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داء
disease /ˈdaːʔ/
nounB2#3405 most common
Also: illness, ailment, malady
Example sentences
هذا داءٌ خطير.
This is a dangerous disease.
يعاني جدي من داء السكري.
My grandfather suffers from diabetes.
لكل داءٍ دواء.
Every disease has a cure.
انتشر هذا الداء بسرعة بين السكان.
This disease spread quickly among the population.
الحسد داءٌ يفتك بصاحبه قبل أن يصيب غيره.
Envy is a disease that destroys its host before it harms anyone else.
ظل الفساد داءً عضالاً استعصى على كل محاولات الإصلاح.
Corruption remained an incurable disease that resisted every attempt at reform.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | داءٌ | أدواءٌ |
| Genitive | داءٍ | أدواءٍ |
| Accusative | داءً | أدواءً |
| Vocative | يا داءُ | يا أدواءُ |
Word family
دواءmedicine, remedy
أدواءdiseases (plural)
داوىto treat, to cure
تداوىto seek treatment, to be cured
مداواةtreatment, curing
Etymology
Daʾ comes from the native Semitic root d-w-ʾ, tied to the basic idea of sickness or weakness. The same root gives Arabic dawāʾ, medicine, so one root names both the ailment and its cure. A similar Semitic root appears in Hebrew davah, meaning faintness or sickness, though the exact historical link is a matter for comparative Semitic linguistics, not certainty.
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