A new word or phrase from the Hans Wehr dictionary, every Wednesday.
استنفد كل وسع (kulla wus’in) to exhaust, or avail o.s. of, every possibility
Root: ن-ف-د
Page: 1153*
Example: “ماذا سَنَفعَلُ الآنَ؟ قَد اِستَنفَدنا كُلَّ وُسع”
Translation: “what are we going to do now? We’ve exhausted every possibility”
Notes:
- This reminds me of the post Six Ways to Say “Can” or “to be Able to” in Arabic—because one of the ways we looked at was بوسع!
You can now revise all of the Wehr Wednesday vocab so far on Quizlet here to stay on top of things!
* The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th Edition
The Arabic Pages 