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أَثاث
furniture /ʔaˈθaːθ/
nounB2#3654 most common
Also: household furnishings, household goods
Example sentences
هذا أثاث جميل.
This furniture is beautiful.
اشترينا أثاثاً جديداً للبيت.
We bought new furniture for the house.
يحتاج المنزل إلى أثاث مريح.
The house needs comfortable furniture.
نقلنا الأثاث القديم إلى المخزن قبل تجديد الشقة.
We moved the old furniture to storage before renovating the apartment.
تتميز هذه الشركة بتصميم أثاث مستدام مصنوع من مواد معاد تدويرها.
This company specializes in designing sustainable furniture made from recycled materials.
على الرغم من ضيق الميزانية، أصرت الأسرة على اقتناء أثاث يعكس ذوقها الرفيع ويجمع بين الأصالة والحداثة.
Despite the tight budget, the family insisted on acquiring furniture that reflects its refined taste and combines tradition and modernity.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أَثَاثٌ | أَثَاثَاتٌ |
| Genitive | أَثَاثٍ | أَثَاثَاتٍ |
| Accusative | أَثَاثاً | أَثَاثَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يَا أَثَاثُ | يَا أَثَاثَاتُ |
Word family
أَثَّثto furnish (a house)
تَأْثيثfurnishing (the act of)
مُؤَثَّثfurnished
أَثيثthick, lush (of hair)
Etymology
أثاث comes from the Arabic root ء-ث-ث, tied to the verb أَثَّ, which describes hair or plants growing thick and lush. From that sense of dense abundance, speakers extended the word to the accumulated goods and furnishings of a household. The noun follows the فَعَال pattern, common in Arabic for words that denote a collected mass of things. Arabic is a Semitic language, so it has no Indo-European root or cognates.
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