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قُماش
fabric /quˈmaːʃ/
nounB2#3711 most common
Also: cloth, textile
Example sentences
هٰذَا قُماشٌ جَمِيلٌ.
This is beautiful fabric.
أَشْتَرِي قُماشًا لِلْفُسْتَانِ.
I am buying fabric for the dress.
هٰذَا الْقُماشُ مَصْنُوعٌ مِنَ الْقُطْنِ.
This fabric is made of cotton.
تَبِيعُ هٰذِهِ الْمَحَلَّةُ أَنْوَاعًا مُخْتَلِفَةً مِنَ الْأَقْمِشَةِ.
This shop sells different types of fabric.
اِخْتَارَتِ الْخَيَّاطَةُ قُماشًا فَاخِرًا لِتَفْصِيلِ الْفُسْتَانِ.
The seamstress chose a luxurious fabric to tailor the dress.
تَتَفَاوَتُ جَوْدَةُ الْقُماشِ بِحَسَبِ نَوْعِ الْأَلْيَافِ الْمُسْتَخْدَمَةِ فِي نَسْجِهِ.
The quality of fabric varies according to the type of fibers used to weave it.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قُماشٌ | أَقْمِشَةٌ |
| Genitive | قُماشٍ | أَقْمِشَةٍ |
| Accusative | قُماشًا | أَقْمِشَةً |
| Vocative | يا قُماشُ | يا أَقْمِشَةُ |
Word family
قَمَشَ (qamasha)to gather odds and ends or scraps
قَمَّاش (qammāsh)cloth merchant, draper
أَقْمِشَة (aqmisha)fabrics, plural of qumāsh
تَقْمِيش (taqmīsh)the act of gathering scraps or clutter
Etymology
Qumāsh comes from the Arabic triliteral root q-m-sh. The base verb qamasha means to gather odds and ends, scraps picked up here and there, often junk. The noun qumāsh first named a heap of such gathered items, then narrowed in Modern Standard Arabic and most dialects to mean woven cloth. This is a native Semitic development, not a borrowing from another language family.
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