إذ

إذ

See also: أد‎, آد‎, and اد‎

Arabic

Etymology

Clipping of إِذَا‎ (ʾiḏā) used to underscore a particular point in time, perhaps analogical to the relations of other conjunctions like إِمَّا‎ (ʾimmā) and إِن‎ (ʾin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔið/

Conjunction

إِذْ • (ʾiḏ)

1. and then
2. as, when
3. since, because
   • 13th century, Ibn Malik, Alfiyyah:

     ‏وَعَوْدُ خَافِضٍ لَدَى عَطْفٍ عَلَى / ضَمِيرِ خَفْضٍ لَازِمًا قَدْ جُعِلَا / وَلَيْسَ عِنْدِي لَازِمًا إِذْ قَدْ أَتَى / فِي ٱلنَّظْمِ وَٱلنَّثْرِ الصَّحِيحِ مُثْبَتَا‎

     waʿawdu ḵāfiḍin ladā ʿaṭfin ʿalā / ḍamīri ḵafḍin lāziman qad juʿilā / walaysa ʿindī lāziman ʾiḏ qad ʾatā / fī n-naẓmi wan-naṯri ṣ-ṣaḥīḥi muṯbatā

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References

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “إذ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Further reading

• إذ on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar