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كُلْوَة
kidney /ˈkul.wa/
nounA1#530 most common
Example sentences
هَذِهِ كُلْوَةٌ.
This is a kidney.
الكُلْوَةُ عُضْوٌ مُهِمٌّ في الجِسْم.
The kidney is an important organ in the body.
يَشْكو المَريضُ مِن أَلَمٍ في الكُلْوَة.
The patient complains of pain in the kidney.
أَجْرى الطَّبيبُ عَمَلِيَّةَ زَرْعِ كُلْوَة.
The doctor performed a kidney transplant operation.
تُنَقّي الكُلْوَةُ الدَّمَ مِنَ الفَضَلاتِ وتُنَظِّمُ ضَغْطَ الدَّم.
The kidney cleans the blood of waste and regulates blood pressure.
بَعْدَ فَشَلِ الكُلْوَةِ اضْطُرَّ المَريضُ إلى غَسيلٍ كُلَوِيٍّ مُنْتَظِم.
After kidney failure, the patient was forced into regular dialysis.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | كُلْوَةٌ | كُلًى |
| Genitive | كُلْوَةٍ | كُلًى |
| Accusative | كُلْوَةً | كُلًى |
| Vocative | يا كُلْوَةُ | يا كُلًى |
Word family
كُلْيةkidney (standard variant)
كُلَوِيّrenal, of the kidney
كُلًىkidneys (plural)
كَلاويkidneys (colloquial plural, often as food)
Etymology
The word comes from a common Semitic root for kidney. Arabic keeps two forms, كُلْوَة and كُلْية, from a root reconstructed as k-l-y. Cognates run across the Semitic family, from Akkadian to Hebrew. It is among the oldest shared body-part words in these languages.
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