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مَضْجَع
bed /ˈmadˤ.dʒaʕ/
nounB2#4120 most common
Also: sleeping place, resting place, place of lying down
Example sentences
هٰذا مَضْجَعي.
This is my bed.
تَرَكْتُ مَضْجَعي مُبَكِّرًا.
I left my bed early.
كانَ مَضْجَعُهُ في زاويةِ الغُرْفَةِ.
His bed was in the corner of the room.
تَتَقَلَّبُ في مَضْجَعِها بِسَبَبِ الأَرَقِ.
She tosses in her bed because of insomnia.
تَتَجافى جُنوبُهُم عَنِ المَضاجِعِ يَدْعونَ رَبَّهُم خَوْفًا وَطَمَعًا.
Their sides forsake their beds, calling upon their Lord in fear and hope.
وَصَفَ الشّاعِرُ مَضْجَعَهُ الموحِشَ في قَصيدَتِهِ عَنِ الغُرْبَةِ.
The poet described his desolate resting place in his poem about exile.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَضْجَعٌ | مَضَاجِعُ |
| Genitive | مَضْجَعٍ | مَضَاجِعَ |
| Accusative | مَضْجَعًا | مَضَاجِعَ |
| Vocative | يَا مَضْجَعُ | يَا مَضَاجِعُ |
Word family
ضَجَعَto lie down
اِضْطَجَعَto lie down, recline (reflexive form)
ضَجيعbedfellow, companion who shares a bed
مُضاجَعةsharing a bed; a classical euphemism for marital intimacy
Etymology
مَضْجَع comes from the Arabic root ض-ج-ع (ḍ-j-ʿ), which carries the sense of lying down or reclining. The prefix م- (ma-) turns the root into a noun of place, so the word literally means 'the place where one lies down'. This pattern (mafʿal) is a standard and highly productive way in Arabic to derive place nouns from verbs.
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