وجود

Arabic

Root
و ج د (w-j-d)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wu.d͡ʒuːd/

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Noun

وُجُود • (wujūd) m

1. verbal noun of وُجِدَ (wujida) (form I)
2. verbal noun of وَجَدَ (wajada) (form I)
3. existence

Declension

Declension of noun وُجُود (wujūd)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	وُجُود wujūd	الْوُجُود al-wujūd	وُجُود wujūd
Nominative	وُجُودٌ wujūdun	الْوُجُودُ al-wujūdu	وُجُودُ wujūdu
Accusative	وُجُودًا wujūdan	الْوُجُودَ al-wujūda	وُجُودَ wujūda
Genitive	وُجُودٍ wujūdin	الْوُجُودِ al-wujūdi	وُجُودِ wujūdi

Descendants

• → Bengali: ওজুদ (ojud)
• → Japanese: ウジュード (ujūdo)
• → Malay: wujud
  • → Indonesian: wujud
• → Ottoman Turkish: وجود (vücud)
  • Turkish: vücut
  • → Azerbaijani: vücud
• → Persian: وجود (vojud)
  • → Hindi: वजूद (vajūd)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਵਜੂਦ (vajūd)

    Shahmukhi script: وجود (vajūd)

• → Uyghur: ۋۇجۇت (wujut)
• → Uzbek: vujud

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic وُجُود (wujūd).

Noun

وجود • (vücud)

1. existence; being; substance

   وجوده كتیرمك ― vücuda getirmek ― to create

   • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎^[1], page 8:

     بو جمعیتك مقصدی ، اجنبی تحت حمایه‌سنده ، بر كورد حكومتی وجوده كتیرمكدی.

     Bir cemiyetin maksadı, ecnebi tahte himayesinde, bir Kurd hükümeti vucuda getirmekti.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. human body

Descendants

• Turkish: vücut
• → Azerbaijani: vücud

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وجود”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1304
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vücut”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وجود”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2129
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic وُجُود (wujūd).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [wu.ˈd͡ʒuːð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wʊ.d͡ʒúːd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wʊ.d͡ʒúːd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [wʊ.d͡ʒúːd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [wu.d͡ʒúd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [vo.d͡ʒúːd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [vu.d͡ʒúd̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	wujūḏ
Dari reading?	wujūd
Iranian reading?	vojud
Tajik reading?	vujud

Noun

Dari	وجود
Iranian Persian
Tajik	вуҷуд

وجود • (vojud)

1. existence

   Synonym: هستی (hasti)

2. presence

Inflection

Possessive forms of وجود (vojud)
	singular	plural
1st person (“my, our”)	وجودم (vojudam)	وجودمان (vojudemân) [Term?]△ (vojudemun)
2nd person (“your”)	وجودت (vojudat) [Term?]△ (vojudet)	وجودتان (vojudetân) [Term?]△ (vojudetun)
3rd person (“his, her, its, their”)	وجودش (vojudaš) [Term?]△ (vojudeš)	وجودشان (vojudešân) [Term?]△ (vojudešun)
△ Colloquial.

Derived terms

• به وجود آمدن (be vojud âmadan), به وجود اومدن (be vojud umadan)
• به وجود آوردن (be vojud âvardan, be vojud âvordan)
• پا به عرصه وجود گذاشتن (pâ be 'arse-ye vojud gozâštan)
• وجود داشتن (vojud dâštan)
• وجودی (vojudi)

Descendants

• → Hindi: वजूद (vajūd)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਵਜੂਦ (vajūd)

  Shahmukhi script: وجود (vajūd)