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مُصْطَلَح
term (a technical or specialized word) /mʊsˤˈtˤɑlɑħ/
nounB2#3647 most common
Also: terminology (in the plural), technical expression, agreed-upon designation
Example sentences
هذا مصطلح جديد.
This is a new term.
ما معنى هذا المصطلح؟
What does this term mean?
يستخدم الأطباء هذا المصطلح كثيرا.
Doctors use this term a lot.
تعلمت مصطلحات كثيرة في دورة الحاسوب.
I learned many terms in the computer course.
يصعب ترجمة هذا المصطلح القانوني إلى العربية.
It is hard to translate this legal term into Arabic.
اختلف الباحثون حول تعريف هذا المصطلح الفلسفي المعقد.
Researchers disagreed over the definition of this complex philosophical term.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مُصْطَلَحٌ | مُصْطَلَحَاتٌ |
| Genitive | مُصْطَلَحٍ | مُصْطَلَحَاتٍ |
| Accusative | مُصْطَلَحًا | مُصْطَلَحَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا مُصْطَلَحُ | يا مُصْطَلَحَاتُ |
Word family
صُلْح (ṣulḥ)peace, truce, reconciliation
أصْلَحَ (aṣlaḥa)to reform, fix, repair
إصْلاح (iṣlāḥ)reform, repair
صالِح (ṣāliḥ)good, righteous, valid
مَصْلَحَة (maṣlaḥa)interest, benefit, authority/agency
Etymology
مُصْطَلَح comes from the root ص-ل-ح (ṣ-l-ḥ), which carries the sense of being good, right, or fitting, and by extension of settling a dispute. The Form VIII verb اصْطَلَحَ (iṣṭalaḥa) means to come to terms or reach agreement, with the ت infix of that pattern assimilating to ط after the emphatic ص. مُصْطَلَح is the passive participle of this verb, so it literally denotes something that has been agreed upon, which in practice means a technical term fixed by convention among specialists.
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