# وضع
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wa.dˤa.ʕa/
* Audio:(file)

#### Verb

وَضَعَ • (waḍaʕa) I (non-past يَضَعُ (yaḍaʕu), verbal noun وَضْع (waḍʕ) or مَوْضَع (mawḍaʕ) or مَوْضِع (mawḍiʕ))
* (transitive) to put; to lay; to place; to set; to position; to install; to implant
    وَضَعْتُ يَدَيَّ عَلَى أُذْنَيَّ فَمَا سَمِعْتُ قَوْلَهُ.waḍaʕtu yadayya ʕalā ʔuḏnayya fa-mā samiʕtu qawlahu.I put my hands over my ears and did not hear what he said.
* (transitive) to lump, to group; to put together
    Synonyms: جَمَعَ (jamaʕa), رَثَدَ (raṯada)
** (transitive, of a female) to lay and cluster (eggs) in a nest
* (transitive) to store away, to stow away, to deposit; to put down, to lay down
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 94:2:وَوَضَعْنَا عَنْكَ وِزْرَكَ.wa-waḍaʕnā ʕanka wizraka.And We put down from you your burden.
    Synonym: خَزَّنَ (ḵazzana, “to store”)
* (transitive) to stop holding or using (a tool or an instrument, such as a weapon), to put away or down, to lay down; to put aside
** (transitive) to cancel (a law, a regulation, and so on), to abrogate; to set aside
    Synonyms: أَلْغَى (ʔalḡā, “to cancel”), أَبْطَلَ (ʔabṭala, “to nullify; to invalidate”), نَسَخَ (nasaḵa, “to abrogate; to supersede”)
** (transitive) to remove (clothes); to put off or down, to lay off or down, to doff; to take off
    Synonym: خَلَعَ (ḵalaʕa, “to take off (clothes or accessories)”)
** (transitive, of a female) to give birth to (a baby), to deliver, to bear
    Synonym: وَلَدَ (walada, “to give birth to, to mother”)
* (transitive) to posit (a law, a regulation, and so on); to impose; to set down, to lay down
    Synonyms: كَتَبَ (kataba, “to prescribe”), شَرَعَ (šaraʕa, “to command”)
** (transitive) to posit (an explanation, a theory, and so on); to propose, to set forth; to put down
* (transitive) to add
    Synonym: أَضَافَ (ʔaḍāfa)
** (transitive) to interpose (something, as in a text or a literature, especially falsely), to insert; to interpolate; to put in
    Synonyms: اِخْتَلَقَ (iḵtalaqa, “to make up, to invent”), اِفْتَرَى (iftarā, “to forge”)
* (transitive, rare) to see or treat as lowly, to demean
    Synonym: أَذَلَّ (ʔaḏalla)

##### References

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

### Etymology 1.2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wadˤʕ/

#### Noun

وَضْع • (waḍʕ) m (plural أَوْضَاع (ʔawḍāʕ))
* verbal noun of وَضَعَ (waḍaʕa) (form I)
* putting down, putting, setting
* humiliation, deposition
* parturition
* miscarriage
* creating, inventing, composing
* position, site
* situation
* attitude, behavior, manners
* proceeding, way of acting
* case
* plan, intention
* external form, figure, shape
* institute, establishment
* literary composition, work
* subtraction, abatement
    وَضْعًا وَقَوْلًا ― waḍʕan wa-qawlan ― in deeds and words

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: vəz
* → Ottoman Turkish: وضع (vaz)
* → Persian: وضع (vaz')

##### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “وضع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic وَضْع (waḍʕ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wadˤʕ/

### Noun

وضع • (waḍʕ) m (plural أوضاع (ʔawḍāʕ))
* situation

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَضْع (waḍʕ).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [wazʔ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [wäzʔ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [wäzʔ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [wäz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [wäz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [væzʔ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [väzʔ]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

وَضع • (vaz') (plural اُوضاع (owzâ') or وَضع‌ها (vaz'-hâ))
* condition, situation, state
    Synonyms: وضعیت (vaz'iyat), حال (hâl)
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 3608:ز انکه مریم وقت وضع حمل خویش / بود از بیگانه دور و هم ز خویشz-ân-ke maryam vaqt-e vaz'-e haml-e xiš / bud az bigâne dur o ham ze xišMary in [her] pregnant state was not joined by any one: she did not return from without the town.
* manner, way of acting
** c. 1760, محمد یوسف خان [Muḥammad Yūsuf Khān], translated by Hannah Lord Archambault, in "Geographies of Influence: Two Afghan Military Households in 17th and 18th Century South India" (2018, PhD), تاریخ فتحیه [Tārikh-i Fatḥiya]‎:وَ این تُرکتاز خان دَر دَکَّن مُتَوَلِّد شُده، خود را با وَضعِ مَرَتهه‌ها ساخته، دَر لِباس و خَوراک و مُخالِطَت با مَرَتهه‌ها قِسمی مُواقَفَت داشت که سَرِ مو اَز وَضعِ آنها با این تَفاوَت مَحسوس نِمی‌کَردَند. وَ دَر رَویه جَنگ نیز مِثلِ مَرَتهه‌ها بود.va in torktâz xân dar dakkan motavalled šode, xod-râ bâ vaz'-e marathe-hâ sâxte, dar lebâs o xorâk o moxâletat bâ marathe-hâ qesm-i movâqafat dâšt ke sar-e mu az vaz'-e ânhâ bâ in tafâvat mahsus ne-mi-kardand. va dar raviye-ye jang niz mesl-e marathe-hâ bud.And this Turktāz Khān [was] born in the Deccan and presented himself in the manner of the Marathas. In [his] clothing and food and conversation their they had such a degree of similarity that not a hair from their heads could be distinguished. In style of warfare also he was like the Marathas.
* enactment
    Synonym: تصویب (tasvib)
* subtraction, deduction

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic وَضْع (waḍʕ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wadˤʕ/, [wɑdˤʕ]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Noun

وضع • (waḍʕ) m (plural أوضاع (ʔawḍāʕ))
* situation, position

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian وَضْع (waz'), from Arabic وَضْع (waḍʕ). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi وضع (vẓ').

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ʋəz(ʔ)/
* (common) IPA: /ʋə.zɑː/
* Rhymes: -ɑː

### Noun

وَضْع • (vaz') f (Hindi spelling वज़ा)
* making; devising; forming; invention
* shape; appearance
* manner; mode
* style; order; manner
* type; kind; form
* delivery; produce (ie. a child)
* custom (ie. a tradition)

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ “وضع”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

### Further reading

* “وضع”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “وضع”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “وضع”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* S. W. Fallon (1879) “وضع”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
* John Shakespear (1834) “وضع”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC