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مَمْلَكَة
kingdom /ˈmam.la.ka/
nounB1#2158 most common
Also: realm, monarchy (as a state), domain
Example sentences
هٰذِهِ مَمْلَكَةٌ كَبِيرَةٌ.
This is a big kingdom.
المَغْرِبُ مَمْلَكَةٌ في شَمالِ أفريقيا.
Morocco is a kingdom in North Africa.
تَحكُمُ المَلِكَةُ مَمْلَكَتَها بِحِكْمَةٍ.
The queen rules her kingdom with wisdom.
امتَدَّتِ المَمْلَكَةُ مِنَ البَحرِ إلى الجِبالِ.
The kingdom stretched from the sea to the mountains.
سَقَطَتِ المَمْلَكَةُ القَديمةُ بَعدَ حَربٍ طَويلةٍ أنهَكَت جَيشَها.
The old kingdom fell after a long war that exhausted its army.
لَم تَكُنِ المَمْلَكَةُ يَومًا مُجَرَّدَ حُدودٍ على خَريطةٍ، بَل فِكرةً عاشَت في وِجدانِ شَعبِها.
The kingdom was never merely borders on a map, but an idea that lived in the conscience of its people.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَمْلَكَةٌ | مَمَالِكُ |
| Genitive | مَمْلَكَةٍ | مَمَالِكَ |
| Accusative | مَمْلَكَةً | مَمَالِكَ |
| Vocative | يا مَمْلَكَةُ | يا مَمَالِكُ |
Word family
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root m-l-k, which carries the sense of owning and ruling. It is formed on the maf'ala pattern, which builds nouns of place and abstract nouns from a root. The same root gives malik (king) and mulk (dominion), so a mamlaka is the domain a king holds.
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