مذ

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Arabic

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Preposition

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مُذْ (muḏ) [with genitive or nominative]

  1. Alternative form of مُنْذُ (munḏu)
    • Di'bil Al-Khuza'i
      أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنِّي مُذْ ثَلَاثُونَ حِجَّةً / أَرُوحُ وَأَغْدُو دَائِمَ ٱلْحَسَرَاتِ
      ʔalam tara ʔannī muḏ ṯalāṯūna ḥijjatan / ʔarūḥu waʔaḡdū dāʔima l-ḥasarāti
      Can you not see
      That I, for thirty years,
      Would rise and sleep
      With sorrows deep.

Conjunction

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مُذْ (muḏ)

  1. Alternative form of مُنْذُ (munḏu)
    • Al-A'sha
      وَمَا زِلْتُ أَبْغِي ٱلْمَالَ مُذْ أَنَا يَافِعٌ
      وَلِيدًا وَكَهْلًا حِينَ شِبْتُ وَأَمْرَدَا
      wamā ziltu ʔabḡī l-māla muḏ ʔanā yāfiʕun
      walīdan wakahlan ḥīna šibtu waʔamradā
      I've long'd for wealth
      Since I was young:
      Newborn and adult,
      Beardless and aged.
    • Al-Mutanabbi
      أَرَى ٱلْعِرَاقَ طَوِيلَ اللَّيْلِ مُذْ نُعِيَتْ
      فَكَيْفَ لَيْلُ فَتَى الفِتْيَانِ فِي حَلَبِ
      ʔarā l-ʕirāqa ṭawīla l-layli muḏ nuʕiyat
      fakayfa laylu fatā l-fityāni fī ḥalabi
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

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  • The word acquires a vowel and becomes مُذُ (muḏu) or مُذِ (muḏi) whenever a syllabic consonant comes after it, as when a definite noun follows it.