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مَطْعَم
restaurant /ˈmatˤ.ʕam/
nounA2#848 most common
Also: eatery, dining place
Example sentences
هٰذَا مَطْعَمٌ.
This is a restaurant.
أُحِبُّ هٰذَا الْمَطْعَمَ كَثِيراً.
I like this restaurant a lot.
ذَهَبْنَا إِلَى مَطْعَمٍ جَدِيدٍ أَمْسِ.
We went to a new restaurant yesterday.
يَقَعُ الْمَطْعَمُ بِجَانِبِ الْبَحْرِ وَيُقَدِّمُ أَطْباقاً لَذِيذَةً.
The restaurant sits by the sea and serves delicious dishes.
حَجَزْتُ طَاوِلَةً فِي أَفْضَلِ مَطْعَمٍ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ لِنَحْتَفِلَ بِعِيدِ مِيلَادِهَا.
I booked a table at the best restaurant in the city so we could celebrate her birthday.
رَغْمَ شُهْرَةِ الْمَطْعَمِ، وَجَدْنَا أَنَّ الْخِدْمَةَ كَانَتْ بَطِيئَةً وَالْأَسْعَارَ مُبَالَغاً فِيهَا.
Despite the restaurant's fame, we found the service slow and the prices inflated.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَطْعَمٌ | مَطَاعِمُ |
| Genitive | مَطْعَمٍ | مَطَاعِمَ |
| Accusative | مَطْعَماً | مَطَاعِمَ |
| Vocative | يا مَطْعَمُ | يا مَطَاعِمُ |
Word family
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root ṭ-ʿ-m, which carries the sense of food and tasting. Arabic builds a noun of place from this root using the maf'al pattern, giving the meaning "place where one eats." The same root produces ṭa'ām, the common word for food.
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