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فَساد
corruption /faˈsaːd/
nounB2#4233 most common
Also: decay, corruptness, mischief
Example sentences
الفساد سيء.
Corruption is bad.
يجب أن نحارب الفساد.
We must fight corruption.
انتشر الفساد في الحكومة.
Corruption spread through the government.
تحاول الحكومة الجديدة القضاء على الفساد المالي.
The new government is trying to eliminate financial corruption.
أدى الفساد الإداري إلى تدهور الخدمات العامة في البلاد.
Administrative corruption led to the decline of public services in the country.
لا يمكن إصلاح النظام السياسي دون معالجة جذور الفساد المتفشي في مؤسسات الدولة.
The political system cannot be reformed without addressing the roots of the corruption rampant in the state's institutions.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | فَسادٌ | None |
| Genitive | فَسادٍ | None |
| Accusative | فَساداً | None |
| Vocative | يا فَسادُ | None |
Word family
فَسَدَto become corrupt, spoiled, or rotten
فَاسِدcorrupt, rotten, spoiled
مُفْسِدcorrupter, one who causes corruption
أَفْسَدَto corrupt, spoil, or ruin something
إِفْسَادthe act of corrupting or sabotaging
Etymology
فَساد is the masdar, or verbal noun, of the triliteral Semitic root ف-س-د (f-s-d), which carries the sense of spoiling, rotting, or going bad. The root appears throughout the Quran, often describing moral corruption or mischief spread on earth, and it carried that moral weight into later legal and political Arabic. It is a native Semitic formation, not a borrowing, and has no Indo-European origin.
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