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أَهْدَأ
calmer /ˈʔahdaʔ/
nounB1#2472 most common
Also: quieter, more tranquil, the calmest
Example sentences
البحر أهدأ اليوم.
The sea is calmer today.
غرفتي أهدأ من غرفتك.
My room is quieter than yours.
اخترنا هذا الفندق لأنه أهدأ مكان في المدينة.
We chose this hotel because it's the calmest place in the city.
بعد منتصف الليل يصبح الشارع أهدأ بكثير.
After midnight the street becomes much quieter.
تعيش القرية حياة أهدأ من حياة المدينة الصاخبة.
The village lives a calmer life than the noisy city's.
لم أجد ركنًا أهدأ من هذا للقراءة.
I haven't found a corner calmer than this one for reading.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أهدأ | أهدأ |
| Genitive | أهدأ | أهدأ |
| Accusative | أهدأ | أهدأ |
| Vocative | أهدأ | أهدأ |
Word family
هدوءcalm, quietness, stillness
هادئcalm, quiet, still
يهدأto calm down, subside
هدّأto calm someone or something down
هدأةa lull, a brief spell of stillness
Etymology
أَهْدَأ comes from the Semitic root ه-د-أ, which carries the sense of settling down or falling still. The base verb هَدَأ means to calm down or subside, and أَهْدَأ is its elative form, used to say something is calmer or the calmest. Arabic is a Semitic language, not Indo-European, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root.
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