Learn Arabic › B1 › بِيئَة
بِيئَة
environment /ˈbiː.ʔah/
nounB1#2871 most common
Also: habitat, surroundings, milieu
Example sentences
هَذِهِ بِيئَةٌ جَمِيلَةٌ.
This is a beautiful environment.
يَجِبُ أَنْ نُحَافِظَ عَلَى البِيئَةِ.
We must protect the environment.
التَّلَوُّثُ يُؤَثِّرُ سَلْبًا عَلَى البِيئَةِ.
Pollution affects the environment badly.
تَعِيشُ هَذِهِ الحَيَوَانَاتُ فِي بِيئَاتٍ قَاسِيَةٍ.
These animals live in harsh environments.
تَسْعَى الحُكُومَةُ إِلَى تَبَنِّي سِيَاسَاتٍ تَحْمِي البِيئَةَ مِنَ التَّدَهْوُرِ.
The government seeks to adopt policies that protect the environment from degradation.
لَا يُمْكِنُ فَصْلُ التَّنْمِيَةِ الِاقْتِصَادِيَّةِ عَنِ الحِفَاظِ عَلَى تَوَازُنِ البِيئَةِ الطَّبِيعِيَّةِ عَلَى المَدَى البَعِيدِ.
Economic development cannot be separated from preserving the balance of the natural environment over the long term.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بِيئَةٌ | بِيئَاتٌ |
| Genitive | بِيئَةٍ | بِيئَاتٍ |
| Accusative | بِيئَةً | بِيئَاتٍ |
| Vocative | بِيئَةُ | بِيئَاتُ |
Word family
بَيْئِيّenvironmental
تَبَوَّأَto settle into, to attain a position
بَوَّأَto lodge or install someone in a place
مَبَاءَةden, lair, resting place
Etymology
بِيئَة comes from the Semitic root ب-و-أ, whose base verb بَاءَ carries the sense of returning to or settling into a place. The noun pattern فِعْلَة turns this into a word for a place of settling, and modern usage widened it to mean the surrounding environment or habitat. This is a native Arabic development, not a European loanword, so it has no Indo-European origin.
Learn Arabic the way that sticks.
Every word here is a full Polylex card with native audio and spaced repetition, so 4,080 words actually move into long-term memory.
Start free
Every word here is a full Polylex card with native audio and spaced repetition, so 4,080 words actually move into long-term memory.
Start free