Arabic word sheet
حَدِيثٌ
Statement, account, piece of news
- Type
- noun
- Root
- ح د ث
Meaning and usage
Statement, account, piece of news
What someone says or reports: a statement, a piece of information, a story that is told and passed on, short or long.
نَقَلَ الْمُذِيعُ حَدِيثَ الْوَزِيرِ فِي الْأَخْبَارِ.
The newsreader reported the minister’s statement in the news.
Conversation, talk
The exchange of words between people, chatting together; today also the interview given to a journalist.
طَالَ الْحَدِيثُ بَيْنَ سَلْمَى وَجَارَتِهَا.
The conversation between Salma and her neighbour went on for a long time.
New, recent
As a quality: existing only since a short time, just appeared or just made; hence “modern” in today’s usage.
اِشْتَرَى سَامِي هَاتِفًا حَدِيثًا.
Sami bought a recent phone.
Plural
أَحَادِيثُ
Word family
What the root means ح د ث
The basic verb means to be new, to begin to exist, to happen. The headword keeps both sides of the family, what is new and what is told; beside it stand “to happen”, “occurrence”, “newness”, “the event” and “the tale people talk of”.
to happen, to occur
حَدَثَ
occurrence, coming into being
حُدُوثٌ
newness; youth
حَدَاثَةٌ
new, occurring; event
حَادِثٌ
newly made, invented
مُحْدَثٌ
tale that people talk of
أُحْدُوثَةٌ
Synonyms
news, piece of information
خَبَرٌ
It stresses the information conveyed, true or false, rather than the act of speaking or telling.
speech, words
كَلَامٌ
It names speech in general, anything said, whereas the headword is speech addressed to someone to report or tell him something.
new, brand-new
جَدِيدٌ
It matches only the sense “new” and is said above all of what has not yet been used, whereas the headword says the thing is recent in time.
Opposites
old, ancient (opposite of the sense “new”)
قَدِيمٌ