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مَوْطِن
homeland /ˈmaw.tˤin/
nounB2#3370 most common
Also: habitat, home ground, birthplace
Example sentences
هذا موطني.
This is my homeland.
دمشق موطن جدي.
Damascus is my grandfather's homeland.
يعيش الباندا في موطنه الأصلي في الصين.
The panda lives in its natural habitat in China.
تُعد هذه الجزيرة موطناً لأنواع نادرة من الطيور.
This island is home to rare species of birds.
أصبحت المدينة موطناً لملايين المهاجرين على مر العصور.
The city became home to millions of immigrants over the ages.
تحرص الشعوب على صون مواطنها الأصلية من الاندثار في خضم التحولات الحضارية.
Peoples strive to preserve their original homelands from disappearing amid sweeping historical change.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَوْطِنٌ | مَواطِنُ |
| Genitive | مَوْطِنٍ | مَواطِنَ |
| Accusative | مَوْطِناً | مَواطِنَ |
| Vocative | مَوْطِنُ | مَواطِنُ |
Word family
وَطَنhomeland, nationمُواطِنcitizen
اِسْتيطانsettlement, colonization
تَوْطينnaturalization, localization
وَطَنِيّnational, patrioticEtymology
مَوْطِن comes from the Semitic root و-ط-ن (w-ṭ-n), which carries the sense of settling or dwelling in a place. The م- prefix turns the root into an ism makān, a noun of place, so مَوْطِن literally names the place where settling happens. The same root gives Arabic its everyday word for homeland, وَطَن, and later coinages for citizen and naturalization.
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