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صالَة
hall (a large room, e.g. gym, airport lounge, or reception room) /ˈsˤaː.la/
nounB1#2508 most common
Also: gym (short for صالة رياضية), lounge, living room (in some dialects)
Example sentences
هذه صالة كبيرة.
This is a big hall.
أذهب إلى الصالة الرياضية كل يوم.
I go to the gym every day.
ننتظر الطائرة في صالة المغادرة.
We are waiting for the plane in the departure hall.
افتُتحت صالة عرض جديدة للفنون في وسط المدينة.
A new art exhibition hall opened downtown.
كانت صالة الاستقبال في الفندق مزدحمة بالضيوف القادمين من مؤتمر دولي.
The hotel's reception hall was crowded with guests arriving from an international conference.
على الرغم من التجديدات المكلفة، لم تستعد صالة المسرح رونقها القديم الذي عرفته أجيال من عشاق الفن.
Despite the costly renovations, the theater hall did not regain the old splendor known to generations of art lovers.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | صالةٌ | صالاتٌ |
| Genitive | صالةٍ | صالاتٍ |
| Accusative | صالةً | صالاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا صالةُ | يا صالاتُ |
Word family
صالة رياضيةgym
صالة عرضshowroom, exhibition hall
صالة الوصولarrivals hall
صالونsalon
Etymology
صالة is a loanword, not a native Arabic root. It traces back through French salle and Italian sala to a Germanic word for a hall or dwelling, the same source that gave French salon. Arabic borrowed it in the modern era for large rooms such as gyms, airport lounges, and reception halls. It is unrelated to the native Arabic root ص و ل, which produces the similar-looking word صولة, meaning an attack or onslaught.
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