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مَحَلّ
place, location /maˈħall/
nounA2#764 most common
Also: shop, store, subject/locus (of dispute or esteem), grammatical position (in parsing)
Example sentences
هٰذَا مَحَلٌّ كَبِيرٌ.
This is a big shop.
أَذْهَبُ إِلَى المَحَلِّ كُلَّ صَباحٍ.
I go to the shop every morning.
اِشْتَرَيْتُ القَمِيصَ مِن مَحَلٍّ قَرِيبٍ مِن بَيْتِي.
I bought the shirt from a shop near my house.
هٰذِهِ المَسْأَلَةُ مَحَلُّ خِلافٍ بَيْنَ العُلَماءِ.
This issue is a subject of disagreement among scholars.
جاءَ اعْتِذارُهُ في مَحَلِّهِ، فَقَبِلَهُ الجَمِيعُ.
His apology came at the right moment, so everyone accepted it.
تُعَدُّ هٰذِهِ الجُمْلَةُ اسْتِئْنافِيَّةً لا مَحَلَّ لَها مِنَ الإِعْرابِ.
This sentence is deemed an independent clause with no grammatical position.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَحَلٌّ | مَحَلّاتٌ |
| Genitive | مَحَلٍّ | مَحَلّاتٍ |
| Accusative | مَحَلًّا | مَحَلّاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا مَحَلُّ | يا مَحَلّاتُ |
Word family
مَحَلِّيّ (maḥallī)local
مَحَلّة (maḥalla)district, quarter
حَلّ (ḥall)solution
حَلَّ (ḥalla)to solve; to settle, alight
مَحَلّات (maḥallāt)shops (plural)
Etymology
مَحَلّ comes from the triliteral root ح-ل-ل (ḥ-l-l), whose core sense is to alight, to settle, to take up residence. With the place-noun prefix ma-, the word names the place where something settles or is located. From that base it extended in trade to mean a shop, the fixed place where a business sits.
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