Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From a Middle Iranian occupation name equivalent to Middle Persian 𐭡𐭲𐭧𐭱𐭩 (btḥšy /⁠badaxš⁠/), being a kind of investigator or monitor.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

فَتَشَ (fataša) I, non-past يَفْتَشُ‎ (yaftašu) (obsolete)

  1. to search, to look for

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

فَتَّشَ (fattaša) II, non-past يُفَتِّشُ‎ (yufattišu)

  1. to inspect, examine, look into, scrutinize, investigate
  2. to search, look for
  3. (dated) to have under surveillance, to exercise supervision, to afford oversight of
    Synonym: رَاقَبَ (rāqaba)
    • a. 1135, Ibn ʿAbdūn, “Un document sur la vie urbaine et les corps de métiers à Séville au début du XIIe siècle: Le traité d’Ibn ʿAbdūn publié avec une introduction et un glossaire”, in Évariste Lévi-Provençal, editor, Journal asiatique[1], number 2, published 1934, page 217 (٢٥) 10:

Conjugation edit

References edit

  • 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 944
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فتش”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “ف ت ش”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Moroccan Arabic edit

Root
ف ت ش
1 term

Etymology edit

From Arabic فَتَّشَ (fattaša).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

فتش (fattaš) II (non-past يفتش (yfattaš))

  1. to search, look for
    Synonyms: قلب (qallab), حوس (ḥawwas)
  2. to investigate

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of فتش
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m فتّشت (fattašt) فتّشتي (fattašti) فتّش (fattaš) فتّشنا (fattašna) فتّشتوا (fattaštu) فتّشوا (fattšu)
f فتّشت (fattšāt)
non-past m نفتّش (nfattaš) تفتّش (tfattaš) يفتّش (yfattaš) نفتّشوا (nfattšu) تفتّشوا (tfattšu) يفتّشوا (yfattšu)
f تفتّشي (tfattši) تفتّش (tfattaš)
imperative m فتّش (fattaš) فتّشوا (fattšu)
f فتّشي (fattši)