يد

See also: ید

Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *yad-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jad/

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Noun

يَد • (yad) f (dual يَدَان (yadān), plural أَيْدٍ (ʔaydin) or أَيَادٍ (ʔayādin))

1. hand

Declension

Declension of noun يَد (yad)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	يَد yad	الْيَد al-yad	يَد yad
Nominative	يَدٌ yadun	الْيَدُ al-yadu	يَدُ yadu
Accusative	يَدًا yadan	الْيَدَ al-yada	يَدَ yada
Genitive	يَدٍ yadin	الْيَدِ al-yadi	يَدِ yadi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	يَدَيْن yadayn	الْيَدَيْن al-yadayn	يَدَيْ yaday
Nominative	يَدَانِ yadāni	الْيَدَانِ al-yadāni	يَدَا yadā
Accusative	يَدَيْنِ yadayni	الْيَدَيْنِ al-yadayni	يَدَيْ yaday
Genitive	يَدَيْنِ yadayni	الْيَدَيْنِ al-yadayni	يَدَيْ yaday
Plural	broken plural triptote in ـٍ (-in)‎; broken plural diptote in ـٍ (-in)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَيْدِي‎; أَيَادِي ʔaydī‎; ʔayādī	الْأَيْدِي‎; الْأَيَادِي al-ʔaydī‎; al-ʔayādī	أَيْدِي‎; أَيَادِي ʔaydī‎; ʔayādī
Nominative	أَيْدٍ‎; أَيَادٍ ʔaydin‎; ʔayādin	الْأَيْدِي‎; الْأَيَادِي al-ʔaydī‎; al-ʔayādī	أَيْدِي‎; أَيَادِي ʔaydī‎; ʔayādī
Accusative	أَيْدِيًا‎; أَيَادِيَ ʔaydiyan‎; ʔayādiya	الْأَيْدِيَ‎; الْأَيَادِيَ al-ʔaydiya‎; al-ʔayādiya	أَيْدِيَ‎; أَيَادِيَ ʔaydiya‎; ʔayādiya
Genitive	أَيْدٍ‎; أَيَادٍ ʔaydin‎; ʔayādin	الْأَيْدِي‎; الْأَيَادِي al-ʔaydī‎; al-ʔayādī	أَيْدِي‎; أَيَادِي ʔaydī‎; ʔayādī

Derived terms

• يَدَوِيّ (yadawiyy, “manual”, adjective)
• يَدِيّ (yadiyy, “manual”, adjective)
• يَدَى (yadā, “to hurt the hand; to service”, verb)
• يَادَى (yādā, “to retribute”, verb)
• أَيْدَى (ʔaydā, “to corroborate, to give hand to”, verb)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “يد”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 849–850
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “يد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 516–517
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “يد”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1623–1626
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “يد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN