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حُجْرَة
room /ˈħudʒ.ra/
nounB1#2366 most common
Also: chamber, cell (a small enclosed room, as in a clinic or school)
Example sentences
هٰذِهِ حُجْرَتِي.
This is my room.
حُجْرَةُ النَّوْمِ فِي الطَّابِقِ الْعُلْوِيِّ.
The bedroom is on the upper floor.
نَامَ الطِّفْلُ فِي حُجْرَتِهِ بَعْدَ قِصَّةٍ قَصِيرَةٍ.
The child slept in his room after a short story.
تَحْتَوِي هٰذِهِ الشَّقَّةُ عَلَى ثَلَاثِ حُجُرَاتٍ وَمَطْبَخٍ وَاسِعٍ.
This apartment has three rooms and a spacious kitchen.
طَلَبَ الْمُدِيرُ مِنَ الْمُوَظَّفِينَ الِانْتِظَارَ فِي حُجْرَةِ الِاجْتِمَاعَاتِ حَتَّى يَنْتَهِيَ الِاجْتِمَاعُ الطَّارِئُ.
The manager asked the employees to wait in the meeting room until the emergency meeting ended.
أُعِيدَ تَأْثِيثُ الْحُجُرَاتِ الدَّاخِلِيَّةِ لِلْمُسْتَشْفَى بِهَدَفِ تَحْسِينِ رَاحَةِ الْمَرْضَى أَثْنَاءَ فَتْرَةِ التَّعَافِي.
The inner rooms of the hospital were refurnished to improve patients' comfort during the recovery period.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | حُجْرَةٌ | حُجُرَاتٌ |
| Genitive | حُجْرَةٍ | حُجُرَاتٍ |
| Accusative | حُجْرَةً | حُجُرَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يَا حُجْرَةُ | يَا حُجُرَاتُ |
Word family
حَجَرstone
حِجْرlap; sanctuary, enclosure
حَجْرlegal interdiction, restraint
حَجَّارstonemason, quarryman
Etymology
حُجْرَة comes from the triliteral Arabic root ح ج ر (ḥ-j-r), which carries the core sense of restriction and enclosure. The same root gives حَجَر (ḥajar, stone) and حِجْر (ḥijr, a lap or a protected enclosure), both tied to the idea of a bounded space or a solid wall. حُجْرَة itself is a noun of place built on this root, naming a small enclosed space set off within a larger structure, a room or chamber. This is a native Semitic formation, not a borrowing.
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