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بَلَد
country /ˈba.lad/
nounA1#629 most common
Also: town, land, place
Example sentences
هَذَا بَلَدٌ جَمِيلٌ.
This is a beautiful country.
أُحِبُّ بَلَدِي كَثِيرًا.
I love my country very much.
مِصْرُ بَلَدٌ كَبِيرٌ فِي إِفْرِيقِيَا.
Egypt is a big country in Africa.
زُرْتُ بِلَادًا كَثِيرَةً فِي حَيَاتِي.
I have visited many countries in my life.
يَعِيشُ فِي بَلَدٍ غَرِيبٍ بَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَهْلِهِ.
He lives in a foreign country far from his family.
تُعَانِي بَعْضُ الْبُلْدَانِ مِنَ الْفَقْرِ وَالْحُرُوبِ.
Some countries suffer from poverty and wars.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بَلَدٌ | بِلَادٌ |
| Genitive | بَلَدٍ | بِلَادٍ |
| Accusative | بَلَدًا | بِلَادًا |
| Vocative | يَا بَلَدُ | يَا بِلَادُ |
Word family
بِلَادcountry, lands (plural)
بُلْدَانcountries (plural)
بَلَدِيّlocal, municipal, nativeبَلَدِيَّةmunicipality
بَلْدَةtown, townshipEtymology
بَلَد comes from the Semitic triliteral root b-l-d, tied to land and settled place. In Classical Arabic it first named a defined territory or locality. The meaning later widened to cover both a town and a whole country.
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