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صَحِيفَة
newspaper /sˤaˈħiːfa/
nounA2#1253 most common
Also: page, sheet (of paper), scroll, scripture, record (of one's deeds or reputation)
Example sentences
هَذِهِ صَحِيفَةٌ جَدِيدَةٌ.
This is a new newspaper.
أَقْرَأُ الصَّحِيفَةَ كُلَّ صَبَاحٍ.
I read the newspaper every morning.
نَشَرَتِ الصَّحِيفَةُ خَبَرًا مُهِمًّا اليَوْمَ.
The newspaper published an important news story today.
اِشْتَرَى أَبِي صَحِيفَةً يَوْمِيَّةً مِنَ الكُشْكِ المُجَاوِرِ.
My father bought a daily newspaper from the nearby kiosk.
تَنَاوَلَتِ الصَّحِيفَةُ الأَزْمَةَ الاقْتِصَادِيَّةَ بِتَحْلِيلٍ عَمِيقٍ.
The newspaper covered the economic crisis with deep analysis.
لَمْ تَكُنْ صَحِيفَتُهُ نَاصِعَةً، إِذْ شَابَتْهَا فَضَائِحُ الفَسَادِ طَوَالَ سَنَوَاتِ حُكْمِهِ.
His record was not clean, since corruption scandals stained it throughout his years in power.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | صَحِيفَةٌ | صُحُفٌ |
| Genitive | صَحِيفَةٍ | صُحُفٍ |
| Accusative | صَحِيفَةً | صُحُفًا |
| Vocative | يَا صَحِيفَةُ | يَا صُحُفُ |
Word family
صُحُفnewspapers; scriptures, scrolls (plural)
صَحَفِيّjournalist
صَحَافَةjournalism, the press
مُصْحَفcodex; the Qur'an as a written book
صَحَّفَto misread or miswrite a text
Etymology
The word grows from the Semitic root ṣ-ḥ-f, tied to writing on a surface. Classical Ethiopic preserves the verb ṣaḥafa, "to write," and the noun maṣḥaf, "book," which points to a shared South Semitic background. In the Qur'an the plural ṣuḥuf names the scriptures of earlier prophets. The modern sense "newspaper" is a later extension of the older meaning, "a written sheet."
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