# وعد
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wa.ʕa.da/

#### Verb

وَعَدَ • (waʕada) I (non-past يَعِدُ (yaʕidu), verbal noun وَعْد (waʕd) or عِدَة (ʕida) or مَوْعِد (mawʕid) or مَوْعِدَة (mawʕida))
* (ditransitive) to promise (construed doubly transitive or someone بِ (bi) something)
    هَلْ تَعِدُنِي بِذٰلِكَ؟ (talking to a male)hal taʕidunī biḏālika?Will you promise me (are you promising me) this?

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

وَعَدَ • (waʕada) I (non-past يَعِدُ (yaʕidu), verbal noun وَعِيد (waʕīd))
* (ditransitive) to threaten with
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 36:63:هٰذِهِ جَهَنَّمُ ٱلَّتِي كُنْتُمْ تُوعَدُونَhāḏihi jahannamu llatī kuntum tūʕadūnaThis is the Hell with which you were threatened

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 1.2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /waʕd/

#### Noun

وَعْد • (waʕd) m (plural وُعُود (wuʕūd))
* verbal noun of وَعَدَ (waʕada) (form I)
* promise
* threat, menace
* anything promised or threatened

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: vəd
* → Ottoman Turkish: وعد (vaad)
** Turkish: vaat

### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “وعد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “وعد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “وعد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic وَعَدَ (waʕada).

### Pronunciation

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### Verb

وعد • (waʕad) I (non-past يوعد (yiwʕid))
* to promise

#### Conjugation

$^1$ The future tense can be prefixed with either هـ (ha-) or حـ (ḥa-) depending on the speaker.

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَعْد (waʕd, “promise”).

### Noun

وعد • (vaʾad)
* promise, a commitment to do or not to do something
    Synonym: سوز (söz)

#### Derived terms

* وعد اتمك (vaʾad etmek, “to promise”)
* وعدلاشمق (vaʾadlaşmak, “to make mutual promises”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: vaat

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vaat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5077
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “va'd”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1360
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وعد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1312
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Promissio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1378
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وعد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5389
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vaat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وعد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2142

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic وَعَدَ (waʕada).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wa.ʕad/, [ˈwa.ʕad]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Verb

وعد • (waʕad) I (present بوعد (būʕed))
* to promise