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وضع

Pronunciation: /wa.dˤa.ʕa/

“وضع” is an Arabic word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to put; to lay; to place; to set; to position; to install; to implant
  2. to lump, to group; to put together
  3. to lay and cluster (eggs) in a nest
  4. to store away, to stow away, to deposit; to put down, to lay down
  5. to cancel (a law, a regulation, and so on), to abrogate; to set aside
  6. to remove (clothes); to put off or down, to lay off or down, to doff; to take off
  7. to give birth to (a baby), to deliver, to bear
  8. to posit (a law, a regulation, and so on); to impose; to set down, to lay down
  9. to posit (an explanation, a theory, and so on); to propose, to set forth; to put down
  10. to add
  11. to interpose (something, as in a text or a literature, especially falsely), to insert; to interpolate; to put in
  12. to see or treat as lowly, to demean

noun

  1. putting down, putting, setting
  2. humiliation, deposition
  3. parturition
  4. miscarriage
  5. creating, inventing, composing
  6. position, site
  7. situation
  8. attitude, behavior, manners
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