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غَسِيل
laundry /ɣaˈsiːl/
nounB1#2435 most common
Also: washing, dialysis (in غسيل الكلى), money laundering (in غسيل الأموال)
Example sentences
أُعَلِّقُ الغَسِيلَ فِي الشُّرْفَةِ.
I hang the laundry on the balcony.
غَسِيلُ الأَطْبَاقِ يَسْتَغْرِقُ وَقْتًا طَوِيلًا.
Washing the dishes takes a long time.
وَضَعَتْ أُمِّي الغَسِيلَ فِي الغَسَّالَةِ صَبَاحًا.
My mother put the laundry in the washing machine this morning.
يَذْهَبُ جَدِّي إِلَى المُسْتَشْفَى ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ فِي الأُسْبُوعِ لِلْخُضُوعِ لِغَسِيلِ الكُلَى.
My grandfather goes to the hospital three times a week for kidney dialysis.
يَشْتَبِهُ المُحَقِّقُونَ فِي تَوَرُّطِ الشَّرِكَةِ فِي غَسِيلِ الأَمْوَالِ.
Investigators suspect the company is involved in money laundering.
تُظْهِرُ الوَثَائِقُ المُسَرَّبَةُ شَبَكَةً مُعَقَّدَةً مِنْ عَمَلِيَّاتِ غَسِيلِ الأَمْوَالِ عَبْرَ حِسَابَاتٍ وَهْمِيَّةٍ.
The leaked documents reveal a complex network of money-laundering operations run through fake accounts.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | غَسِيلٌ | None |
| Genitive | غَسِيلٍ | None |
| Accusative | غَسِيلًا | None |
| Vocative | يَا غَسِيلُ | None |
Word family
غَسَلَto wash
غَسَّالَةwashing machine
مَغْسَلَةsink; laundry roomاِغْتَسَلَto wash oneself, bathe
غُسْلritual full-body ablutionEtymology
غَسِيل comes from the triliteral Semitic root غ-س-ل (gh-s-l), which carries the core sense of washing or rinsing. The word itself is built on the فَعِيل pattern, a template Arabic often uses to turn a verb into a noun or adjective meaning roughly 'the thing acted upon'. So غَسِيل literally denotes 'that which is washed', which is why it settled into meaning laundry, the physical clothes rather than the act itself.
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