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ساقِطَة
fallen woman /ˈsaː.qi.tˤa/
nounB1#2553 most common
Also: loose woman, woman of ill repute, degenerate woman
Example sentences
هِيَ ساقِطَةٌ.
She is a fallen woman.
قالَ الجيرانُ إنَّها امرأةٌ ساقِطَةٌ.
The neighbors said she is a fallen woman.
عومِلَت في الرِّوايَةِ كَامْرَأَةٍ ساقِطَةٍ رَغْمَ بَراءَتِها.
In the novel she was treated as a fallen woman despite her innocence.
وَصَفَتِ الصُّحُفُ المُمَثِّلَةَ بِأَنَّها ساقِطَةٌ بَعْدَ الفَضيحَةِ.
The newspapers described the actress as a fallen woman after the scandal.
لا يَزالُ المُجْتَمَعُ يُطْلِقُ لَقَبَ "ساقِطَة" عَلى كُلِّ امْرَأَةٍ تَخْرُجُ عَنِ الأَعْرافِ التَّقْليدِيَّةِ.
Society still applies the label 'fallen woman' to any woman who departs from traditional norms.
تُعيدُ الرِّوايَةُ النَّظَرَ في مَفْهومِ "المَرْأَةِ السَّاقِطَةِ" بِوَصْفِهِ بِناءً اجْتِماعِيًّا أَكْثَرَ مِنْهُ حَقيقَةً أَخْلاقِيَّةً.
The novel reconsiders the concept of the 'fallen woman' as a social construct rather than a moral fact.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ساقِطَةٌ | ساقِطَاتٌ |
| Genitive | ساقِطَةٍ | ساقِطَاتٍ |
| Accusative | ساقِطَةً | ساقِطَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا ساقِطَةُ | يا ساقِطَاتُ |
Word family
سَقَطَto fall, drop
سُقُوطfalling, downfallإسْقاطdropping, overthrow, abortion
ساقِطfallen man, degenerate (male)
مَسْقَطplace where something falls; birthplace
Etymology
ساقِطَة is the feminine active participle of the verb سَقَطَ (saqaṭa), 'to fall' or 'to drop', built on the Semitic root س-ق-ط. As a noun it moved from the plain sense of 'a woman who has fallen' to a moral judgment: a woman seen as immoral or of loose character. This mirrors the English phrase 'fallen woman', which carries the same shift from physical fall to moral verdict.
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