فائدة

See also: فائده‎, فائدہ‎, فایده‎, فایدہ‎, and فايدة‎

Arabic

Root
ف ي د‎ (f-y-d)

Etymology

Derived from the feminine form of active participle of the verb فَادَ‎ (fāda).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /faː.ʔi.da/
Audio (file)

Noun

فَائِدَة • (fāʔida) f (plural فَوَائِد‎ (fawāʔid))

usefulness, profit, advantage, benefit
- a. 965, Al-Mutanabbi, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
  ‏مَصَائِبُ قَوْمٍ عِنْدَ قَوْمٍ فَوَائِدُ‎‎
  maṣāʔibu qawmin ʕinda qawmin fawāʔidu
  The misfortunes of some people are advantages to others.
gain
(commerce) interest
profitable saying, moral, useful remark, note, annotation
sign

Declension

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

Synonyms

مَنْفَعَة‎ (manfaʕa)
نَفْع‎ (nafʕ) (uncountable)

Antonyms

مَضَرَّة‎ (maḍarra)
ضَرَر‎ (ḍarar)

Derived terms

مَصَائِبُ قَوْمٍ عِنْدَ قَوْمٍ فَوَائِدُ‎ (maṣāʔibu qawmin ʕinda qawmin fawāʔidu, proverb)

Descendants

Maltese: fejda
→ Armenian: ֆայդա (fayda)
Moroccan Arabic: فايدة‎ (fāyda)
→ Azerbaijani: fayda
→ Bashkir: файҙа (fayźa)
→ Chuvash: пайта (pajt̬a)
→ Indonesian: faedah
→ Karaim: файда
→ Ottoman Turkish: فائده‎ (faʼide), فایده‎ (fayda)
- Turkish: fayda
- → Bulgarian: файда́ (fajdá)
- → Crimean Tatar: файда
- → Serbo-Croatian: fàjda / фа̀јда
→ Swahili: faida
→ Tatar: файда (fayda), fayda
→ Uyghur: پايدا‎ (payda)
→ Uzbek: foyda

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “فائدة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

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