وضع

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وضع¹

  • /wa.dˤa.ʕa/

verb وَضَعَ · waḍaʕa · يَضَعُ · وَضْع · مَوْضَع · مَوْضِع

  1. transitive to put; to lay; to place; to set; to position; to install; to implant وَضَعْتُ يَدَيَّ عَلَى أُذْنَيَّ فَمَا سَمِعْتُ قَوْلَهُ.
  2. transitive to lump, to group; to put together

    Similar: جَمَعَ, رَثَدَ

  3. transitive, of a female to lay and cluster (eggs) in a nest

    Similar: جَمَعَ, رَثَدَ

  4. transitive to store away, to stow away, to deposit; to put down, to lay down وَوَضَعْنَا عَنْكَ وِزْرَكَ.

    Similar: خَزَّنَ

  5. transitive to cancel (a law, a regulation, and so on), to abrogate; to set aside

    Similar: أَلْغَى, أَبْطَلَ, نَسَخَ

  6. transitive to remove (clothes); to put off or down, to lay off or down, to doff; to take off

    Similar: خَلَعَ

  7. transitive, of a female to give birth to (a baby), to deliver, to bear

    Similar: وَلَدَ

  8. transitive to posit (a law, a regulation, and so on); to impose; to set down, to lay down

    Similar: كَتَبَ, شَرَعَ

  9. transitive to posit (an explanation, a theory, and so on); to propose, to set forth; to put down

    Similar: كَتَبَ, شَرَعَ

  10. transitive to add

    Similar: أَضَافَ

  11. transitive to interpose (something, as in a text or a literature, especially falsely), to insert; to interpolate; to put in

    Similar: أَضَافَ, اِخْتَلَقَ, اِفْتَرَى

  12. rare, transitive to demean, to see or treat as lowly

    Similar: أَذَلَّ

وضع²

  • /wadˤʕ/

noun وَضْع · waḍʕ · أَوْضَاع · الْوَضْع

  1. noun from verb verbal noun of وَضَعَ (waḍaʕa) (form I)
  2. putting down, putting, setting وَضْع الْبَقَاء / الْإِبْدَاع / الْمُتَشَدِّد / الْمُغَامَرَة / الْمُشَاهِد
  3. humiliation, deposition
  4. parturition
  5. miscarriage
  6. creating, inventing, composing
  7. position, site
  8. situation
  9. attitude, behavior, manners
  10. proceeding, way of acting
  11. case
  12. plan, intention
  13. external form, figure, shape
  14. institute, establishment
  15. literary composition, work
  16. subtraction, abatement وَضْعًا وَقَوْلًا

In English

  • birth to give birth (to)
  • lay to place something down in a position of rest
  • condition state of an object
  • put to place something somewhere
  • set to put something down
  • state computing: the stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle
  • mode computing: one of various related sets of rules for processing data; more genera
  • fabricate invent and form; forge
  • apply to lay or place; to put (one thing to another)
  • situation combination of circumstances at a given moment; state of affairs
  • place to put in a specific location
  • delivery act of giving birth

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {وضع},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D9%88%D8%B6%D8%B9},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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