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كُوخ
hut /kuːx/
nounB1#2616 most common
Also: cabin, shack, cottage
Example sentences
هذا كوخ صغير.
This is a small hut.
نعيش في كوخ قرب الغابة.
We live in a hut near the forest.
بنى الصياد كوخًا من الخشب على الشاطئ.
The fisherman built a wooden hut on the beach.
كان الكوخ القديم مليئًا بالذكريات رغم بساطته.
The old hut was full of memories despite its simplicity.
تحول الكوخ المتهالك إلى مأوى مؤقت للاجئين بعد الفيضان.
The crumbling hut turned into a temporary shelter for refugees after the flood.
على الرغم من أن الكوخ لم يكن أكثر من أربعة جدران خشبية وسقف من القش، إلا أنه ظل رمزًا للبساطة والانعزال عن صخب المدينة.
Although the hut was nothing more than four wooden walls and a straw roof, it remained a symbol of simplicity and distance from the city's noise.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | كُوخٌ | أَكْوَاخٌ |
| Genitive | كُوخٍ | أَكْوَاخٍ |
| Accusative | كُوخًا | أَكْوَاخًا |
| Vocative | يَا كُوخُ | يَا أَكْوَاخُ |
Word family
كوخhut, cabin
أكواخhuts, cabins (plural)
كويخlittle hut (diminutive)
Etymology
Kūkh is a native Arabic noun built on the triliteral root k-w-kh. The root carries the core sense of a small, simple dwelling and has no wider extension into other verb forms in standard usage. As a Semitic root, it has no Indo-European origin, so no PIE reconstruction applies.
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