, the collective memory preserved the details of that tragic incident with striking precision.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَحْفَظُ | حَفِظْتُ | سَأَحْفَظُ |
| 2sg | تَحْفَظُ | حَفِظْتَ | سَتَحْفَظُ |
| 3sg | يَحْفَظُ | حَفِظَ | سَيَحْفَظُ |
| 1pl | نَحْفَظُ | حَفِظْنَا | سَنَحْفَظُ |
| 2pl | تَحْفَظُونَ | حَفِظْتُمْ | سَتَحْفَظُونَ |
| 3pl | يَحْفَظُونَ | حَفِظُوا | سَيَحْفَظُونَ |
Word family
حِفْظpreservation, memorization
حَافِظguardian, keeper; a Quran memorizer
مَحْفُوظpreserved, saved, memorized
تَحْفِيظthe act of teaching someone to memorize
حَفِيظprotector, guardian (used as a divine epithet)
Etymology
حَفِظ comes from the Semitic triliteral root ح ف ظ, a pattern of three consonants that carries the core sense of guarding or keeping something intact. Arabic builds an entire family of nouns and verbs from this same root by changing the vowels and adding prefixes or suffixes around it. Because Arabic is a Semitic language, not an Indo-European one, it has no PIE root or English cognate.
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