Wafd

American

[wahft] / wɑft /

noun

a nationalist party in Egypt.

Wafd British

/ wɒft /

noun

a nationalist Egyptian political party: founded in 1924 and dissolved in 1952

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Other Word Forms

Wafdist noun

Etymology

Origin of Wafd

< Arabic: literally, deputation

Example Sentences

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Abdel-Sanad Yamama, chairman of the Wafd Party, received less than 2% of the vote.

From Washington Times • Dec. 18, 2023

In general, I have good relations with the Brotherhood and with the Wafd Party, which is a right-wing party.

From Slate • May 31, 2013

As voting resumed in the chilly, rain-swept coastal town of Damietta, Sayed Ibrahim, 30, said he backed the liberal Wafd Party over its main local rival, the Islamist Salafi Nour Party.

From Reuters • Nov. 29, 2011

“I was expecting to find the Wafd were the leaders, or the Brotherhood were the leaders,” he said, speaking of two of Egypt’s best-known opposition movements.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2011

Egypt’s second-largest party, the secular Wafd, stated that it also is withdrawing.

From Newsweek • Dec. 1, 2010

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