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مَرْحَلَة

stage, phase /ˈmar.ħa.la/

nounA2#989 most common

Also: step (in a process), period, leg or stage of a journey

Example sentences

نَحْنُ فِي مَرْحَلَةٍ جَدِيدَةٍ.
We are in a new stage.
هَذِهِ مَرْحَلَةٌ مُهِمَّةٌ فِي حَيَاتِي.
This is an important stage in my life.
اِنْتَقَلَ الْمَشْرُوعُ إِلَى الْمَرْحَلَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ.
The project moved to the second phase.
مَرَّ الْفَرِيقُ بِمَرَاحِلَ صَعْبَةٍ قَبْلَ النَّجَاحِ.
The team went through difficult stages before success.
تَتَطَلَّبُ كُلُّ مَرْحَلَةٍ مِنْ مَرَاحِلِ الْبَحْثِ دِقَّةً عَالِيَةً.
Every stage of the research requires high precision.
لَا يُمْكِنُ تَجَاوُزُ هَذِهِ الْمَرْحَلَةِ الْحَرِجَةِ دُونَ تَخْطِيطٍ دَقِيقٍ.
This critical stage cannot be crossed without careful planning.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeمَرْحَلَةٌمَرَاحِلُ
Genitiveمَرْحَلَةٍمَرَاحِلَ
Accusativeمَرْحَلَةًمَرَاحِلَ
Vocativeيَا مَرْحَلَةُيَا مَرَاحِلُ

Word family

رَحَلَto depart, travel
رِحْلَةjourney, trip
مَرَاحِلstages, phases (plural)
رَاحِلdeparting; late, deceased
تَرْحِيلdeportation, transfer

Etymology

The word comes from the triconsonantal root ر-ح-ل (r-ḥ-l), which means to journey or depart. It is built on the مَفْعَلَة pattern, which forms nouns of place, time, or instance. The original sense was the distance covered in one day of travel, a single leg of a route. From there it broadened to mean any stage or phase of a process.

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