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والِد
father /ˈwaː.lid/
nounA1#144 most common
Also: parent, progenitor, begetter
Example sentences
هٰذا والِدي.
This is my father.
أينَ والِدُكَ الآنَ؟
Where is your father now?
ذَهَبتُ مع والِدي إلى السوقِ أمسِ.
I went with my father to the market yesterday.
يَحتَرِمُ الأبناءُ والِدَهُم كثيراً.
The children respect their father a great deal.
أَوصى الدينُ بِبِرِّ الوالِدَينِ والإحسانِ إليهِما.
Religion enjoins kindness to parents and good treatment of them.
لَم يَكُن والِدُهُ يَتَوَقَّعُ أَن يَبلُغَ ابنُهُ هٰذِهِ المَكانَةَ الرَّفيعَةَ في المُجتَمَعِ.
His father had not expected that his son would reach such a high standing in society.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | والِدٌ (wālidun) | والِدونَ (wālidūna) |
| Genitive | والِدٍ (wālidin) | والِدِينَ (wālidīna) |
| Accusative | والِداً (wālidan) | والِدِينَ (wālidīna) |
| Vocative | يا والِدُ (yā wālidu) | يا والِدونَ (yā wālidūna) |
Word family
وَلَدَ (walada)to give birth, beget
والِدة (wālida)mother
وَلَد (walad)child, son, boy
وِلادة (wilāda)birth, childbirth
مَولود (mawlūd)newborn
Etymology
والِد is the active participle of the verb وَلَدَ (walada), to give birth or to beget. It means literally the one who begets, and so it came to denote the father. The root w-l-d is old and runs across the Semitic languages. The feminine form, والِدة (wālida), means mother.
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