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ذَوْق
taste /ˈðawq/
nounB2#3469 most common
Also: aesthetic taste, discernment, flavor
Example sentences
حاسة الذوق تساعدنا على تمييز الطعام.
The sense of taste helps us tell foods apart.
لها ذوقٌ جميل في اختيار الملابس.
She has good taste in choosing clothes.
يختلف الذوق من شخص إلى آخر.
Taste differs from one person to another.
صمّم البيت بذوقٍ رفيع.
He designed the house with refined taste.
تتشكّل أذواق الناس الفنية عبر التجارب الثقافية المتراكمة.
People's artistic tastes form through accumulated cultural experience.
لا يمكن الحكم على الذوق الجمالي بمعايير موضوعية مطلقة، إذ يظل مشبعًا بالنسبية الثقافية.
Aesthetic taste cannot be judged by absolute objective standards, since it stays steeped in cultural relativity.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ذَوْقٌ | أَذْوَاقٌ |
| Genitive | ذَوْقٍ | أَذْوَاقٍ |
| Accusative | ذَوْقًا | أَذْوَاقًا |
| Vocative | يَا ذَوْقُ | يَا أَذْوَاقُ |
Word family
ذاقto taste
تذوّقto savor deliberately; aesthetic appreciation
مذاقflavor, the taste of a food
ذوّاقconnoisseur, gourmet
ذائقةthe sense of taste, the palate
Etymology
Dhawq is the verbal noun of the triliteral root dh-w-q, whose base verb dhaqa means to taste or to experience something directly. Classical Arabic already used this root both literally, for the sense of taste, and metaphorically, for firsthand experience, as in the Quranic phrase about every soul tasting death. Over time the word also came to mean aesthetic judgment, the trained sense that lets a person recognize quality in art, food, or manners.
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