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بِنايَة
building /biˈnaː.ja/
nounB1#2743 most common
Also: structure, edifice
Example sentences
هَذِهِ بِنايَةٌ كَبيرَةٌ.
This is a big building.
بِنايَتُنا قَريبَةٌ مِنَ السّوقِ.
Our building is close to the market.
سَكَنتُ في بِنايَةٍ جَديدَةٍ العامَ الماضي.
I lived in a new building last year.
تَمَّ تَشييدُ هَذِهِ البِنايَةِ قَبلَ خَمسينَ عامًا.
This building was constructed fifty years ago.
اِرتَفَعَت أَسعارُ الشُّقَقِ في البِناياتِ الحَديثَةِ بِشَكلٍ كَبيرٍ.
Apartment prices in modern buildings have risen sharply.
أَثارَ اِنهيارُ البِنايَةِ القَديمَةِ جَدَلًا واسِعًا حَولَ سَلامَةِ المَبانيِ في المَدينَةِ.
The collapse of the old building sparked wide debate about the safety of buildings in the city.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بِنايَةٌ | بِنايَاتٌ |
| Genitive | بِنايَةٍ | بِنايَاتٍ |
| Accusative | بِنايَةً | بِنايَاتٍ |
| Vocative | بِنايَةُ | بِنايَاتُ |
Word family
بَنَىto build
مَبْنىbuilding, structure (formal term)
بِناءconstruction, the act of buildingبَنّاءbuilder, construction worker
بانٍone who builds, builder
Etymology
بِنايَة comes from the Semitic root ب-ن-ي (b-n-y), meaning to build or construct. The noun follows the fi'āla pattern, which often marks the result or product of an action, so بِنايَة denotes the built structure itself rather than the act of building. The same root gives Arabic its everyday verb for building, بَنَى.
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