أفاد

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.faː.da/

أَفَادَ • (ʔafāda) IV (non-past يُفِيدُ (yufīdu), verbal noun إِفَادَة (ʔifāda))

1. (transitive) to benefit, be helpful, useful, beneficial, profitable, advantageous for (someone)
2. (intransitive) to profit, to benefit [with مِن (min) ‘from something’]

   Synonym: اِسْتَفَاد (istafād)

3. (ditransitive) to teach [with accusative ‘something’ and accusative ‘to someone’]
4. (ditransitive) to notify, to inform, to advise [with بِ (bi) or accusative ‘about something’, along with accusative ‘to someone’; or with accusative ‘someone’, along with بِأَنَّ (biʔanna, + clause) or أَنَّ (ʔanna, + clause) ‘that ...’] (idiomatically translated by English inform someone about something)
5. (ditransitive) to report, to inform the police [with بِ (bi) or accusative ‘something’; or with بِأَنَّ (biʔanna, + clause) or أَنَّ (ʔanna, + clause) ‘that ...’]
6. (transitive) to get, to acquire, to win

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

Learned borrowing from Arabic أَفَادَ (ʔafāda).

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.faːd/, [ʔaˈfæːd]

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أفاد • (ʔafād) IV (present بفيد (bifīd))

1. to be useful or beneficial