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فَقَد
to lose /ˈfa.qa.da/
verbA1#477 most common
Also: to miss (feel someone's absence), to be deprived of, to lose (consciousness, hope)
Example sentences
فَقَدْتُ مِفْتاحي.
I lost my key.
فَقَدَ الوَلَدُ حَقيبَتَهُ في المَدْرَسَةِ.
The boy lost his bag at school.
فَقَدَتْ جَدَّتي نَظَّارَتَها مَرَّةً أُخْرى.
My grandmother lost her glasses again.
بَعْدَ الحادِثِ، فَقَدَ السائِقُ وَعْيَهُ لِعِدَّةِ دَقائِقَ.
After the accident, the driver lost consciousness for several minutes.
حينَ سَمِعَ الخَبَرَ، فَقَدَ الأَمَلَ تَماماً وَلَمْ يَعُدْ يُصَدِّقُ أَنَّ شَيْئاً سَيَتَغَيَّرُ.
When he heard the news, he lost all hope and no longer believed anything would change.
لَمْ تَفْقِدِ الأُمَّةُ أَرْضَها فَحَسْبُ، بَلْ فَقَدَتْ مَعَها ذاكِرَةً جَماعِيَّةً ظَلَّتِ الأَجْيالُ تَتَوارَثُها.
The nation lost more than its land: it lost with it a collective memory that generations kept handing down.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَفْقِدُ | فَقَدْتُ | سَأَفْقِدُ |
| 2sg | تَفْقِدُ | فَقَدْتَ | سَتَفْقِدُ |
| 3sg | يَفْقِدُ | فَقَدَ | سَيَفْقِدُ |
| 1pl | نَفْقِدُ | فَقَدْنا | سَنَفْقِدُ |
| 2pl | تَفْقِدونَ | فَقَدْتُمْ | سَتَفْقِدونَ |
| 3pl | يَفْقِدونَ | فَقَدوا | سَيَفْقِدونَ |
Word family
فَقْد (faqd)loss
فُقْدان (fuqdān)loss, lack, deprivation
مَفْقود (mafqūd)lost, missing
فَقيد (faqīd)the deceased; one who is mourned
اِفْتَقَدَ (iftaqada)to miss, to seek what is absent
Etymology
فَقَد comes from the Semitic root f-q-d, which clusters around noticing what is present and what is gone. Arabic narrowed it to loss and absence: to lose a thing, or to feel that a person is no longer there. The same root took other paths elsewhere, toward counting and mustering in Hebrew and toward entrusting in Akkadian.
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