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مَوْقِف
stance, position /ˈmaw.qif/
nounA2#754 most common
Also: parking lot, bus or taxi stop, situation
Example sentences
هٰذا مَوْقِفٌ كَبيرٌ.
This is a big parking lot.
سَيَّارَتي في المَوْقِفِ.
My car is in the parking lot.
ما مَوْقِفُكَ مِنَ الخِطَّةِ الجَديدَةِ؟
What is your position on the new plan?
وَجَدَ نَفْسَهُ في مَوْقِفٍ مُحْرِجٍ.
He found himself in an embarrassing situation.
اتَّخَذَتِ الدَّوْلَةُ مَوْقِفاً حازِماً مِنَ الإِرْهابِ.
The state took a firm stance against terrorism.
رَغْمَ الضُّغوطِ، لَمْ يَتَخَلَّ عَنْ مَوْقِفِهِ المَبْدَئِيِّ.
Despite the pressures, he did not abandon his principled position.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَوْقِفٌ | مَواقِفُ |
| Genitive | مَوْقِفٍ | مَواقِفَ |
| Accusative | مَوْقِفاً | مَواقِفَ |
| Vocative | مَوْقِفُ | مَواقِفُ |
Word family
وَقَفَto stand, to stop
تَوَقَّفَto halt, to come to a stop
وُقوفstanding, stopping
وَقْفreligious endowment; haltمَوْقُوفa detainee; something suspended
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic triliteral root و-ق-ف (w-q-f), meaning to stand, to stop, or to halt. It is built on the مَفْعِل (maf'il) template, which forms nouns of place or time. So the literal sense is the place or moment where one stops or stands. From that core, the word stretched to cover a physical stopping place, a parking lot or station, and an abstract place where a person stands on an issue, a stance.
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