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غُضُون
folds, creases, wrinkles /ɣuˈdˤuːn/
nounB1#1871 most common
Also: furrows, in the course of, within (في غُضُون), ripples
Example sentences
سَأَعُودُ فِي غُضُونِ سَاعَةٍ.
I will be back within an hour.
سَيَنْتَهِي الْعَمَلُ فِي غُضُونِ أُسْبُوعٍ.
The work will be finished within a week.
ظَهَرَتْ غُضُونٌ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ مَعَ التَّقَدُّمِ فِي الْعُمْرِ.
Wrinkles appeared on his face as he grew older.
فِي غُضُونِ بِضْعَةِ أَيَّامٍ تَغَيَّرَ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ.
Within a few days everything changed.
كَانَتْ غُضُونُ الْجَبِينِ تَحْكِي قِصَّةَ سَنَوَاتٍ مِنَ التَّعَبِ.
The furrows of his brow told the story of years of fatigue.
فِي غُضُونِ الْعَقْدِ الْمَاضِي تَبَدَّلَتْ مَلَامِحُ الْمَدِينَةِ كَمَا تَتَبَدَّلُ غُضُونُ الْوَجْهِ.
Over the past decade the features of the city shifted the way the creases of a face shift.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | غَضْنٌ | غُضُونٌ |
| Genitive | غَضْنٍ | غُضُونٍ |
| Accusative | غَضْنًا | غُضُونًا |
| Vocative | يَا غَضْنُ | يَا غُضُونُ |
Word family
غَضْنfold, crease (singular)
تَغَضُّنwrinkling, creasing
غَضَّنَto wrinkle, to crease
مُغَضَّنwrinkled, creased
Etymology
غُضُون is the broken plural of غَضْن, from the triliteral Semitic root غ-ض-ن, which carries the sense of folding, bending, and creasing. The word names the folds of skin, cloth, or terrain. From this concrete sense grew the very common adverbial phrase فِي غُضُون, meaning within or in the course of a stretch of time, as if events were tucked into its folds.
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