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ناحِيَة
side, direction /naːˈħi.ja/
nounB1#1616 most common
Also: region, district, area, aspect, respect, administrative subdistrict
Example sentences
البَيْتُ في هذِهِ النّاحِيَة.
The house is on this side.
ذَهَبْنا إلى ناحِيَةِ البَحْر.
We went toward the sea.
مِنْ ناحِيَةٍ أُخْرى، هو صَديقي القَديم.
On the other hand, he is my old friend.
مِنَ النّاحِيَةِ المالِيَّة، المَشْروعُ ناجِحٌ جِدًّا.
From the financial side, the project is very successful.
تَنْتَشِرُ القُرى في كُلِّ نَواحي المُحافَظَة.
The villages are spread across every district of the province.
مِنْ ناحِيَةٍ نَظَرِيَّةٍ بَحْتَة، تَبْدو الفِكْرَةُ سَليمَةً، لكِنَّها تَنْهارُ عِنْدَ التَّطْبيق.
From a purely theoretical aspect, the idea seems sound, but it collapses in practice.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ناحِيَةٌ | نَواحٍ |
| Genitive | ناحِيَةٍ | نَواحٍ |
| Accusative | ناحِيَةً | نَواحِيَ |
| Vocative | يا ناحِيَةُ | يا نَواحي |
Word family
نَحْوdirection; grammar
نَحاto head toward
مَنْحَىcourse, tendency
اِنْتَحىto step aside, move to one side
نَواحٍsides, aspects, districts (plural)
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic triliteral root n-ḥ-w, which carries the sense of heading toward or facing a direction. The verb naḥā meant to go in a direction, and ناحِيَة is the place or side one faces. The same root gives naḥw, meaning both direction and, later, grammar.
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