Arabic

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Etymology

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Presumed from an imperative form of وَدَعَ (wadaʕa) used as a defective verb and reinterpreted into دَعَا (daʕā).

Root

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د ع و (d-ʕ-w)

  1. related to calling, summoning, inviting, praying

Derived terms

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References

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  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 467