Arabic word sheet
وَجَدَ
To find
- Type
- verb
- Root
- و ج د
Meaning and usage
To find
To come upon a thing or a person, whether sought or not; to recover what was lost.
وَجَدَ سَامِي مِفْتَاحَهُ تَحْتَ الطَّاوِلَةِ.
Sami found his key under the table.
To find that, to find to be
To know from experience that a person or a thing is such and such.
وَجَدَتْ لَيْلَى الدَّرْسَ سَهْلًا.
Layla found the lesson easy.
To feel, to experience
To perceive a sensation in oneself: a pain, hunger, a taste, a smell.
وَجَدَ الْمَرِيضُ أَلَمًا فِي ظَهْرِهِ.
The patient felt a pain in his back.
To be angry with
In literary usage, followed by the word for "on": to be cross with someone, especially someone close.
وَجَدَ الْأَبُ عَلَى ابْنِهِ.
The father was angry with his son.
Word family
What the root means و ج د
The root is about finding, coming upon what one was looking for, through the senses or the mind. From it come existence, since what exists can be found, the ease of one who has found enough to live on, and the strong feeling one finds within oneself.
existence; finding
وُجُودٌ
finding again; inner feeling
وِجْدَانٌ
existing, present
مَوْجُودٌ
to make find; to bring into being
أَوْجَدَ
finder; well-off
وَاجِدٌ
ardent love, strong emotion
وَجْدٌ
Synonyms
to come across, to stumble on
عَثَرَ
Narrower: to find by chance, without having looked.
Opposites
to lose
فَقَدَ
to mislay
أَضَاعَ