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زاد
to increase /ˈzaː.da/
verbB1#1482 most common
Also: to grow, to add, to exceed
Example sentences
زادَ السِّعرُ اليوم.
The price went up today.
زادَ عددُ الطُّلّابِ هذا العام.
The number of students increased this year.
أُريدُ أن أَزيدَ مِن ساعاتِ دِراستي.
I want to increase my study hours.
كُلَّما زادَ الطَّلَبُ على المُنتَجِ، ارتَفَعَ سِعرُه.
The more demand for the product rose, the higher its price went.
بِتَأخُّرِه عن الاجتماعِ زادَ الطّينَ بِلّةً.
By being late to the meeting, he made a bad situation worse.
إذا لم نَتَّخِذْ إجراءاتٍ حاسمةً، فإنَّ الفجوةَ بين الأغنياءِ والفقراءِ سَتَزيدُ اتِّساعًا.
If we do not take decisive measures, the gap between rich and poor will widen further.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَزيدُ | زِدْتُ | سَأَزيدُ |
| 2sg | تَزيدُ | زِدْتَ | سَتَزيدُ |
| 3sg | يَزيدُ | زادَ | سَيَزيدُ |
| 1pl | نَزيدُ | زِدْنا | سَنَزيدُ |
| 2pl | تَزيدونَ | زِدْتُم | سَتَزيدونَ |
| 3pl | يَزيدونَ | زادوا | سَيَزيدونَ |
Word family
زِيادة (ziyāda)increase, addition
مَزيد (mazīd)more, additional amount
زائِد (zāʾid)extra, surplus, plus
تَزايَدَ (tazāyada)to increase gradually, multiply
مُتَزايِد (mutazāyid)increasing, growing
Etymology
Zāda comes from the Semitic root z-y-d, which carries the sense of adding or exceeding. It is a hollow Form I verb, so the weak middle radical surfaces as a long ā in the past (zāda) and as ī in the present (yazīdu). The same root yields common words like ziyāda (increase) and the personal names Ziyad and Yazid.
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