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دَفْعَة
installment /ˈdafʕa/
nounB2#3522 most common
Also: batch or group (e.g. a graduating class), push or shove, shipment or consignment
Example sentences
هذه الدفعة الأولى من ثمن البيت.
This is the first installment of the house's price.
يجب أن أدفع الدفعة الثانية هذا الشهر.
I must pay the second installment this month.
تخرجت دفعة 2020 من الجامعة بامتياز.
The class of 2020 graduated from the university with honors.
وصلت دفعة جديدة من البضائع إلى الميناء صباح اليوم.
A new shipment of goods arrived at the port this morning.
أثارت دفعة اللاجئين الأخيرة جدلاً واسعاً في البرلمان.
The latest wave of refugees sparked wide debate in parliament.
التزم المقاول بسداد الدفعات المتبقية وفق الجدول الزمني المتفق عليه رغم التقلبات الاقتصادية.
The contractor committed to paying the remaining installments according to the agreed timetable despite the economic fluctuations.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دَفْعَةٌ | دَفَعَاتٌ |
| Genitive | دَفْعَةٍ | دَفَعَاتٍ |
| Accusative | دَفْعَةً | دَفَعَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا دَفْعَةُ | يا دَفَعَاتُ |
Word family
دَفَعَto push; to pay
دافِعmotive, incentiveدِفاعdefenseمِدْفَعcannonاِنْدِفاعimpulsiveness, rushing forward
Etymology
Daf'ah comes from the native Arabic root d-f-ʿ, which carries the core sense of pushing or driving something forward. The noun pattern fa'lah turns the verb into a word for a single instance of that action, so daf'ah first meant one push or shove. Usage stretched this to a single act of pushing money forward, hence a payment installment, and to a group of people or goods pushed through together, hence a batch or cohort. The root is Semitic, not Indo-European.
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