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قِطاع
sector (economic, geometric, or geographic) /qɪˈtˤɑːʕ/
nounB1#2828 most common
Also: zone (military), division, segment
Example sentences
أبي يعمل في القطاع العام.
My father works in the public sector.
تحسّن القطاع الصحي هذا العام.
The health sector improved this year.
يواجه القطاع الزراعي تحديات كثيرة بسبب الجفاف.
The agricultural sector faces many challenges because of drought.
استثمرت الحكومة مليارات الدولارات في قطاع الطاقة المتجددة.
The government invested billions of dollars in the renewable energy sector.
يشهد قطاع التكنولوجيا المالية نموا متسارعا رغم التحديات التنظيمية.
The fintech sector is seeing accelerated growth despite regulatory challenges.
أدى التكامل بين القطاعين العام والخاص إلى إعادة هيكلة السياسات الاقتصادية بشكل جذري.
The integration between the public and private sectors led to a radical restructuring of economic policy.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قِطاعٌ | قِطاعَاتٌ |
| Genitive | قِطاعٍ | قِطاعَاتٍ |
| Accusative | قِطاعاً | قِطاعَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا قِطاعُ | يا قِطاعَاتُ |
Word family
قَطَعَ (qaṭaʿa)to cut
قِطعة (qiṭʿa)a piece, a part
مقطع (maqṭaʿ)a segment or section
قاطِع (qāṭiʿ)decisive, categorical
انقطاع (inqiṭāʿ)an interruption, a cutoff
Etymology
قِطاع comes from the triliteral Semitic root ق-ط-ع, which carries the core sense of cutting or severing. The فِعال pattern applied to this root produces a noun for the resulting piece: a portion cut off from a whole. Modern usage extended that image to abstract divisions of an economy, a map, or a circle.
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