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قَصْر
palace /ˈqasˤr/
nounB1#1688 most common
Also: castle, manor, stately residence
Example sentences
هٰذَا قَصْرٌ جَمِيلٌ.
This is a beautiful palace.
يَعِيشُ المَلِكُ فِي قَصْرٍ كَبِيرٍ.
The king lives in a big palace.
زُرْنَا القَصْرَ القَدِيمَ أَمْسِ.
We visited the old palace yesterday.
يُحِيطُ بِالقَصْرِ سُورٌ عَالٍ وَحَدِيقَةٌ وَاسِعَةٌ.
A high wall and a wide garden surround the palace.
حُوِّلَ القَصْرُ المَلَكِيُّ إِلَى مُتْحَفٍ يَزُورُهُ السُّيَّاحُ.
The royal palace was turned into a museum that tourists visit.
تَجَوَّلْنَا بَيْنَ قُصُورِ الأَنْدَلُسِ الَّتِي تَشْهَدُ عَلَى عَظَمَةِ تِلْكَ الحَضَارَةِ.
We wandered among the palaces of Andalusia that bear witness to the greatness of that civilization.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قَصْرٌ | قُصُورٌ |
| Genitive | قَصْرٍ | قُصُورٍ |
| Accusative | قَصْراً | قُصُوراً |
| Vocative | يا قَصْرُ | يا قُصُورُ |
Word family
قُصُورpalaces (plural)
قَصِيرshortقَصَّرَto shorten, to fall short
مَقْصُورَةprivate box, enclosed compartment
Etymology
The Arabic قَصْر is a loanword from Latin castrum, a fortified camp, probably borrowed through Aramaic. Speakers later folded it into the native triliteral root q-ṣ-r. The same Latin source gave English its words for fortified buildings.
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