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عاوَد
to do (something) again, to repeat or resume an action /ˈʕaː.wa.da/
verbB1#2999 most common
Also: to retry, to recur (of an illness or event), to take up again
Example sentences
سأعاود الاتصال بك لاحقًا.
I will call you back later.
عاودَ الطفلُ اللعبَ بعد الاستراحة.
The child went back to playing after the break.
عاودته الحمى في منتصف الليل.
The fever came back to him at midnight.
عاودت الحكومةُ فتحَ الحدود بعد إغلاقها لأشهر.
The government reopened the borders after closing them for months.
يعاود الباحثون دراسةَ الظاهرة كلما ظهرت أدلة جديدة تستدعي ذلك.
Researchers take up the study of the phenomenon again whenever new evidence calls for it.
لم يكن قد استعاد كامل قواه بعدُ حين عاود الكرّةَ فخاض المباراة النهائية رغم نصائح الأطباء.
He had not yet fully recovered his strength when he tried again, taking part in the final match despite the doctors' advice.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أعاود | عاودتُ | سأعاود |
| 2sg | تعاود | عاودتَ | ستعاود |
| 3sg | يعاود | عاود | سيعاود |
| 1pl | نعاود | عاودنا | سنعاود |
| 2pl | تعاودون | عاودتم | ستعاودون |
| 3pl | يعاودون | عاودوا | سيعاودون |
Word family
عادto return, go back
أعادto redo, repeat, give something back
استعادto regain, retrieve, recall
معاودةrepetition, recurrence, resumption
عادةhabit, custom
Etymology
عاوَد belongs to the Arabic root ع-و-د (ʿ-w-d), which carries the basic sense of returning or going back to something. The verb is built on Measure III (the فاعَل pattern), a shape that often signals trying to do something or doing it back and forth, and it gives عاوَد the sense of taking an action up again. The same root produces عاد (to return), أعاد (to redo), and استعاد (to get back), and it is shared across Semitic languages.
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