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فَصْل
season (of the year) /ˈfasˤl/
nounA2#1017 most common
Also: chapter, section, classroom, school class, separation; dismissal from work
Example sentences
فِي السَّنَةِ أَرْبَعَةُ فُصُولٍ.
There are four seasons in the year.
الرَّبِيعُ فَصْلِي الْمُفَضَّلُ.
Spring is my favorite season.
قَرَأْتُ الْفَصْلَ الْأَوَّلَ مِنَ الرِّوَايَةِ.
I read the first chapter of the novel.
يَجْلِسُ الطُّلَّابُ فِي الْفَصْلِ الدِّرَاسِيِّ بِهُدُوءٍ.
The students sit quietly in the classroom.
قَرَّرَتِ الشَّرِكَةُ فَصْلَ الْمُوَظَّفِ بَعْدَ تَكْرَارِ أَخْطَائِهِ.
The company decided to dismiss the employee after his repeated mistakes.
كَانَ حُكْمُ الْقَاضِي هُوَ الْفَصْلَ النِّهَائِيَّ فِي النِّزَاعِ الطَّوِيلِ.
The judge's ruling was the final settlement of the long dispute.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | فَصْلٌ (faṣlun) | فُصُولٌ (fuṣūlun) |
| Genitive | فَصْلٍ (faṣlin) | فُصُولٍ (fuṣūlin) |
| Accusative | فَصْلًا (faṣlan) | فُصُولًا (fuṣūlan) |
| Vocative | يَا فَصْلُ (yā faṣlu) | يَا فُصُولُ (yā fuṣūlu) |
Word family
فَصَلَ (faṣala)to separate, divide, dismiss
فَاصِل (fāṣil)divider, partition; decisive
فَاصِلَة (fāṣila)comma; interval
تَفْصِيل (tafṣīl)detail; tailoring
مَفْصِل (mafṣil)joint (anatomical)
Etymology
فَصْل is the verbal noun of the verb فَصَلَ, 'to separate or divide,' from the Semitic root ف-ص-ل. The core sense is cutting one part away from another, which branched into 'section,' 'chapter,' 'season,' and 'classroom,' each a division of a larger whole. The same root yields the legal sense of settling a dispute, the decisive cut between two claims.
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