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سَهْل
plain (flat, low-lying land) /ˈsahl/
nounA1#551 most common
Also: lowland, level ground, flatland
Example sentences
هٰذَا سَهْلٌ وَاسِعٌ.
This is a wide plain.
نَزْرَعُ القَمْحَ فِي السَّهْلِ.
We grow wheat in the plain.
تَمْتَدُّ السُّهُولُ الخَضْرَاءُ حَتَّى الأُفُقِ.
The green plains stretch to the horizon.
يَعِيشُ الفَلَّاحُونَ فِي السَّهْلِ السَّاحِلِيِّ مُنْذُ قُرُونٍ.
Farmers have lived in the coastal plain for centuries.
تَتَمَيَّزُ سُهُولُ البِلَادِ بِتُرْبَتِهَا الخَصْبَةِ الَّتِي تُلَائِمُ الزِّرَاعَةَ.
The country's plains are marked by fertile soil suited to farming.
عَلَى الرَّغْمِ مِنِ اتِّسَاعِ السَّهْلِ، فَإِنَّ نُدْرَةَ المِيَاهِ تَحُدُّ مِنْ إِمْكَانِيَّةِ اسْتِغْلَالِهِ زِرَاعِيًّا.
Despite the plain's vastness, water scarcity limits how far it can be farmed.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | سَهْلٌ | سُهُولٌ |
| Genitive | سَهْلٍ | سُهُولٍ |
| Accusative | سَهْلاً | سُهُولاً |
| Vocative | يَا سَهْلُ | يَا سُهُولُ |
Word family
سَهْلeasy, simpleسُهُولَةease, facility
سَهَّلَto facilitate, make easy
سَهْلِيّlowland, of the plains
سُهُولplains (plural)
Etymology
The noun comes from the triliteral root س-ه-ل (s-h-l), which carries the idea of smoothness and the absence of obstacles. From the sense of level, even ground it took the concrete meaning of a plain, a stretch of flat low land. The common adjective سَهْل, meaning easy, springs from the same root and the same underlying picture of a surface that offers no resistance.
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