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غَلْطَة
mistake /ˈɣal.tˤa/
nounA2#1346 most common
Also: error, blunder, slip
Example sentences
هَذِهِ غَلْطَة.
This is a mistake.
عَمِلْتُ غَلْطَةً صَغيرةً.
I made a small mistake.
لا تَقْلَقْ، كُلُّ إِنْسانٍ يَرْتَكِبُ غَلْطَةً أَحياناً.
Don't worry, everyone makes a mistake sometimes.
اِعْتَرَفَ المُديرُ بِغَلْطَتِهِ أَمامَ الفَريقِ كُلِّهِ.
The manager admitted his mistake in front of the whole team.
كَلَّفَتْهُ تِلْكَ الغَلْطَةُ الصَّغيرةُ مَنْصِبَهُ وَسُمْعَتَهُ مَعاً.
That small mistake cost him both his position and his reputation.
لَوْ لَمْ نَتَدارَكْ تِلْكَ الغَلْطَةَ في حِينِها، لَتَحَوَّلَتْ إِلى كارِثَةٍ يَصْعُبُ إِصْلاحُها.
Had we not caught that mistake in time, it would have turned into a disaster that is hard to fix.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | غَلْطَةٌ | غَلَطاتٌ |
| Genitive | غَلْطَةٍ | غَلَطاتٍ |
| Accusative | غَلْطَةً | غَلَطاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا غَلْطَةُ | يا غَلَطاتُ |
Word family
غَلِطَto make a mistake, to err
غَلَطerror, wrongness
مَغْلوطerroneous, incorrect
مُغالَطةfallacy, sophistry
غَلْطانmistaken, wrong (colloquial)
Etymology
غَلْطَة comes from the Arabic root غ-ل-ط, which carries the sense of erring or going wrong. It follows the فَعْلَة pattern, which names a single instance of an action. So the word means one mistake, one slip. The related verb غَلِطَ means to be wrong.
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