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مَسْبَح
swimming pool /ˈmasbaħ/
nounB2#3909 most common
Also: swimming place, pool
Example sentences
هذا مَسْبَح كبير.
This is a big swimming pool.
أنا أسبح في المَسْبَح كل يوم.
I swim in the pool every day.
يوجد مَسْبَح في الفندق.
There is a swimming pool in the hotel.
تعلّم الأطفال السباحة في مَسْبَح المدرسة الصيف الماضي.
The children learned swimming in the school's pool last summer.
افتتحت البلدية مَسْبَحاً عاماً جديداً مجهزاً بمعايير السلامة الدولية.
The municipality opened a new public pool equipped with international safety standards.
على الرغم من التكلفة الباهظة لصيانة المَسْبَح، قرر النادي الرياضي توسيعه لاستيعاب عدد أكبر من الأعضاء.
Despite the high cost of maintaining the pool, the sports club decided to expand it to hold more members.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَسْبَحٌ | مَسَابِحُ |
| Genitive | مَسْبَحٍ | مَسَابِحَ |
| Accusative | مَسْبَحاً | مَسَابِحَ |
| Vocative | يا مَسْبَحُ | يا مَسَابِحُ |
Word family
سَبَحَto swim
سِباحةswimming (the activity)
سابِحswimmer, swimming (active participle)
سَبّاحswimmer (as an occupation or skilled practitioner)
Etymology
Masbaḥ comes from the Arabic root s-b-ḥ, which carries the core sense of swimming. Arabic builds place nouns by adding the prefix mim (م) to a verb root in the pattern maf'al, so masbaḥ literally names the place where the action of the root happens: a place for swimming. The word is a native Arabic formation, not a borrowing.
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