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مُقَدَّم
advance (put forward, as in an advance payment) /ˈmu.qad.dam/
adjectiveB1#2574 most common
Also: front, fore, senior, foremost, presented, submitted
Example sentences
المقعد المُقَدَّم في السيارة فارغ.
The front seat in the car is empty.
دفعتُ مبلغاً مُقَدَّماً للبائع.
I paid the seller an advance amount.
طلبت الشركة دفعة مُقَدَّمة قبل توقيع العقد.
The company asked for an advance payment before signing the contract.
هذا الطلب مُقَدَّم على غيره من حيث الأهمية.
This request takes priority over the others in importance.
كانت مصلحة الوطن مُقَدَّمة على المصالح الشخصية في خطابه.
National interest was placed above personal interests in his speech.
ظلت قضايا العدالة الاجتماعية مُقَدَّمة في أجندة الحكومة رغم الأزمات المتلاحقة.
Social justice issues stayed at the front of the government's agenda despite the successive crises.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مُقَدَّمٌ | مُقَدَّمُونَ |
| Genitive | مُقَدَّمٍ | مُقَدَّمِينَ |
| Accusative | مُقَدَّماً | مُقَدَّمِينَ |
| Vocative | مُقَدَّمُ | مُقَدَّمُونَ |
Word family
قدّمto present, offer, put forward
تقدّمto advance, make progress
قديمold, ancient
مُقَدِّمpresenter, host (the one who presents, not the thing presented)
مقدمةintroduction, foreword, front part
Etymology
مُقَدَّم comes from the triliteral Semitic root ق-د-م (q-d-m), which carries the idea of being ahead, in front, or old. The word is the passive participle of the Form II verb قدّم (qaddama), "to present" or "to put forward," so مُقَدَّم literally describes something that has been moved to the front or handed over in advance. Arabic is a Semitic language, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root; its cognates lie in other Semitic languages that share the same q-d-m root.
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