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مائِدَة
table (especially a dining table laid with food) /ˈmaː.ʔi.da/
nounB2#3841 most common
Also: dining table, spread of food
Example sentences
عَلَى الْمَائِدَةِ طَعَامٌ.
There is food on the table.
أُمِّي تُحَضِّرُ الْمَائِدَةَ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ.
My mother sets the table every day.
جَلَسْنَا حَوْلَ الْمَائِدَةِ لِنَتَنَاوَلَ الْعَشَاءَ.
We sat around the table to have dinner.
زَيَّنَتْ مَائِدَةَ الْعِيدِ بِأَطْبَاقٍ تَقْلِيدِيَّةٍ.
She decorated the holiday table with traditional dishes.
اِجْتَمَعَتِ الْعَائِلَاتُ حَوْلَ مَوَائِدِ الْإِفْطَارِ فِي رَمَضَانَ.
Families gathered around the iftar tables in Ramadan.
سُمِّيَتْ سُورَةُ الْمَائِدَةِ نِسْبَةً إِلَى قِصَّةِ الْمَائِدَةِ الَّتِي طَلَبَهَا الْحَوَارِيُّونَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ.
Surah al-Ma'idah is named after the story of the table that the disciples asked for from heaven.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَائِدَةٌ | مَوَائِدُ |
| Genitive | مَائِدَةٍ | مَوَائِدَ |
| Accusative | مَائِدَةً | مَوَائِدَ |
| Vocative | يَا مَائِدَةُ | يَا مَوَائِدُ |
Word family
مَوَائِدtables (plural)
ماد / يميدto sway, totter, be shaken
مَيْدswaying, dizziness
مائدة الرحمنcharity table (free communal meal, common in Ramadan)
Etymology
Mā'idah is a feminine participle-shaped noun built on the Semitic root m-y-d, whose verb māda/yamīdu means to sway or totter. Arab lexicographers explain the name as a table brought in already loaded with food, as if swaying under its weight, or one that comes and goes as it is carried in and cleared. The word gives its name to Surah al-Ma'ida in the Quran, which tells of a table sent down from heaven at the request of Jesus's disciples. As a Semitic word, it has no attested Proto-Indo-European root.
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