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مَعْهَد
institute /ˈmaʕ.had/
nounB2#3492 most common
Also: academy, training center
Example sentences
أنا أدرس في المعهد.
I study at the institute.
هل هذا المعهد كبير؟
Is this institute big?
تخرجت من معهد اللغات العربية.
I graduated from the Arabic language institute.
يوجد في المدينة معاهد كثيرة لتعليم اللغات الأجنبية.
There are many institutes in the city that teach foreign languages.
التحق بالمعهد الوطني للموسيقى ليطور موهبته.
He enrolled at the national music institute to develop his talent.
أسهمت المعاهد التقنية في تأهيل الكوادر التي تحتاجها سوق العمل الحديثة.
The technical institutes helped train the workers that the modern labor market needs.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَعْهَدٌ | مَعَاهِدُ |
| Genitive | مَعْهَدٍ | مَعَاهِدَ |
| Accusative | مَعْهَداً | مَعَاهِدَ |
| Vocative | يَا مَعْهَدُ | يَا مَعَاهِدُ |
Word family
عهد (ʿahd)covenant, pledge, era
معاهدة (muʿāhada)treaty
تعهد (taʿahhud)pledge, commitment
عهدة (ʿuhda)custody, responsibility
معاهد (maʿāhid)institutes (plural of ma'had)
Etymology
Ma'had comes from the Semitic root ʿ-h-d, which carries the sense of pledge, covenant, and entrusted knowledge. Arabic builds place nouns by adding a prefixed mim to a root, so ma'had literally denotes the place tied to that root's meaning: a place where knowledge or duty is entrusted and passed on. Over time this pattern noun narrowed to its modern sense of an institute or specialized school.
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