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بَدْلَة
suit (a matching jacket and trousers) /ˈbad.la/
nounB2#3457 most common
Also: two-piece suit, outfit
Example sentences
هَذِهِ بَدْلَةٌ جَمِيلَةٌ.
This is a beautiful suit.
يَلْبَسُ أَبِي بَدْلَةً سَوْدَاءَ.
My father wears a black suit.
اِشْتَرَيْتُ بَدْلَةً جَدِيدَةً لِلْحَفْلَةِ.
I bought a new suit for the party.
يَحْتَاجُ إِلَى تَنْظِيفِ بَدْلَتِهِ قَبْلَ الِاجْتِمَاعِ.
He needs to clean his suit before the meeting.
كَانَتْ بَدَلَاتُ رِجَالِ الأَعْمَالِ مُرَتَّبَةً بِعِنَايَةٍ فِي خِزَانَةِ الفُنْدُقِ.
The businessmen's suits were arranged carefully in the hotel closet.
عَلَى الرَّغْمِ مِنْ أَنَاقَةِ بَدْلَتِهِ الفَاخِرَةِ، لَمْ يَنْجَحْ فِي إِقْنَاعِ اللِّجْنَةِ بِجَدِّيَّتِهِ.
Despite the elegance of his luxurious suit, he failed to convince the committee of his seriousness.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بَدْلَةٌ | بَدَلَاتٌ |
| Genitive | بَدْلَةٍ | بَدَلَاتٍ |
| Accusative | بَدْلَةً | بَدَلَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا بَدْلَةُ | يا بَدَلَاتُ |
Word family
بَدَّلَto change, exchange
بَدِيلsubstitute, alternativeتَبْدِيلsubstitution, alterationمُبَادَلَةexchange, swap
بَدَلاً مِنinstead of
Etymology
بَدْلَة comes from the Arabic root ب-د-ل, which carries the core sense of exchange or substitution. The noun pattern فَعْلَة marks a single instance, so the word literally means something close to 'a change' or 'a set to change into.' Over time the meaning narrowed to a matching suit of clothes, especially the Western-style jacket-and-trousers outfit adopted widely in the modern Arab world. Arabic is a Semitic language, so this root has no Indo-European ancestor.
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