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مَعْلُومَة

piece of information /maʕˈluːma/

nounA1#461 most common

Also: fact, datum, information

Example sentences

هَذِهِ مَعْلُومَة مُهِمَّة.
This is an important piece of information.
أَعْطِنِي مَعْلُومَة عَنِ الْفُنْدُق.
Give me a piece of information about the hotel.
كُلُّ مَعْلُومَة فِي هَذَا التَّقْرِير صَحِيحَة.
Every piece of information in this report is correct.
لَمْ أَجِدْ أَيَّ مَعْلُومَة مُفِيدَة عَلَى الْإِنْتَرْنِت.
I did not find any useful piece of information on the internet.
تَحَقَّقْتُ مِنْ كُلِّ مَعْلُومَة قَبْلَ نَشْرِ الْمَقَال.
I verified every piece of information before publishing the article.
قَدْ تَكُونُ مَعْلُومَة وَاحِدَة مُضَلِّلَة كَافِيَةً لِتَغْيِيرِ مَجْرَى التَّحْقِيق.
A single misleading piece of information may be enough to change the course of the investigation.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeمَعْلُومَةٌمَعْلُومَاتٌ
Genitiveمَعْلُومَةٍمَعْلُومَاتٍ
Accusativeمَعْلُومَةًمَعْلُومَاتٍ
Vocativeيَا مَعْلُومَةُيَا مَعْلُومَاتُ

Word family

مَعْلُومَات (maʿlūmāt)information, data
عِلْم (ʿilm)knowledge, science
عَلِمَ (ʿalima)to know
مَعْلُوم (maʿlūm)known
تِكْنُولُوجِيَا الْمَعْلُومَاتinformation technology

Etymology

مَعْلُومَة is the feminine passive participle of the verb عَلِمَ, 'to know.' It literally means 'a thing that is known,' and Arabic lexicalized it as 'a piece of information' or 'a fact.' The root ع-ل-م underlies a large family of words about knowledge, from عِلْم 'science' to عَالِم 'scholar.' The plural مَعْلُومَات is the standard modern word for 'information' and 'data.'

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