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عِلاج
treatment /ʕiˈlaːdʒ/
nounA2#759 most common
Also: cure, therapy, remedy
Example sentences
هذا عِلاج جيد.
This is a good treatment.
أحتاج إلى عِلاج.
I need treatment.
بدأ المريض العِلاج الجديد في المستشفى.
The patient began the new treatment at the hospital.
هذا المرض يحتاج إلى عِلاج طويل ومكلف.
This disease requires a long and expensive treatment.
قرّر الطبيب تغيير خطة العِلاج بعد أن فشلت الأدوية الأولى.
The doctor decided to change the treatment plan after the first medicines failed.
رغم التقدّم الكبير في الطب، لا تزال بعض الأمراض بلا عِلاج ناجع حتى اليوم.
Despite great progress in medicine, some diseases still have no effective cure today.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عِلاجٌ | عِلاجاتٌ |
| Genitive | عِلاجٍ | عِلاجاتٍ |
| Accusative | عِلاجًا | عِلاجاتٍ |
| Vocative | عِلاجُ | عِلاجاتُ |
Word family
عالَجَto treat, to cure
مُعالَجةtreatment, processing
مُعالِجtherapist, processorعِلاجيّtherapeutic
مُعالَجtreated
Etymology
عِلاج is the verbal noun of the verb عالَجَ, meaning to treat or to handle. It comes from the triliteral Semitic root ع-ل-ج, which carries the sense of working at something and tending to it. Over time the medical sense, treating a patient or a disease, became the common meaning.
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