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شُعْبَة
branch (of an organization, road, or river) /ˈʃuʕ.ba/
nounB2#3541 most common
Also: division, department, section
Example sentences
هذه شُعْبَةٌ صغيرة في المستشفى.
This is a small department in the hospital.
أخي طالبٌ في الشُّعْبَة العلمية.
My brother is a student in the science track.
تنقسم الطريق إلى شُعْبَتين عند القرية.
The road splits into two branches near the village.
أسّست الوزارة شُعْبَة جديدة لمكافحة الفساد.
The ministry set up a new division to fight corruption.
تتفرّع شُعْبَة النهر إلى روافد صغيرة قبل أن تصبّ في البحر.
The river's branch splits into small tributaries before it flows into the sea.
نسّقت شُعْبَة الاستخبارات العسكرية عملية معقدة لتفكيك الشبكة عبر الحدود.
The military intelligence division coordinated a complex operation to dismantle the network across the border.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شُعْبَةٌ | شُعَبٌ |
| Genitive | شُعْبَةٍ | شُعَبٍ |
| Accusative | شُعْبَةً | شُعَباً |
| Vocative | يا شُعْبَةُ | يا شُعَبُ |
Word family
شَعْبpeople, nation
شَعَّبَto cause to branch, to ramify
تَشَعَّبَto branch off, to diverge
شَعْبِيّpopular, of the people, folkشُعُوبِيَّةShu'ubiyya, a historical movement asserting non-Arab ethnic equality
Etymology
شُعْبَة comes from the Semitic root sh-ʿ-b, which carries the idea of branching and splitting apart. The same root gives شَعْب (shaʿb), meaning 'people' or 'nation', on the logic that a people grows like a trunk that branches into tribes and clans. Arabic is a Semitic language, not an Indo-European one, so it has no Proto-Indo-European ancestor.
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