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فَتْحَة
opening (aperture, slot, or hole) /ˈfatħa/
nounB1#2334 most common
Also: slot, vent, the Arabic short-vowel diacritic 'fatha'
Example sentences
هذه فتحة صغيرة.
This is a small opening.
فتحة الباب واسعة.
The door's opening is wide.
نظّفتُ فتحة التهوية في الحمّام.
I cleaned the ventilation opening in the bathroom.
تسرّبت المياه من فتحة صغيرة في الأنبوب.
Water leaked out through a small opening in the pipe.
تُستخدم الفتحة كعلامة تشكيل فوق الحرف للدلالة على صوت الفتح القصير.
The fatha is used as a diacritic mark above a letter to indicate the short 'a' sound.
أدّت فتحات التهوية المتعددة في تصميم المبنى إلى تحسين تدفق الهواء بشكل ملحوظ.
The building's multiple ventilation openings noticeably improved airflow.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | فَتْحَةٌ | فَتَحَاتٌ |
| Genitive | فَتْحَةٍ | فَتَحَاتٍ |
| Accusative | فَتْحَةً | فَتَحَاتٍ |
| Vocative | فَتْحَةُ | فَتَحَاتُ |
Word family
Etymology
فَتْحَة comes from the Arabic root ف-ت-ح (f-t-ḥ), meaning to open. It follows the noun-of-instance pattern faʿlah, so it denotes a single opening or a resulting gap rather than the act of opening in general. The same root gives Arabic its word for key and for the historical sense of conquest as an opening of territory.
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