وَضَعَ

وَضَعَ in English

Verb · Form I

1. to put; to lay; to place; to set; to position; to install; to implant transitive
   وَضَعْتُ يَدَيَّ عَلَى أُذْنَيَّ فَمَا سَمِعْتُ قَوْلَهُ.I put my hands over my ears and did not hear what he said.
2. to lump, to group; to put together transitive
   1. to lay and cluster (eggs) in a nest transitive
3. to store away, to stow away, to deposit; to put down, to lay down transitive
   وَوَضَعْنَا عَنْكَ وِزْرَكَ.And We put down from you your burden.609–632 CE, Qur'an, 94:2
4. to stop holding or using (a tool or an instrument, such as a weapon), to put away or down, to lay down; to put aside
   1. to cancel (a law, a regulation, and so on), to abrogate; to set aside transitive
   2. to remove (clothes); to put off or down, to lay off or down, to doff; to take off transitive
   3. to give birth to (a baby), to deliver, to bear transitive
5. to posit (a law, a regulation, and so on); to impose; to set down, to lay down transitive
   1. to posit (an explanation, a theory, and so on); to propose, to set forth; to put down transitive
6. to add transitive
   1. to interpose (something, as in a text or a literature, especially falsely), to insert; to interpolate; to put in transitive
7. to demean, to see or treat as lowly rare, transitive

Words from the root و-ض-ع

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وَضَعَ conjugation

Active voice. Present, subjunctive and jussive are the three moods of the non-past.

وَضَعَ in a sentence

Dictionary examples

to put

to store away

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