ح د ث

From Proto-Semitic *ḥdṯ-. Cognate with Biblical Hebrew ח־ד־ש (ḥ-d-š) and Akkadian '-d-š.

ح د ث • (ḥ-d-ṯ)

1. related to happening, newness.
2. derivatively related to talking or informing (about news).

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 (ʔaḥdaṯa, “to bring forth, produce, create, originate, establish, bring about, cause, provoke”)
  • Verbal noun: إِحْدَاث (ʔiḥdāṯ, “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 (ʔaḥdāṯ)
• حَدِيث (ḥadīṯ, “new, novel, recent, late, modern”); plurals حِدَاث (ḥidāṯ), حُدَثَاء (ḥudaṯāʔ)
  • أَحْدَث (ʔaḥdaṯ, “newer, more recent”)
  • حَدِيثًا (ḥadīṯan, “recently, lately”)
• حَدِيث (ḥadīṯ, “speech, chat, conversation, talk, discussion, interview, gossip, report, account, tale, narrative, Hadith”); plurals أَحَادِيث (ʔaḥādīṯ), حِدْثَان (ḥidṯān)
• حَدَاثَة (ḥadāṯa, “newness, recency, novelty, youthfulness”)
• حَوَادِث (ḥawādiṯ, “folk tales”)
• حِدْثَان الدَّهْر (ḥidṯān ad-dahr, “misfortune”)
• أُحْدُوثَة (ʔuḥdūṯa, “speech, discussion, talk, conversation, chatter, fibbing, topic, gossip, rumor”); plural أَحَادِيث (ʔaḥādīṯ)
• إِحدَاثِيَّات (“coordinates”)
• حَادِثَة (ḥādiṯa, “occurrence, event, happening, plot, incident, episode, accident, mishap”); plural حَوَادِث (ḥawādiṯ)

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