Arabic

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Etymology

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

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فَتَشَ (fataša) I (non-past يَفْتَشُ (yaftašu), verbal noun فَتْش (fatš)) (obsolete)

  1. to search, to look for

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فَتَّشَ (fattaša) II (non-past يُفَتِّشُ (yufattišu), verbal noun تَفْتِيش (taftīš))

  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:

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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 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

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Root
ف ت ش
1 term

Etymology

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From Arabic فَتَّشَ (fattaša).

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Verb

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

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

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    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)