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شاطِئ
shore /ˈʃaːtˤiʔ/
nounA2#1376 most common
Also: beach, coast, bank (of a sea or river)
Example sentences
نَذْهَبُ إِلى الشّاطِئ.
We go to the beach.
الأَطْفالُ يَلْعَبونَ عَلى الشّاطِئ.
The children play on the beach.
قَضَيْنا يَوْماً جَميلاً عَلى شاطِئِ البَحْر.
We spent a lovely day on the seashore.
تَمْتَدُّ الفَنادِقُ الفاخِرَةُ على طولِ الشّاطِئِ الرَّمْليّ.
Luxury hotels stretch along the sandy shore.
حَذَّرَتِ السُّلُطاتُ مِنَ السِّباحَةِ قُرْبَ الشّاطِئِ بِسَبَبِ التَّيّاراتِ القَوِيَّة.
The authorities warned against swimming near the shore because of strong currents.
تآكَلَ الشّاطِئُ تَدْريجِيّاً نَتيجَةَ ارْتِفاعِ مَنْسوبِ مِياهِ البَحْرِ على مَدى العُقودِ الماضِية.
The shore eroded gradually as the sea level rose over the past decades.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شاطِئٌ | شَواطِئُ |
| Genitive | شاطِئٍ | شَواطِئَ |
| Accusative | شاطِئاً | شَواطِئَ |
| Vocative | يا شاطِئُ | يا شَواطِئُ |
Word family
شاطِئshore, beach
شَواطِئshores, beaches (plural)
شاطِئِيّcoastal, of the shore
شَطَأَto reach the shore
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic triliteral root ش ط أ, which carries the sense of an edge or a margin of water. It follows the active participle pattern fāʿil, so it names the land that borders the sea. Arabic is a Semitic language, so the word has no Indo-European ancestry.
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