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خَفَّض
to lower, to reduce /xafˈfadˤa/
verbB2#3662 most common
Also: to decrease, to cut (a price, a rate), to turn down (volume, speed)
Example sentences
خَفَّضَ البائعُ السعرَ.
The seller lowered the price.
خَفَّضْتُ صوتي في المكتبة.
I lowered my voice in the library.
يُخَفِّضُ السائقُ سرعةَ السيارةِ عند المنعطف.
The driver reduces the car's speed at the curve.
قررت الحكومة أن تُخَفِّضَ الضرائبَ على الشركات الصغيرة.
The government decided to reduce taxes on small businesses.
خَفَّضَ البنكُ المركزيُّ أسعارَ الفائدةِ لتحفيز الاقتصاد.
The central bank lowered interest rates to stimulate the economy.
على الرغم من الضغوط المتزايدة، رفض الوزير أن يُخَفِّضَ الإنفاقَ على التعليم رغم العجز المتنامي في الميزانية.
Despite mounting pressure, the minister refused to cut spending on education even as the budget deficit kept growing.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُخَفِّضُ | خَفَّضْتُ | سَأُخَفِّضُ |
| 2sg | تُخَفِّضُ | خَفَّضْتَ | سَتُخَفِّضُ |
| 3sg | يُخَفِّضُ | خَفَّضَ | سَيُخَفِّضُ |
| 1pl | نُخَفِّضُ | خَفَّضْنَا | سَنُخَفِّضُ |
| 2pl | تُخَفِّضُونَ | خَفَّضْتُمْ | سَتُخَفِّضُونَ |
| 3pl | يُخَفِّضُونَ | خَفَّضُوا | سَيُخَفِّضُونَ |
Word family
خَفَضto be low, to lower (Form I)
انخفضto decrease, to drop (intransitive)
خافضlowering, reducing
مُنخفضlow; a low-pressure system
تخفيضreduction, discount
Etymology
خَفَّض comes from the Semitic triliteral root kh-f-ḍ, whose base sense is lowness. The simple Form I verb خَفَض already means to be low or to lower. Doubling the middle radical produces Form II, خَفَّض, which gives the root a causative and intensive force: to actively make something lower. This pattern is standard in Arabic for turning a stative or simple verb into a deliberate, transitive action.
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