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خُطَّة
plan /ˈxutˤ.tˤa/
nounA1#395 most common
Also: scheme, strategy, plan of action
Example sentences
عِنْدِي خُطَّة.
I have a plan.
ما خُطَّتُكَ لِنِهايَةِ الأُسْبوع؟
What is your plan for the weekend?
وَضَعْنا خُطَّةً جَديدَةً لِلْمَشْروع.
We made a new plan for the project.
فَشِلَتِ الخُطَّةُ لِأَنَّنا لَمْ نَسْتَعِدَّ جَيِّداً.
The plan failed because we did not prepare well.
تَتَطَلَّبُ الخُطَّةُ الاقْتِصادِيَّةُ الجَديدَةُ مُوافَقَةَ البَرْلَمان.
The new economic plan requires the approval of parliament.
لَوْ نَفَّذْنا الخُطَّةَ بِحَذافيرِها لَتَجَنَّبْنا هٰذِهِ الأَزْمَة.
Had we carried out the plan to the letter, we would have avoided this crisis.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | خُطَّةٌ | خُطَطٌ |
| Genitive | خُطَّةٍ | خُطَطٍ |
| Accusative | خُطَّةً | خُطَطًا |
| Vocative | يا خُطَّةُ | يا خُطَطُ |
Word family
خَطّline; handwriting; script
خَطَّطَto plan; to draw lines
تَخْطِيطplanningمُخَطَّطdiagram; plan; layout
Etymology
خُطَّة comes from the Arabic root خ-ط-ط, which means to draw a line or mark something out. A plan is the course you trace before you act, so the drawn line becomes the scheme. The same root gives خَطّ, a line or piece of handwriting, and the verb خَطَّطَ, to plan. The word is Semitic in origin and has no Indo-European root.
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