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مَطْبَخ
kitchen /ˈmatˤ.baχ/
nounA2#1282 most common
Also: cuisine (a national or regional style of cooking), galley (a ship's kitchen)
Example sentences
المَطْبَخُ نَظيفٌ.
The kitchen is clean.
أَطْبُخُ الطَّعامَ في المَطْبَخِ.
I cook food in the kitchen.
دَخَلَتْ أُمِّي إِلى المَطْبَخِ لِتُعِدَّ الغَداءَ.
My mother went into the kitchen to prepare lunch.
مَطْبَخُ هٰذا المَطْعَمِ مُجَهَّزٌ بِأَحْدَثِ الأَجْهِزَةِ.
This restaurant's kitchen is fitted with the latest appliances.
تُجَهَّزُ مَطابِخُ الفَنادِقِ بِمُعَدّاتٍ ضَخْمَةٍ لِخِدْمَةِ مِئاتِ الزُّبائِنِ.
Hotel kitchens are fitted with large equipment to serve hundreds of customers.
يُعَدُّ المَطْبَخُ قَلْبَ المَنْزِلِ، إِذْ تَجْتَمِعُ فيهِ العائِلَةُ لِتَتَبادَلَ أَطْرافَ الحَديثِ.
The kitchen is regarded as the heart of the home, where the family gathers to talk.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَطْبَخٌ | مَطَابِخُ |
| Genitive | مَطْبَخٍ | مَطَابِخَ |
| Accusative | مَطْبَخاً | مَطَابِخَ |
| Vocative | يا مَطْبَخُ | يا مَطَابِخُ |
Word family
Etymology
مَطْبَخ comes from the Semitic root ط-ب-خ, which means to cook. The prefix مَـ marks a place, so the word names where cooking is done. The same root gives the verb طَبَخَ, to cook, and the noun طَبّاخ, a cook. Related forms appear across the Semitic languages.
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