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شُغْل

work /ˈʃuɣl/

nounB2#3865 most common

Also: job, occupation, business (affair)

Example sentences

عِنْدِي شُغْلٌ كَثِيرٌ اليَوْمَ.

I have a lot of work today.

هَلْ عِنْدَكَ شُغْلٌ غَدًا؟

Do you have work tomorrow?

تَرَكْتُ شُغْلِي القَدِيمَ وَبَدَأْتُ شُغْلًا جَدِيدًا.

I left my old job and started a new job.

هِيَ مُنْهَمِكَةٌ فِي شُغْلِهَا مُنْذُ الصَّبَاحِ.

She has been absorbed in her work since morning.

تُشْرِفُ الوِزارَةُ عَلَى الأَشْغَالِ العامَّةِ فِي المَدِينَةِ.

The ministry oversees public works in the city.

تَرْبِيَةُ أَوْلادِهِ هِيَ شُغْلُهُ الشّاغِلُ.

Raising his children is his chief preoccupation.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	شُغْلٌ	أَشْغَالٌ
Genitive	شُغْلٍ	أَشْغَالٍ
Accusative	شُغْلًا	أَشْغَالًا
Vocative	يا شُغْلُ	يا أَشْغَالُ

Word family

شَغَلَ (shaghala)to occupy, keep someone busy

مَشْغُول (mashghūl)busy, occupied

انْشِغَال (inshighāl)preoccupation, being tied up with something

تَشْغِيل (tashghīl)operation, running (of equipment or a plant)

شَغَّالَة (shaghghāla)housemaid, female worker (colloquial)

Etymology

Shughl comes from the Arabic triliteral root sh-gh-l, whose base verb shaghala means to occupy or keep someone busy. Shughl itself is the verbal noun of that root, so it literally names the state of being occupied with something. The same root gave Arabic its everyday words for a busy person, for operating a machine, and for a preoccupation.

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