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عَشاء
dinner /ʕaˈʃaːʔ/
nounA1#474 most common
Also: supper, evening meal
Example sentences
العَشاءُ لَذيذٌ.
The dinner is delicious.
نَتَناوَلُ العَشاءَ في السّاعةِ الثّامِنةِ مَساءً.
We have dinner at eight in the evening.
دَعانا الجيرانُ إلى العَشاءِ يَومَ الجُمُعة.
The neighbors invited us to dinner on Friday.
بَعدَ العَشاءِ، ساعَدْتُ أُمّي في غَسلِ الأطباق.
After dinner, I helped my mother wash the dishes.
أقامَتِ الشَّرِكةُ عَشاءً رَسمِيّاً تَكريماً لِلمُوَظَّفينَ المُتَقاعِدين.
The company held a formal dinner to honor the retiring employees.
لم يَكُنِ العَشاءُ مُجَرَّدَ وَجبةٍ، فَقَد كانَ مُناسَبةً أعادَتْ شَملَ العائِلةِ بَعدَ سَنَواتٍ مِنَ الفِراق.
The dinner was more than a meal. It was an occasion that brought the family back together after years apart.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عَشاءٌ | أَعْشِيَةٌ |
| Genitive | عَشاءٍ | أَعْشِيَةٍ |
| Accusative | عَشاءً | أَعْشِيَةً |
| Vocative | يا عَشاءُ | يا أَعْشِيَةُ |
Word family
تَعَشَّىto have dinner, to dine
عَشّىto give someone dinner
عِشاءnightfall; the evening (night) prayer
عَشِيّةevening, the time around dusk
Etymology
عَشاء comes from the triliteral Semitic root ع-ش-و/ي, which carries the sense of evening and nightfall. The word names the meal eaten at that time of day. It belongs to the same family as عَشِيّة, the early evening, and عِشاء, the time of nightfall and the night prayer.
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