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مِنْطَقَة
area /ˈmin.tˤa.qa/
nounA1#452 most common
Also: region, zone, district
Example sentences
هَذِهِ مِنْطَقَة جَمِيلَة.
This is a beautiful area.
أَسْكُنُ فِي مِنْطَقَة هَادِئَة.
I live in a quiet area.
تَقَعُ المَدْرَسَةُ فِي مِنْطَقَةٍ قَرِيبَةٍ مِنَ البَيْتِ.
The school is in an area near the house.
تُعَانِي هَذِهِ المِنْطَقَةُ مِنْ نَقْصٍ فِي المِيَاهِ.
This region suffers from a shortage of water.
تُعَدُّ هَذِهِ المِنْطَقَةُ مِنْ أَكْثَرِ المَنَاطِقِ ازْدِحَامًا فِي العَاصِمَةِ.
This area is considered one of the most crowded areas in the capital.
شَهِدَتِ المِنْطَقَةُ الحُدُودِيَّةُ تَوَتُّرًا مُتَزَايِدًا دَفَعَ السُّكَّانَ إِلَى النُّزُوحِ.
The border region saw rising tension that pushed residents to flee.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مِنْطَقَةٌ | مَنَاطِقُ |
| Genitive | مِنْطَقَةٍ | مَنَاطِقَ |
| Accusative | مِنْطَقَةً | مَنَاطِقَ |
| Vocative | يَا مِنْطَقَةُ | يَا مَنَاطِقُ |
Word family
مَنَاطِقareas, regions (plural)
نِطَاقscope, range, belt
نَطَقَto speak, pronounce
مَنْطِقlogic; reasoningنُطْقpronunciation, speech
Etymology
مِنْطَقَة comes from the Arabic root n-ṭ-q. It is formed on the mifʿala pattern, which marks a place or instrument, and it derives from نِطَاق, meaning belt or girdle. A region was pictured as a band that encircles, like a belt around the waist, so the word widened to mean zone, area, and district.
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