Arabic

Root

ح د ث ‎(ḥ-d-ṯ)

1. related to happening, newness, and talking

Derived terms

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: حَدَثَ ‎(ḥadaṯa, “to happen, occur, take place, come to pass”)
  • Verbal noun: حُدُوث ‎(ḥudūṯ, “occurrence, incidence, incident, happening”)
  • Active participle: حَادِث ‎(ḥādiṯ, “occurring, happening, taking place, occurrence, incident, event, episode, case (law), accident”)
• Form I: حَدُثَ ‎(ḥaduṯa, “to be new, recent, young”)
  • Active participle: حَادِث ‎(ḥādiṯ, “new, recent, fresh”)
• Form II: حَدَّثَ ‎(ḥaddaṯa, “to tell, relate, report, speak or talk to”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحْدِيث ‎(taḥdīṯ)
  • Active participle: مُحَدِّث ‎(muḥaddiṯ, “speaker, talker, spokesman, conversation partner, narrator, phonograph”)
  • Passive participle: مُحَدَّث ‎(muḥaddaṯ)
• Form III: حَادَثَ ‎(ḥādaṯa, “to speak, talk, discuss, converse, negotiate, address, call up”)
  • Verbal noun: مُحَادَثَة ‎(muḥādaṯa, “discourse, conversation, discussion, talk”), حِدَاث ‎(ḥidāṯ, “discourse, conversation, discussion, talk”)
  • Active participle: مُحَادِث ‎(muḥādiṯ)
  • Passive participle: مُحَادَث ‎(muḥādaṯ)
• Form IV: أَحْدَثَ ‎(ʾaḥdaṯa, “to bring forth, produce, create, originate, establish, bring about, cause, provoke”)
  • Verbal noun: إِحْدَاث ‎(ʾiḥdāṯ, “production, creation, invention, origination, causation”)
  • Active participle: مُحْدِث ‎(muḥdiṯ)
  • Passive participle: مُحْدَث ‎(muḥdaṯ, “new, novel, recent, late, modern, upstart”)
• Form V: تَحَدَّثَ ‎(taḥaddaṯa, “to speak, talk, converse, chat”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحَدُّث ‎(taḥadduṯ)
  • Active participle: مُتَحَدِّث ‎(mutaḥaddiṯ, “spokesman, speaker”)
  • Passive participle: مُتَحَدَّث ‎(mutaḥaddaṯ)
• Form VI: تَحَادَثَ ‎(taḥādaṯa, “to talk with one another, have a conversation, chat”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحَادُث ‎(taḥāduṯ)
  • Active participle: مُتَحَادِث ‎(mutaḥādiṯ)
  • Passive participle: مُتَحَادَث ‎(mutaḥādaṯ)
• Form X: اِسْتَحْدَثَ ‎(istaḥdaṯa, “to renew, buy new, introduce, start, invent, originate, create”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِحْدَاث ‎(istiḥdāṯ, “invention, creation, production, origination”)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَحْدِث ‎(mustaḥdiṯ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَحْدَث ‎(mustaḥdaṯ, “newly made, newfangled, novelty, innovation, neologism”)

Nouns and other parts of speech

• حَدَث ‎(ḥadaṯ, “new thing, novelty, innovation, event, phenomenon, misfortune, excrement, young man”), أَحْدَاث ‎(ʾaḥdāṯ)
• حَدِيث ‎(ḥadīṯ, “new, novel, recent, late, modern”); plurals حِدَاث ‎(ḥidāṯ), حُدَثَاء ‎(ḥudaṯāʾ)
  • أَحْدَث ‎(ʾaḥdaṯ, “newer, more recent”)
  • حَدِيثًا ‎(ḥadīṯan, “recently, lately”)
• حَدِيث ‎(ḥadīṯ, “speech, chat, conversation, talk, discussion, interview, gossip, report, account, tale, narrative, Hadith”); plurals أَحَادِيث ‎(ʾaḥādīṯ), حِدْثَان ‎(ḥidṯān)
• حَدَاثَة ‎(ḥadāṯa, “newness, recency, novelty, youthfulness”)
• حَوَادِث ‎(ḥawādiṯ, “folk tales”)
• حِدْثَان الدَّهْر ‎(ḥidṯān ad-dahr, “misfortune”)
• أُحْدُوثَة ‎(ʾuḥdūṯa, “speech, discussion, talk, conversation, chatter, fibbing, topic, gossip, rumor”); plural أَحَادِيث ‎(ʾaḥādīṯ)
• اِحدَاثِيَّات ‎(“coordinates”)
• حَادِثَة ‎(ḥādiṯa, “occurrence, event, happening, plot, incident, episode, accident, mishap”); plural حَوَادِث ‎(ḥawādiṯ)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “حدث”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4