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طابِق
floor (of a building) /ˈtˤaːbiq/
nounA2#854 most common
Also: storey, level, tier
Example sentences
أسكنُ في الطابِقِ الأوّل.
I live on the first floor.
مكتبُ المديرِ في الطابِقِ الخامس.
The manager's office is on the fifth floor.
يتكوّنُ المبنى من ثمانيةِ طوابِقَ.
The building consists of eight floors.
صعِدْنا بالمصعدِ إلى الطابِقِ الأخيرِ لنشاهدَ المدينةَ من الأعلى.
We took the elevator up to the top floor to see the city from above.
قرّرتِ الشركةُ بناءَ طابِقٍ إضافيٍّ فوقَ المبنى القديم.
The company decided to build an additional floor on top of the old building.
اضطُرَّ السكّانُ إلى إخلاءِ الطابِقِ بأكملِهِ بعدَ أن تصاعدَ الدخانُ في بئرِ السلّم.
The residents had to evacuate the entire floor after smoke rose up the stairwell.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | طابِقٌ | طَوابِقُ |
| Genitive | طابِقٍ | طَوابِقَ |
| Accusative | طابِقاً | طَوابِقَ |
| Vocative | يا طابِقُ | يا طَوابِقُ |
Word family
طَبَقةlayer, stratum, social class
طَبَقplate, dishمُطابِقmatching, identical
طابَقَto match, to correspond
أطبَقَto close, to cover over
Etymology
طابِق comes from the triliteral root ط-ب-ق, which carries the sense of covering, layering, and matching. A storey is one layer laid over another, so the word names a building's floor as a stacked level. The same root yields طَبَقة, a layer or social class, and طَبَق, a plate. The plural is طَوابِق.
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