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بَلَدِيَّة

municipality /ba.la.ˈdij.ja/

nounB2#3728 most common

Also: town hall, municipal council, city hall

Example sentences

بَلَدِيَّة المدينة كبيرة.

The city's municipality is big.

ذهبتُ إلى البَلَدِيَّة لتجديد جواز سفري.

I went to the municipality to renew my passport.

تُقدّم البَلَدِيَّة خدمات النظافة للسكان.

The municipality provides cleaning services to residents.

انتُخب رئيس جديد لِلبَلَدِيَّة الأسبوع الماضي.

A new head of the municipality was elected last week.

تسعى البَلَدِيَّات إلى تحسين البنية التحتية في الأحياء الفقيرة.

Municipalities strive to improve infrastructure in poor neighborhoods.

أثار قرار البَلَدِيَّة بشأن رفع الضرائب المحلية جدلاً واسعاً بين السكان.

The municipality's decision to raise local taxes sparked wide controversy among residents.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	بَلَدِيَّةٌ	بَلَدِيَّاتٌ
Genitive	بَلَدِيَّةٍ	بَلَدِيَّاتٍ
Accusative	بَلَدِيَّةً	بَلَدِيَّاتٍ
Vocative	يا بَلَدِيَّةُ	يا بَلَدِيَّاتُ

Word family

بَلَدcountry, town بَلَدِيّlocal, municipal, civic

بِلادcountry, lands

بَلْدَةtown, locality

بَلَدِيَّاتmunicipalities (plural)

Etymology

بَلَدِيَّة comes from the noun بَلَد (balad, "land, town, country"), extended with the nisba suffix ية that turns a noun into a relational abstract noun. The result names the institution tied to the town, its local government. This is a Semitic root, not an Indo-European one, so it has no PIE ancestor.

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