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فَتَّش
to search, to inspect /fatˈtaʃa/
verbB2#3661 most common
Also: to inspect, to frisk, to rummage through
Example sentences
فتّش الشرطي عن الحقيبة.
The policeman searched for the bag.
فتّشت أمي في غرفتي.
My mother searched my room.
فتّش الجنود السيارة عند الحاجز.
The soldiers searched the car at the checkpoint.
فتّشوا كل الأدراج بحثاً عن المفتاح المفقود.
They searched all the drawers looking for the lost key.
فتّش المحقق في ملفات القضية القديمة قبل أن يتوصل إلى دليل جديد.
The investigator searched through the old case files before arriving at new evidence.
على الرغم من أنهم فتّشوا المبنى بأكمله مرات عدة، إلا أن الأدلة التي كانوا يبحثون عنها ظلّت مخفية بمهارة.
Although they searched the entire building several times, the evidence they were looking for remained skillfully hidden.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أفتّش | فتّشتُ | سأفتّش |
| 2sg | تفتّش | فتّشتَ | ستفتّش |
| 3sg | يفتّش | فتّش | سيفتّش |
| 1pl | نفتّش | فتّشنا | سنفتّش |
| 2pl | تفتّشون | فتّشتم | ستفتّشون |
| 3pl | يفتّشون | فتّشوا | سيفتّشون |
Word family
تفتيشinspection, search
مفتّشinspector
تفتيشاتinspections (plural)
مفتّشيةinspectorate, inspection bureau
Etymology
Fattasha comes from the triliteral Arabic root f-t-sh, which carries the core sense of searching or probing. The verb follows the Form II pattern (faʿʿala), which doubles the middle root letter to give an intensive or repeated quality, so the word means to search thoroughly rather than glance once. The same root also produced tafttīsh (inspection) and mufattish (inspector), both common in security and administrative language across the Arab world.
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