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عِماد
pillar, support /ʕiˈmaːd/
nounB2#3922 most common
Also: mainstay, prop, tent-pole, Emad (as a male given name)
Example sentences
البيتُ لهُ عِمادٌ واحدٌ.
The house has one pillar.
عِمادُ الخَيْمةِ مَصْنوعٌ مِنَ الخَشَبِ.
The tent's pole is made of wood.
هُوَ عِمادُ العائِلةِ بَعْدَ وَفاةِ والِدِهِ.
He is the pillar of the family after his father's death.
الصَّلاةُ عِمادُ الدِّينِ.
Prayer is the pillar of religion.
بَنَى المُهَنْدِسونَ عُمُدَ الجِسْرِ مِنَ الفولاذِ المُقَوَّى.
The engineers built the bridge's pillars from reinforced steel.
كانَ ذٰلِكَ الزَّعيمُ عِمادَ الاستِقْرارِ السِّياسِيِّ في المِنْطَقةِ لِعُقودٍ.
That leader was the pillar of political stability in the region for decades.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عِمادٌ | عُمُدٌ |
| Genitive | عِمادٍ | عُمُدٍ |
| Accusative | عِماداً | عُمُداً |
| Vocative | يا عِمادُ | يا عُمُدُ |
Word family
عمودcolumn, pole
عميدdean; brigadier general
اعتمادreliance; accreditation
تعمّدto do deliberately, premeditate
عمدةvillage mayor, headman
Etymology
Ⓐrabic عِماد comes from the triliteral Semitic root ʿ-m-d, whose base sense is to lean on, prop up, or support. The same root gives the ordinary word for a column, عمود, and the verb عَمَدَ, to rely on or set one's mind to something deliberately. The root is old and shared across Semitic languages, not Indo-European, so it has no PIE ancestor.
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