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شارِع
street /ˈʃaː.riʕ/
nounA1#497 most common
Also: road, avenue, the Lawgiver (in Islamic legal usage)
Example sentences
هٰذا شارِعٌ كَبيرٌ.
This is a big street.
بَيتي في هٰذا الشارِعِ.
My house is on this street.
يَلعَبُ الأَولادُ في الشارِعِ.
The boys are playing in the street.
اُنظُرْ يَميناً ويَساراً قبلَ أن تَعبُرَ الشارِعَ.
Look right and left before you cross the street.
أُغلِقَتْ شَوارِعُ المدينةِ بِسَبَبِ المُظاهَرات.
The city's streets were closed because of the demonstrations.
ما زالَ الشارِعُ الذي وُلِدتُ فيهِ يَحمِلُ الاسمَ نفسَه رَغمَ تَغَيُّرِ كُلِّ ما حَولَه.
The street where I was born still bears the same name, even though everything around it has changed.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شارِعٌ | شَوارِعُ |
| Genitive | شارِعٍ | شَوارِعَ |
| Accusative | شارِعاً | شَوارِعَ |
| Vocative | يا شارِعُ | يا شَوارِعُ |
Word family
شَوارِعstreets (plural)
شَرَعَto begin; to legislate
شَريعةsharia, Islamic law
تَشريعlegislation
مَشروعproject
Etymology
A شارِع is the active participle of the verb شَرَعَ, meaning to set out, to open a way, or to legislate. The street is read as that which opens a path and leads people onward. The same root gives شَريعة, the path to a watering place and, by extension, religious law.
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