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إِسْتُودِيُو

studio (a room or building for recording, filming, photography, or art) /ʔis.tuː.di.ˈjuː/

nounB2#3983 most common

Also: recording studio, art studio, film studio

Example sentences

هذا استوديو.
This is a studio.
أذهب إلى الاستوديو كل يوم.
I go to the studio every day.
سجّلنا الأغنية في استوديو التسجيل.
We recorded the song in the recording studio.
افتتح المصوّر استوديو جديدًا للتصوير الفوتوغرافي في وسط المدينة.
The photographer opened a new studio for photography downtown.
تمتلك شركة الإنتاج ثلاثة استوديوهات مجهزة بأحدث تقنيات الصوت والصورة.
The production company owns three studios equipped with the latest sound and image technology.
على الرغم من صغر مساحته، تمكّن المخرج من تحويل الاستوديو إلى مساحة إبداعية تحاكي أجواء الأفلام الكبرى.
Despite its small size, the director managed to turn the studio into a creative space that mirrors the atmosphere of big films.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeاستوديواستوديوهاتُ
Genitiveاستوديواستوديوهاتِ
Accusativeاستوديواستوديوهاتِ
Vocativeاستوديواستوديوهات

Word family

استوديوهاتstudios (plural)
استوديو تسجيلrecording studio
استوديو تصويرphotography studio
استوديو فنيart studio

Etymology

The word was borrowed into Arabic in the twentieth century from English or French "studio", both of which trace back to Italian "studio". The Italian word descends from Latin "studium", meaning zeal or application to a pursuit, which gave the sense of a place set aside for artistic or intellectual work. Arabic added a prosthetic "i" at the start, a common adjustment for loanwords that begin with a consonant cluster foreign to Arabic phonology.

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