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دَفْع
payment /ˈdafʕ/
nounA1#691 most common
Also: pushing, propulsion, thrust, repelling, warding off
Example sentences
أُرِيدُ الدَّفْعَ بِالبِطَاقَةِ.
I want to pay by card.
طَرِيقَةُ الدَّفْعِ سَهْلَةٌ.
The payment method is easy.
يَجِبُ دَفْعُ الفَاتُورَةِ قَبْلَ نِهَايَةِ الشَّهْرِ.
The bill must be paid before the end of the month.
تَسْتَخْدِمُ السَّيَّارَةُ نِظَامَ الدَّفْعِ الرُّبَاعِيِّ عَلَى الطُّرُقِ الوَعْرَةِ.
The car uses the four-wheel drive system on rough roads.
أَدَّى دَفْعُ الهَجُومِ إِلَى خَسَائِرَ كَبِيرَةٍ فِي صُفُوفِ العَدُوِّ.
Repelling the attack led to heavy losses in the enemy's ranks.
يَعْتَمِدُ المُحَرِّكُ النَّفَّاثُ عَلَى قُوَّةِ الدَّفْعِ النَّاتِجَةِ عَنِ احْتِرَاقِ الوَقُودِ.
The jet engine relies on the thrust produced by the combustion of fuel.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دَفْعٌ | دُفُوعٌ |
| Genitive | دَفْعٍ | دُفُوعٍ |
| Accusative | دَفْعًا | دُفُوعًا |
| Vocative | يَا دَفْعُ | يَا دُفُوعُ |
Word family
دَفَعَto push, pay, repel
دِفَاعdefense
دَافِعmotive, driving force
مَدْفَعcannon, artillery piece
دَفْعَةa single payment, a batch, a thrustEtymology
دَفْع is the verbal noun of the verb دَفَعَ, which means to push, to repel, or to pay. It is built on the common فَعْل pattern that turns a verb into the name of its action. The root د-ف-ع runs through a wide family of words, from defense to artillery to motive. The shared idea is force applied to move something, whether a body, an attack, or money.
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