فائض

Arabic

Etymology

Root
ف ي ض (f-y-ḍ)

Derived from the active participle of فَاضَ (fāḍa, “to overflow”).

Noun

فَائِض • (fāʔiḍ) m (plural فَوَائِض (fawāʔiḍ))

1. excess, surplus

   فَائِض الْمِيزَانِيَّة ― fāʔiḍ al-mīzāniyya ― the budget surplus

Declension

Declension of noun فَائِض (fāʔiḍ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَائِض fāʔiḍ	الْفَائِض al-fāʔiḍ	فَائِض fāʔiḍ
Nominative	فَائِضٌ fāʔiḍun	الْفَائِضُ al-fāʔiḍu	فَائِضُ fāʔiḍu
Accusative	فَائِضًا fāʔiḍan	الْفَائِضَ al-fāʔiḍa	فَائِضَ fāʔiḍa
Genitive	فَائِضٍ fāʔiḍin	الْفَائِضِ al-fāʔiḍi	فَائِضِ fāʔiḍi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَائِضَيْن fāʔiḍayn	الْفَائِضَيْن al-fāʔiḍayn	فَائِضَيْ fāʔiḍay
Nominative	فَائِضَانِ fāʔiḍāni	الْفَائِضَانِ al-fāʔiḍāni	فَائِضَا fāʔiḍā
Accusative	فَائِضَيْنِ fāʔiḍayni	الْفَائِضَيْنِ al-fāʔiḍayni	فَائِضَيْ fāʔiḍay
Genitive	فَائِضَيْنِ fāʔiḍayni	الْفَائِضَيْنِ al-fāʔiḍayni	فَائِضَيْ fāʔiḍay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَوَائِض fawāʔiḍ	الْفَوَائِض al-fawāʔiḍ	فَوَائِض fawāʔiḍ
Nominative	فَوَائِضُ fawāʔiḍu	الْفَوَائِضُ al-fawāʔiḍu	فَوَائِضُ fawāʔiḍu
Accusative	فَوَائِضَ fawāʔiḍa	الْفَوَائِضَ al-fawāʔiḍa	فَوَائِضَ fawāʔiḍa
Genitive	فَوَائِضَ fawāʔiḍa	الْفَوَائِضِ al-fawāʔiḍi	فَوَائِضِ fawāʔiḍi

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: فائض (faʼiz), فایض (faiz)
  • Turkish: faiz
  • → Armenian: ֆայիզ (fayiz)
• → Uzbek: foiz

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• فایض (faiz)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَائِض (fāʔiḍ, “excess, surplus”), from the active participle of the verb فَاضَ (fāḍa, “to overflow”).

Noun

فائض • (faʼiz) (plural فوائض (fevaʼiz))

1. (finance) interest, the price paid for obtaining money or goods in a transaction

Derived terms

• فائض آلمق (faʼiz almak, “to charge interest”)
• فائض مركب (faʼiz-i mürekkeb, “compound interest”)
• فائض مفرد (faʼiz-i müfred, “simple interest”)
• فائضجی (faʼizci, “usurer, loan shark”)
• فائضسز (faʼizsiz, “free of interest”)
• فائضلو (faʼizli, “which yields interest”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: faiz
• → Armenian: ֆայիզ (fayiz)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “faiz1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1540
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “fâiz”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 298
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فائض”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 884
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Abundans”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 8
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فایض”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3461
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “faiz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فائض”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1363