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قاعَة

hall /ˈqaːʕa/

nounB1#1436 most common

Also: large room, auditorium, function hall

Example sentences

هَذِهِ قاعَةٌ كَبيرةٌ.
This is a big hall.
نَدْرُسُ في القاعَةِ كُلَّ صَباحٍ.
We study in the hall every morning.
قاعَةُ المُحاضَراتِ مَليئةٌ بِالطُّلّابِ.
The lecture hall is full of students.
سَنَعْقِدُ الاجْتِماعَ في قاعَةِ المُؤْتَمَراتِ غَدًا.
We will hold the meeting in the conference hall tomorrow.
تَتَّسِعُ قاعَةُ الاحْتِفالاتِ لِأَكْثَرَ مِن أَلْفِ شَخْصٍ.
The function hall holds more than a thousand people.
بَعْدَ تَرْميمِها، أُعيدَ افْتِتاحُ قاعَةِ المَحْكَمةِ التاريخيّةِ أمامَ الجُمْهورِ.
After its restoration, the historic courtroom was reopened to the public.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeقاعَةٌقاعاتٌ
Genitiveقاعَةٍقاعاتٍ
Accusativeقاعَةًقاعاتٍ
Vocativeيا قاعَةُيا قاعاتُ

Word family

قاعbottom, floor, bed
قاعَة الدَّرْسclassroom
قاعَة المُحاضَراتlecture hall
قاعَة المُؤْتَمَراتconference hall
قاعاتhalls (plural)

Etymology

قاعَة comes from the triliteral root ق-و-ع, which carries the sense of low flat ground, a floor, or a bottom. The related noun قاع means the bed or bottom of a valley or sea. A قاعة is the large floored space inside a building, hence a hall or large room. The medial root letter wāw surfaces here as the long vowel ā.

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