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مَفْرُوض
imposed /mafˈruːdˤ/
adjectiveB1#2778 most common
Also: obligatory, supposed to, assumed
Example sentences
هذا الواجب مفروض.
This homework is mandatory.
من المفروض أن أذهب إلى المدرسة غدًا.
I'm supposed to go to school tomorrow.
كان من المفروض أن تتصل بي أمس.
You were supposed to call me yesterday.
الضريبة مفروضة على جميع المنتجات المستوردة.
The tax is imposed on all imported products.
القواعد المفروضة على الموظفين صارمة جدًا.
The rules imposed on employees are very strict.
ليس من المفروض أن نقبل كل الحلول المفروضة علينا دون دراسة متأنية.
We shouldn't accept every solution imposed on us without careful study.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَفْرُوضٌ | مَفْرُوضُونَ |
| Genitive | مَفْرُوضٍ | مَفْرُوضِينَ |
| Accusative | مَفْرُوضًا | مَفْرُوضِينَ |
| Vocative | مَفْرُوضٌ | مَفْرُوضُونَ |
Word family
فَرَضَto impose, decree, assume
فَرْضimposition, obligation, hypothesis
فَرِيضَةreligious duty, obligation
افْتِرَاضassumption, presumption
مُفْتَرَضassumed, presumed, supposedEtymology
The word comes from the Arabic root ف ر ض (f-r-ḍ), whose base sense is to cut a notch or fix a share, which broadened to mean decree, impose, or ordain. مفروض is the passive participle, built on the mafʿūl pattern, so it literally names something that has been decreed or imposed rather than a person doing the imposing. Arabic belongs to the Semitic family, not the Indo-European one, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root or Western cognates.
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