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شَكْل
shape /ˈʃakl/
nounA1#191 most common
Also: form, appearance, kind
Example sentences
هٰذا شَكْلٌ جَميلٌ.
This is a beautiful shape.
ما هٰذا الشَّكْلُ؟
What is this shape?
أُحِبُّ شَكْلَ هٰذا البَيْتِ.
I like the shape of this house.
تَأْتي الكَلِماتُ في أَشْكالٍ مُخْتَلِفَةٍ.
Words come in different forms.
تَغَيَّرَ شَكْلُ المَدينَةِ بَعْدَ الحَرْبِ.
The shape of the city changed after the war.
لا يَهُمُّني الشَّكْلُ بِقَدْرِ ما يَهُمُّني المَضْمونُ.
Form matters to me less than content.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شَكْلٌ | أَشْكالٌ |
| Genitive | شَكْلٍ | أَشْكالٍ |
| Accusative | شَكْلاً | أَشْكالاً |
| Vocative | يا شَكْلُ | يا أَشْكالُ |
Word family
شَكَّلَto shape, to form
مُشْكِلَةproblemتَشْكيلformation, vocalization
شَكْليّformal
أَشْكالshapes, forms
Etymology
شَكْل comes from the Semitic root ش ك ل (sh-k-l), tied to forming, binding, and resemblance. The noun names the shape or outward form of a thing. The same root gives شَكَّلَ, to shape or to add vowel marks to a text, and مُشْكِلَة, a problem, from the sense of something tangled or unclear.
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