fitna
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic فِتْنَة (fitna, “sedition, strife”).
Noun
[edit]fitna (countable and uncountable, plural fitnas)
- (Islam, uncountable) Temptation.
- Strife; social unrest or civil war among Muslims, especially from the 7th to the 9th century.
References
[edit]- OED 2006
Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- See fixing to.
Contraction
[edit]fitna
- (rare) African-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
- I'm fitna go to the store.
Anagrams
[edit]Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse fitna, from Proto-Germanic *fitnaną.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]fitna (third person singular past indicative fitnaði, third person plural past indicative fitnaðu, supine fitnað)
- (intransitive) to become fat, to get fat
- Tú ert fitnaður.
- You've gotten fatter.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of fitna (group v-30) | ||
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infinitive | fitna | |
supine | fitnað | |
participle (a6)1 | fitnandi | fitnaður |
present | past | |
first singular | fitni | fitnaði |
second singular | fitnar | fitnaði |
third singular | fitnar | fitnaði |
plural | fitna | fitnaðu |
imperative | ||
singular | fitna! | |
plural | fitnið! | |
1Only the past participle being declined. |
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[edit]Icelandic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]fitna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fitnaði, supine fitnað)
- (intransitive) to become fat, to get fat
- Þú hefur fitnað yfir jólin.
- You've gotten fatter over Christmas.
Conjugation
[edit]fitna — active voice (germynd)
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að fitna | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
fitnað | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
fitnandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég fitna | við fitnum | present (nútíð) |
ég fitni | við fitnum |
þú fitnar | þið fitnið | þú fitnir | þið fitnið | ||
hann, hún, það fitnar | þeir, þær, þau fitna | hann, hún, það fitni | þeir, þær, þau fitni | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég fitnaði | við fitnuðum | past (þátíð) |
ég fitnaði | við fitnuðum |
þú fitnaðir | þið fitnuðuð | þú fitnaðir | þið fitnuðuð | ||
hann, hún, það fitnaði | þeir, þær, þau fitnuðu | hann, hún, það fitnaði | þeir, þær, þau fitnuðu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
fitna (þú) | fitnið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
fitnaðu | fitniði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
Related terms
[edit]Uzbek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic فِتْنَة (fitna, “sedition, strife”).
Noun
[edit]fitna (plural fitnalar)
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