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وَ

Root: و

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وَ : you say, سَارَ زَيْدٌ وَعْمْرٌو, using و as a conjunction; rather than وَعَمْرًا: and سِرْتُ وَزَيْدًا, using و as [a prep.] denoting concomitance; rather than وَزَيْدٌ.
2 مَا أُمِّى وَأُمُّهُ; and مَا أَنَا وَطَلَبُ الوَحْشِ: see أُمٌّ: and see another ex. in a verse cited voce حَلِمَ. In the Kur, ii. 121 some read وَإِسْمٰعِيلُ; and others وإِسْمٰعِيلَ. In مَا لَكَ وَزَيْدًا, the و denotes concomitance; What hast thou in common, or to do, with Zeyd? or it is for مَا لَكَ وَِلزَيٍْد.
3 وَ in وهُوَ لَكَ: see حَمْدٌ.
4 الوَاوُ لِمُطْلَقِ الجَمْعِ [The و denoting unrestricted conjunction, not necessarily implying simultaneousness nor relative order].
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