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كُلِّيَّة
college /kulˈlij.ja/
nounA2#1110 most common
Also: faculty (university division), school within a university, totality, universality
Example sentences
هَذِهِ كُلِّيَّةٌ كَبِيرَةٌ.
This is a big college.
أَخِي يَدْرُسُ فِي كُلِّيَّةِ الطِّبِّ.
My brother studies at the college of medicine.
تَقَعُ الكُلِّيَّةُ بِجِوَارِ المَكْتَبَةِ المَرْكَزِيَّةِ.
The college sits next to the central library.
تَخَرَّجْتُ مِنْ كُلِّيَّةِ الهَنْدَسَةِ قَبْلَ خَمْسِ سَنَوَاتٍ.
I graduated from the college of engineering five years ago.
قَرَّرَتْ إِدَارَةُ الكُلِّيَّةِ تَطْوِيرَ المَنَاهِجِ لِمُوَاكَبَةِ سُوقِ العَمَلِ.
The college administration decided to update the curricula to keep pace with the job market.
تُعَدُّ هَذِهِ الكُلِّيَّةُ مِنْ أَعْرَقِ المُؤَسَّسَاتِ الأَكَادِيمِيَّةِ الَّتِي أَسْهَمَتْ فِي تَكْوِينِ النُّخْبَةِ الفِكْرِيَّةِ.
This college ranks among the most venerable academic institutions that helped form the intellectual elite.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | كُلِّيَّةٌ | كُلِّيَّاتٌ |
| Genitive | كُلِّيَّةٍ | كُلِّيَّاتٍ |
| Accusative | كُلِّيَّةً | كُلِّيَّاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا كُلِّيَّةُ | يا كُلِّيَّاتُ |
Word family
كُلّall, whole, every
كُلِّيّtotal, universal
كُلِّيًّاtotally, entirely
بِالكُلِّيَّةcompletely, altogether
Etymology
كُلِّيَّة derives from كُلّ, meaning all or whole. The abstract suffix ـِيَّة turned it into a noun for totality or universality. In modern usage it came to name a college or faculty, a complete division of a university. The root k-l-l for all is shared across the Semitic languages.
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