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أَرْض
earth /ˈʔardˤ/
nounA1#252 most common
Also: ground, land, soil
Example sentences
الأَرْضُ كَبِيرَةٌ.
The earth is big.
أَجْلِسُ عَلَى الأَرْضِ.
I sit on the ground.
تَدُورُ الأَرْضُ حَوْلَ الشَّمْسِ.
The Earth revolves around the sun.
اِشْتَرَى أَبِي قِطْعَةَ أَرْضٍ في الرِّيفِ.
My father bought a plot of land in the countryside.
الأَرَاضِي الزِّرَاعِيَّةُ في هذِهِ المِنْطَقَةِ خَصْبَةٌ جِدّاً.
The agricultural lands in this region are very fertile.
مَنْ يَمْلِكُ الأَرْضَ يَمْلِكُ مُسْتَقْبَلَها، فالأَرْضُ ذاكِرَةُ الشُّعوبِ وهُوِيَّتُها.
Whoever owns the land owns its future, for the land is the memory of peoples and their identity.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أَرْضٌ | أَرَاضٍ |
| Genitive | أَرْضٍ | أَرَاضٍ |
| Accusative | أَرْضاً | أَرَاضِيَ |
| Vocative | يا أَرْضُ | يا أَرَاضِي |
Word family
الأَرْضthe Earth (planet); the ground
أَرْضِيّterrestrial, earthlyأَرْضِيَّةfloor; flooring; background
أَرَاضٍlands, territories (plural)
Etymology
أَرْض comes from a common Semitic word for the earth and ground. It appears across the Semitic languages with little change in meaning. The root is Semitic, not Indo-European, so its relatives are found in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Akkadian.
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