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تَحْتَ
under /ˈtaħta/
nounA1#305 most common
Also: below, beneath, underneath
Example sentences
الكِتابُ تَحْتَ الطّاوِلَةِ.
The book is under the table.
القِطَّةُ تَحْتَ الكُرْسِيِّ.
The cat is under the chair.
وَضَعْتُ حَقِيبَتي تَحْتَ السَّريرِ.
I put my bag under the bed.
يَجْلِسُ الأَطْفالُ تَحْتَ الشَّجَرَةِ في الظَّهيرَةِ.
The children sit under the tree at noon.
يَعْمَلُ المُهَنْدِسونَ تَحْتَ ضَغْطٍ كَبيرٍ لإِنْهاءِ المَشْروعِ في مَوْعِدِهِ.
The engineers work under great pressure to finish the project on time.
ظَلَّ الاقْتِصادُ تَحْتَ وَطْأَةِ العُقوباتِ سَنَواتٍ طَويلَةً قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَعافى.
The economy stayed under the weight of the sanctions for long years before it recovered.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تَحْتُ (cut off from iḍāfa, e.g. مِنْ تَحْتُ) | — |
| Genitive | تَحْتِ (e.g. مِنْ تَحْتِ الطّاوِلَةِ) | — |
| Accusative | تَحْتَ (standard adverbial form) | — |
| Vocative | — | — |
Word family
تَحْتانِيّlower, nether
تَحْتِيّsub-, lower (infrastructure sense)
أَسْفَلbottom, lowest partفَوْقَabove, over (antonym)تَحْتَ الأَرْضِunderground
Etymology
تَحْتَ comes from a Proto-Semitic word for the space below something. The same form appears across the Semitic family with the sense of under or beneath. In Arabic it works as an adverb of place, and the noun that follows it takes the genitive case.
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