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مَصْنَع
factory /ˈmasˤnaʕ/
nounB1#1892 most common
Also: plant, mill, works
Example sentences
هٰذا مَصْنَع كَبير.
This is a big factory.
يَعمَل أَبي في مَصْنَع.
My father works in a factory.
المَصْنَع قَريب مِن بَيتِنا.
The factory is near our house.
يُنتِج هٰذا المَصْنَع السَّيّارات.
This factory produces cars.
أُغلِقَ المَصْنَع بَعدَ سَنَواتٍ مِن الخَسائِر الماليّة.
The factory was shut down after years of financial losses.
لَولا الأزمة الاقتِصاديّة لَما اضطُرَّ المَصْنَع إلى تَسريح مِئات العُمّال.
Had it not been for the economic crisis, the factory would not have been forced to lay off hundreds of workers.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَصْنَعٌ | مَصانِعُ |
| Genitive | مَصْنَعٍ | مَصانِعَ |
| Accusative | مَصْنَعاً | مَصانِعَ |
| Vocative | يا مَصْنَعُ | يا مَصانِعُ |
Word family
صَنَعَto make, manufacture
صِناعةindustry, manufacturing
صانِعmaker, manufacturerمَصنوعmade, manufactured
صِناعيّindustrial
Etymology
The word derives from the triliteral Arabic root ص-ن-ع (ṣ-n-ʕ), meaning to make or manufacture. It uses the noun-of-place pattern mafʕal, which turns a verbal root into the location where the action happens. So مَصْنَع literally denotes the place of making.
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