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وَصْف
description /ˈwasˤf/
nounB2#3100 most common
Also: depiction, characterization
Example sentences
هذا وصف جميل للمدينة.
This is a beautiful description of the city.
اكتب وصفاً لغرفتك.
Write a description of your room.
لا أجد وصفاً دقيقاً لهذا الشعور.
I can't find an accurate description for this feeling.
يحتوي الكتاب على وصف تفصيلي للأحداث التاريخية.
The book contains a detailed description of the historical events.
تجاوز وصف الروائي حدود الواقع ليخلق عالماً خيالياً.
The novelist's description went beyond reality to create a fictional world.
يصعب على النقاد الاتفاق على وصف موحد لهذا التيار الأدبي المعقد.
Critics find it hard to agree on a single description of this complex literary movement.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | وَصْفٌ | أَوْصَافٌ |
| Genitive | وَصْفٍ | أَوْصَافٍ |
| Accusative | وَصْفاً | أَوْصَافاً |
| Vocative | يا وَصْفُ | يا أَوْصَافُ |
Word family
وَصَفَto describe
صِفةquality, attribute, adjective
واصفdescriber, one who describes
موصوفdescribed, characterized
وصفةprescription, recipe
Etymology
Waṣf is a maṣdar, a verbal noun, built from the Arabic triliteral root w-ṣ-f, which carries the core sense of describing or characterizing something. It comes from the Form I verb waṣafa, meaning to describe. Arabic is a Semitic language, not an Indo-European one, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root or true Indo-European cognates.
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