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حَيْثُ
where (in the place that) /ˈħajθu/
adverbA1#294 most common
Also: since, in terms of, such that
Example sentences
اِجْلِسْ حَيْثُ تُحِبُّ.
Sit where you like.
ذَهَبْتُ إِلَى الحَدِيقَةِ حَيْثُ لَعِبَ الأَطْفَالُ.
I went to the garden, where the children played.
نَعِيشُ فِي مَدِينَةٍ حَيْثُ تُمْطِرُ كَثِيرًا.
We live in a city where it rains a lot.
تَأَخَّرَ القِطَارُ، حَيْثُ كَانَ الطَّقْسُ سَيِّئًا.
The train was late, since the weather was bad.
مِنْ حَيْثُ المَبْدَأُ، أَنا أُوافِقُ عَلَى اقْتِراحِكَ.
In principle, I agree with your proposal.
يَجِبُ تَقْيِيمُ المَشْرُوعِ مِنْ حَيْثُ جَدْواهُ الاقْتِصادِيَّةُ وأَثَرُهُ البِيئِيُّ.
The project must be assessed in terms of its economic feasibility and its environmental impact.
Word family
حَيْثُمَاwherever (conditional)
بِحَيْثُso that, such that
مِنْ حَيْثُin terms of, regarding
حَوْثُwhere (dialectal variant)
أَيْنَwhere (interrogative)Etymology
حَيْثُ is an old Arabic adverb of place. It is indeclinable and always carries a final -u, a fixed build vowel rather than a case ending. Some Arabic dialects use the variant حَوْثُ. The word is Semitic in origin and has no Indo-European root.
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