Arabic word sheet
مَرَضٌ
Illness, disease
- Type
- noun
- Root
- م ر ض
Meaning and usage
Illness, disease
The state of a body that is no longer in good health; the opposite of health. Said of people and of animals alike.
مَنَعَ الْمَرَضُ سَامِيًا مِنَ السَّفَرِ.
Illness kept Sami from travelling.
Flaw, weakness (figurative)
By image, what a thing or a character lacks to be sound and whole: a weakness, a failing, a nagging doubt.
يَرَى الْمُعَلِّمُ الْكَسَلَ مَرَضًا.
The teacher regards laziness as an illness.
Plural
أَمْرَاضٌ
Word family
What the root means م ر ض
The basic verb means to fall ill: the body leaves its sound state. From it come the illness, the sick person, making someone ill, nursing the sick and feigned illness.
to fall ill
مَرِضَ
sick, a sick person
مَرِيضٌ
to make ill
أَمْرَضَ
to nurse a sick person
مَرَّضَ
nursing
تَمْرِيضٌ
feigning illness
تَمَارُضٌ
Synonyms
sickness, ill health
سُقْمٌ
More literary; it suggests an ailment that lasts and wastes the body.
disease, ailment
دَاءٌ
Names the ailment itself, the one a remedy is meant to cure, rather than the state of the sick person.
Opposites
health
صِحَّةٌ
good health
عَافِيَةٌ