فتح

From Proto-Semitic *pataḥ-.

• IPA^(key): /fa.ta.ħa/

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فَتَحَ • (fataḥa) I (non-past يَفْتَحُ (yaftaḥu), verbal noun فَتْح (fatḥ))

1. (transitive) to open (“to make something accessible”)

   Antonym: أَغْلَقَ (ʔaḡlaqa)

   • 2003, Alaa Al Aswaany, chapter 2, in The Yacoubian building, Maktaba Madbouly:

     فَتَحَ زَكِي عَيْنَيْهِ

     fataḥa zakī ʕaynayhi

     Zaki opened his eyes.

2. to conquer, occupy, take possession of
3. (construed with عَلَى (ʕalā)) to disclose to
4. to explain, expound
5. to prompt
6. to assist
7. to begin
8. to decide

   فَتَحَ الْفَأْل ― fataḥa l-faʔl ― to take as an omen

9. to mark (a consonant) with a fatha
10. to offer (a price)
11. to broach (a subject)

• اِفْتَحْ يَا سِمْسِم (iftaḥ yā simsim)

• Egyptian Arabic: فتح (fataḥ)
• Maltese: fetaħ
• Moroccan Arabic: فتح (ftaḥ)
• South Levantine Arabic: فتح (fataḥ)

• IPA^(key): /fat.ta.ħa/

فَتَّحَ • (fattaḥa) II (non-past يُفَتِّحُ (yufattiḥu), verbal noun تَفْتِيح (taftīḥ))

1. (transitive) to open in large numbers or thoroughly
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:40:

     إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا عَنْهَا لَا تُفَتَّحُ لَهُمْ أَبْوَابُ ٱلسَّمَاءِ وَلَا يَدْخُلُونَ ٱلْجَنَّةَ حَتَّى يَلِجَ ٱلْجَمَلُ فِي سَمِّ ٱلْخِيَاطِ

     ʔinna llaḏīna kaḏḏabū biʔāyātinā wastakbarū ʕanhā lā tufattaḥu lahum ʔabwābu s-samāʔi walā yadḵulūna l-jannata ḥattā yalija l-jamalu fī sammi l-ḵiyāṭi

     Indeed, those who deny Our signs and disdain them—the gates of the heaven will not be opened for them, nor shall they enter paradise until the camel passes through the needle's eye

Cognate with Akkadian 𒁉𒌈 (pītum) and Biblical Hebrew פֶּתַח (pɛ́ṯaḥ).

• IPA^(key): /fatħ/

فَتْح • (fatḥ) m (plural فُتُوح (futūḥ) or فُتُوحَات (futūḥāt))

1. verbal noun of فَتَحَ (fataḥa) (form I)
2. opening
3. disclosure, overture, beginning
4. conquest, victory, an outcome; occupation of a fortified place, opening of an enemy's defenses
5. help
6. the vowel sign fatha

فَتْح • (fatḥ) f

1. (politics) Fatah (a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO))

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

From Arabic فَتَحَ (fataḥa).

فتح • (fatah) I (non-past يفتح (yaftah))

1. (transitive) to open

From Arabic فَتَّحَ (fattaḥa).

فتح • (fattah) II (non-past يفتح (yifattih))

1. to open up
   • 2019, الكتاب المقدس بالعربي الدارجي هنا تشاد [The Bible in Chadian Arabic]‎^[1], N'Djamena: Alliance biblique du Tchad, يُوحَنَّا [John] 9:14:

     وَ الْيَوْم الْعِيسَى عَجَّنْ فَوْقَهْ الطِّينَةْ وَ فَتَّحْ عُيُونْ الْعَمْيَانْ دَا يَوْم السَّبْت

     wa l-yōm al-ʔisa ʔajjan fōgah al-tīne wa fattah ʔuyūn al-ʔamyān da yōm al-sabt

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2. to regain sight
3. to wake up

   هو فتح من النوم ― hu fattah min an-nōm ― he woke up.

• Heath, Judith, Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021) Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français‎^[2] (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 47
• Pommerol, Patrice Jullien de (1999) Dictionnaire Arabe Tchadien-Français (in French), Éditions Karthala, →ISBN, page 451

From Arabic فَتَحَ (fataḥa).

فتح • (fataḥ) I (non-past يفتح (yiftaḥ))

1. to open (to make something accessible)

Borrowed from Arabic فَتْح (fatḥ).

فتح • (fath)

1. victory

   Synonyms: پیروزی (piruzi), گشایش (gošâyeš)

2. conquest

Borrowed from Classical Persian فتح (fath), from Arabic فَتْح (fatḥ). The modern pronunciation ending in /-eh/ rather than /-ah/ is likely a retention of the Old Punjabi feminine suffix /-i/ (thus, /fat-hi/). Compare Urdu فَتْح (fat-h).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /fə˩˥.teː/

فَتْحِ • (fat-hi) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਫ਼ਤਿਹ)

1. victory
2. conquest

• جت (jitt)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “فتح”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

From Arabic فَتَحَ (fataḥa).

• IPA^(key): /fa.taħ/, [ˈfa.taħ]

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فتح • (fataḥ) I (present بفتح (biftaḥ), passive participle مفتوح (maftūḥ))

1. to open

   Antonym: سكّر (sakkar)

Borrowed from Classical Persian فَتْح (fath), from Arabic فَتْح (fatḥ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fə.t̪əɦ/, [fə.t̪ɛɦ]

فَتَح • (fatah) f (Hindi spelling फ़तह)

1. victory
2. conquest