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حَدِيقَة
garden /ħaˈdiːqa/
nounA2#1046 most common
Also: park, public garden
Example sentences
الحَدِيقَةُ جَمِيلَةٌ.
The garden is beautiful.
أَذْهَبُ إِلَى الحَدِيقَةِ كُلَّ صَبَاحٍ.
I go to the park every morning.
يَلْعَبُ الأَطْفَالُ فِي الحَدِيقَةِ.
The children are playing in the park.
زَرَعَتْ جَدَّتِي وُرُودًا كَثِيرَةً فِي حَدِيقَةِ المَنْزِلِ.
My grandmother planted many roses in the house garden.
تَقَعُ الحَدِيقَةُ العَامَّةُ فِي وَسَطِ المَدِينَةِ، وَيَزُورُهَا النَّاسُ أَيَّامَ العُطَلِ.
The public park sits in the city center, and people visit it on holidays.
تُعَدُّ حَدَائِقُ قَصْرِ الحَمْرَاءِ مِنْ أَرْوَعِ نَمَاذِجِ فَنِّ تَنْسِيقِ الحَدَائِقِ فِي العِمَارَةِ الإِسْلَامِيَّةِ.
The gardens of the Alhambra are counted among the finest examples of landscape garden design in Islamic architecture.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | حَدِيقَةٌ | حَدَائِقُ |
| Genitive | حَدِيقَةٍ | حَدَائِقَ |
| Accusative | حَدِيقَةً | حَدَائِقَ |
| Vocative | يا حَدِيقَةُ | يا حَدَائِقُ |
Word family
حَدَائِقgardens (plural)
حَدِيقَة الحَيَوَانَاتzoo (literally 'garden of the animals')
حَدَقَةpupil of the eye
حَدَّقَto stare intently
أَحْدَقَto surround, encircle
Etymology
حَدِيقَة comes from the Arabic root ḥ-d-q, which carries the sense of surrounding or ringing something. A garden was first a plot of ground walled off and ringed by an embankment. The same root gives ḥadaqa, the pupil of the eye, the dark center ringed by the iris.
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