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قَطْع
cutting /ˈqatˤʕ/
nounA2#811 most common
Also: cutting off, severance, amputation
Example sentences
قَطْعُ الخبزِ سهلٌ.
Cutting the bread is easy.
يَكْرَهُ الناسُ قَطْعَ الكهرباءِ في الصيفِ.
People hate the cutting of electricity in summer.
تَسَبَّبَ الحادثُ في قَطْعِ الطريقِ السريعِ.
The accident caused the cutting off of the highway.
قرّرَتِ الحكومةُ قَطْعَ العلاقاتِ مع تلك الدولةِ.
The government decided on the severing of relations with that country.
يُعاقِبُ القانونُ على قَطْعِ الأشجارِ في المحميّاتِ بغراماتٍ كبيرةٍ.
The law punishes the cutting of trees in the reserves with heavy fines.
رأى الفقهاءُ أنّ قَطْعَ يدِ السارقِ حدٌّ لا يُقامُ إلا بشروطٍ صارمةٍ.
The jurists held that the amputation of the thief's hand is a fixed penalty carried out only under strict conditions.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قَطْعٌ | قُطُوعٌ |
| Genitive | قَطْعٍ | قُطُوعٍ |
| Accusative | قَطْعاً | قُطُوعاً |
| Vocative | يا قَطْعُ | يا قُطُوعُ |
Word family
قَطَعَto cut
قِطْعَةpiece, fragmentقاطِعdecisive, sharpمَقْطَعsection, syllable, passageقَطيعةrupture, boycott
Etymology
قَطْع is the verbal noun of the verb قَطَعَ, to cut. The triliteral root ق-ط-ع carries the core sense of cutting, severing, and interrupting. It sits on the maṣdar pattern فَعْل. The root is shared across Semitic languages with words for cutting off.
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