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سِتار
curtain /siˈtaːr/
nounB1#2938 most common
Also: veil, screen, covering
Example sentences
هذا سِتارٌ أزرق.
This is a blue curtain.
أغلقتُ السِتار قبل أن أنام.
I closed the curtain before I slept.
سقط السِتار في نهاية المسرحية.
The curtain fell at the end of the play.
كان القمر مختفياً خلف سِتارٍ من الغيوم.
The moon was hidden behind a veil of clouds.
رُفع السِتار رسمياً عن المعرض الفني أمس.
The curtain was officially raised on the art exhibition yesterday.
انهار الستار الحديدي الذي كان يفصل أوروبا الشرقية عن الغربية خلال الحرب الباردة.
The Iron Curtain that separated Eastern Europe from Western Europe during the Cold War collapsed.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | سِتارٌ | أَسْتارٌ |
| Genitive | سِتارٍ | أَسْتارٍ |
| Accusative | سِتاراً | أَسْتاراً |
| Vocative | يا سِتارُ | يا أَسْتارُ |
Word family
سِتارة (sitāra)curtain (household, everyday word)
سَتَرَ (satara)to cover, conceal, hide
سَتْر (satr)covering, concealment, modesty
مَسْتور (mastūr)hidden, concealed
سَتَّار (sattār)one who conceals faults (used as a divine epithet, ya Sattar)
Etymology
سِتار comes from the Arabic root س ت ر (s-t-r), whose verb ستر means to cover or conceal. The noun follows the فِعَال pattern, which often names an object or instrument used to do the action of the root, so سِتار is literally the thing that covers or hides. The root is old and native to Arabic, shared across Semitic languages with the general sense of hiding or shielding.
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