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قَفَص
cage /ˈqa.fɑsˁ/
nounB1#2667 most common
Also: coop, crate
Example sentences
فِي القَفَصِ عُصْفُورٌ.
There is a bird in the cage.
اشْتَرَيْتُ قَفَصًا جَدِيدًا لِلْبَبَّغَاءِ.
I bought a new cage for the parrot.
وَضَعَ الرَّجُلُ الدَّجَاجَةَ فِي القَفَصِ.
The man put the chicken in the cage.
تَحَرَّكَ الأَسَدُ بِعَصَبِيَّةٍ دَاخِلَ قَفَصِهِ فِي حَدِيقَةِ الحَيَوَانِ.
The lion paced nervously inside its cage at the zoo.
وَقَفَ المُتَّهَمُ دَاخِلَ قَفَصِ الاتِّهَامِ يَسْتَمِعُ إِلَى الحُكْمِ.
The defendant stood in the dock listening to the verdict.
صَنَعَ النَّجَّارُ أَقْفَاصًا خَشَبِيَّةً مُحْكَمَةَ الإِغْلَاقِ لِنَقْلِ الطُّيُورِ النَّادِرَةِ عَبْرَ الحُدُودِ.
The carpenter made tightly sealed wooden cages for transporting rare birds across the border.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قَفَصٌ | أَقْفَاصٌ |
| Genitive | قَفَصٍ | أَقْفَاصٍ |
| Accusative | قَفَصًا | أَقْفَاصًا |
| Vocative | يَا قَفَصُ | يَا أَقْفَاصُ |
Word family
قَفَصَto tie a person's limbs together
قَفَّصَto put in a cage, to crate
تَقْفِيصthe act of caging or crating
قَفَّاصa maker of crates or cages
أَقْفَاصcages (plural)
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root q-f-ṣ, which carries the sense of binding or confining a body. The related verb qafaṣa means to tie a person's limbs together, and qafaṣ names the object that confines in the same way, a cage. The word also appears in Persian as qafas and in Turkish as kafes, with the direction of borrowing between Arabic and Persian debated among linguists.
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