وداع

Arabic

Root
و د ع (w-d-ʕ)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa.daːʕ/

Noun

وَدَاع • (wadāʕ) m

1. farewell

Declension

Declension of noun وَدَاع (wadāʕ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	وَدَاع wadāʕ	الْوَدَاع al-wadāʕ	وَدَاع wadāʕ
Nominative	وَدَاعٌ wadāʕun	الْوَدَاعُ al-wadāʕu	وَدَاعُ wadāʕu
Accusative	وَدَاعًا wadāʕan	الْوَدَاعَ al-wadāʕa	وَدَاعَ wadāʕa
Genitive	وَدَاعٍ wadāʕin	الْوَدَاعِ al-wadāʕi	وَدَاعِ wadāʕi

Derived terms

• وَدَاعًا (wadāʕan)
• الوَدَاع (al-wadāʕ)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: وداع (veda)
  • Turkish: veda
• → Persian: وداع
  • → Azerbaijani: vida
  • → Bengali: বিদায় (bidaẏ)
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: विदा (vidā), बिदा (bidā)
    • Urdu: وداع (vidā)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَدَاع (wadāʕ). Doublet of الوداع (elveda, interjection).

Noun

وداع • (veda)

1. farewell

Descendants

• Turkish: veda

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَدَاع (wadāʕ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [wa.ˈðɑːʔ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wɪ.d̪ɑ́ːʔ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wɪ.d̪ɑ́ːʔ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [wä.d̪ɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [wä.d̪ɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ve.d̪ɒ́ːʔ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [vi.d̪ɔ́ʔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	waḏā'
Dari reading?	widā'
Iranian reading?	vedâ'
Tajik reading?	vidoʾ

Noun

وداع • (vedâ')

1. (formal) farewell

   Synonym: خداحافظی (xodâhâfezi)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 138”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     یاد باد آن که ز ما وقت سفر یاد نکرد
     به وداعی دل غمدیدهٔ ما شاد نکرد

     yād bād ān ki zi mā waqt-i safar yād na-kard
     ba wadā'ē dil-i ğamdīda-yi mā šād na-kard

     Blessed by the memory of she who did not tell me when she would leave,
     Who did not make my grief-stricken heart happy with even a single farewell.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: vida
• → Bengali: বিদায় (bidaẏ)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: विदा (vidā), बिदा (bidā)
  • Urdu: وداع (vidā)

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “وداع”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “وداع”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “وداع”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press