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رَحَب
spaciousness /ˈra.ħab/
nounB1#1956 most common
Also: roominess, ampleness, breadth
Example sentences
أهلاً بك على الرَّحَبِ والسَّعةِ.
Welcome to you, with open space and ease.
في هذا البيت رَحَبٌ كبير.
There is great spaciousness in this house.
استقبلنا الضيوف على الرَّحَبِ والسَّعةِ.
We received the guests with warmth and open arms.
شعرتُ بالرَّحَبِ حين دخلتُ الحديقة الواسعة.
I felt a sense of spaciousness when I entered the wide garden.
رَحَبُ الصدرِ من صفاتِ القائدِ الحكيمِ.
Broadness of chest, that is, magnanimity, is among the traits of the wise leader.
لم يجد في نفسه رَحَبًا لاحتمالِ تلك الإهانةِ الجارحةِ.
He found no room in himself to bear that wounding insult.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | رَحَبٌ | |
| Genitive | رَحَبٍ | |
| Accusative | رَحَبًا | |
| Vocative | يا رَحَبُ |
Word family
رَحْبwide, spacious
رَحُبَto be or become spacious
رَحيبroomy, ample
مَرْحَبًاwelcome (greeting)
رُحْبspaciousness, amplitude
Etymology
رَحَب comes from the Semitic root r-ḥ-b, meaning wide or spacious. The same root gives the common greeting مرحباً, which originally welcomed a guest into ample space. Hebrew shares the root in raḥav, wide, and reḥov, a broad street. There is no Indo-European connection.
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