ميلاد

See also: میلاد‎

Arabic

Etymology

Morphologically from the root و ل د‎ (w-l-d).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /miː.laːd/

Noun

مِيلَاد • (mīlād) m (plural مَوَالِيد‎ (mawālīd))

  1. birth
  2. time of birth, nativity
  3. birthday
  4. (in the plural) age classes, age groups
  5. Christmas, abbreviation of عِيد الْمِيلَاد‎ (ʕīd al-mīlād).
    • Louisa Alcott, Little Women, Chapter 1, Arabic translation "Dar wa Maktabat al-Hilal, Lebanon":
      ‏الْمِيلَادُ لَنْ يَكُونَ مِيلَادًا مِنْ دُونِ هَدَايَا.‎‎
      al-mīlādu lan yakūna mīlādan min dūni hadāyā.
      Christmas won't be Christmas without presents.

Declension

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

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Maltese: Milied
  • → Azerbaijani: milad
  • → Indonesian: milad
  • → Persian: میلاد‎ (milâd)
  • → Turkish: milat
  • → Turkmen: milad

References
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “ولد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020), “ميلاد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1028

Egyptian Arabic
Root
و ل د‎
1 term

Noun

ميلاد • (transliteration needed) m

  1. birth
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