أفسد

Elative of فَاسِد‎ (fāsid, “spoiled, rotten; corrupt; destructive”), from the root ف س د‎ (f-s-d).

أَفْسَدَ • (ʔafsada) IV, non-past يُفْسِدُ‎‎ (yufsidu)

1. to spoil, to damage, to ruin
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:11-12:

     ‏وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لَا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ قَالُوا إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُصْلِحُونَ. أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْمُفْسِدُونَ وَلَٰكِن لَّا يَشْعُرُونَ.‎‎

     waʔiḏā qīla lahum lā tufsidū fī l-ʔarḍi qālū ʔinnamā naḥnu muṣliḥūna. ʔalā ʔinnahum humu al-mufsidūna walākin llā yašʕurūna.

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• أَصْلَحَ‎ (ʔaṣlaḥa)

أَفْسَد • (ʔafsad)

1. elative degree of فَاسِد‎ (fāsid):
   1. more spoiled, more rotten; most spoiled, most rotten
   2. more corrupt; most corrupt
   3. more destructive; most destructive

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Lane, Edward William (1863), “فسد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “فاسد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen