لذيذ

See also: لذیذ

Arabic

Root
ل ذ ذ (l-ḏ-ḏ)

Etymology

فَعِيل (faʕīl)-type stative-verb derived from the active participle from the verb لَذَّ (laḏḏa, to be tasty).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /la.ðiːð/
  • (file)

Adjective

لَذِيذ • (laḏīḏ) (feminine لَذِيذَة (laḏīḏa), common plural لُذّ (luḏḏ) or لِذَاذ (liḏāḏ), masculine plural لَذِيذُونَ (laḏīḏūna), feminine plural لَذِيذَاتٌ (laḏīḏātun) or لَذَائِذ (laḏāʔiḏ), elative أَلَذّ (ʔalaḏḏ))

  1. tasty, delicious
  2. pleasant
  3. beautiful

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: ləziz
  • Bengali: লজিজ (lôziz)
  • Persian: لذیذ (laziz)
  • Northern Kurdish: lezîz
  • Ottoman Turkish: لذیذ (leziz)

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “لذيذ”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “لذ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ل ذ ذ
1 term

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic لَذِيذ (laḏīḏ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laˈziːz/
    • IPA(key): /laˈðiːð/ (spelling pronunciation)

Adjective

لذيذ • (lazīz) (feminine لذيذة (lazīza), common plural لذيذين (lazīzīn) or لُذاذ (luzāz), feminine plural لذيذات (lazīzāt))

  1. delicious
    Synonym: طِعِم (ṭiʕim)

Usage notes

The common plural adjective is used with both feminine and masculine plural nouns, while the feminine plural adjective is rarely used and only used with feminine nouns.

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ل ذ ذ
2 terms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic لَذِيذ (laḏīḏ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /la.ziːz/, [laˈziːz]
  • (file)

Adjective

لذيذ • (lazīz) (feminine لذيذة (lazīze), common plural لذيذين (lazīzīn), elative ألذّ (ʔalazz))

  1. nice, pleasant, enjoyable
  2. (food) delicious
    Synonyms: زاكي (zāki), طيب (ṭayyeb)
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