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مِيلاد
birth /miːˈlaːd/
nounA2#724 most common
Also: nativity, Christmas (in عيد الميلاد), birthday (in عيد ميلاد)
Example sentences
عِيدُ مِيلادٍ سَعِيد.
Happy birthday.
ما تاريخُ مِيلادِكَ؟
What is your date of birth?
نَحتَفِلُ بِعِيدِ مِيلادِ أُختي غَداً.
We are celebrating my sister's birthday tomorrow.
سُجِّلَ مِيلادُ الطِّفلِ في المُستَشفى صَباحَ اليَوم.
The child's birth was registered at the hospital this morning.
يُصادِفُ مِيلادُ المَسيحِ الخامِسَ والعِشرينَ مِن ديسمبر عِندَ الكَنيسةِ الغَربية.
The birth of Christ falls on the twenty-fifth of December in the Western church.
شَهِدَ القَرنُ العِشرونَ مِيلادَ دُوَلٍ كَثيرةٍ خَرَجَت مِن رَكامِ الإمبراطورِيّاتِ المُنهارة.
The twentieth century witnessed the birth of many states that emerged from the rubble of the collapsed empires.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مِيلادٌ | مَوالِيدُ |
| Genitive | مِيلادٍ | مَوالِيدَ |
| Accusative | مِيلاداً | مَوالِيدَ |
| Vocative | يا مِيلادُ | يا مَوالِيدُ |
Word family
وَلَدَto give birth, beget
وَلَدboy, son, childوِلادةbirth, childbirth
مَولِدbirthplace; the Prophet's birthday (Mawlid)
والِدfather, parentEtymology
Mīlād derives from the triliteral Semitic root و-ل-د (w-l-d), 'to give birth, to beget.' It is a noun of time and instance built on the pattern مِفعال. The original wāw shifted to yāʾ after the kasra, so مِوْلاد became مِيلاد. The same root produces walad 'child' and wilāda 'childbirth.'
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