Learn Arabic › B2 › واقِعَة
واقِعَة
event /ˈwaː.qi.ʕa/
nounB2#4248 most common
Also: incident, occurrence, battle
Example sentences
هذه واقعة مهمة.
This is an important event.
حدثت واقعة غريبة في السوق.
A strange incident happened in the market.
سمعتُ عن هذه الواقعة من صديقي.
I heard about this incident from my friend.
تحقق الشرطة في تفاصيل الواقعة.
The police are investigating the details of the incident.
كانت الواقعة نقطة تحول في تاريخ المدينة.
The event was a turning point in the city's history.
وثّق المؤرخ وقائع الحرب بدقة متناهية.
The historian recorded the events of the war with extreme precision.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | واقِعَةٌ | وَقَائِعُ |
| Genitive | واقِعَةٍ | وَقَائِعَ |
| Accusative | واقِعَةً | وَقَائِعَ |
| Vocative | يا واقِعَةُ | يا وَقَائِعُ |
Word family
وَقَعَto fall; to happen, occur
واقِعreality; the actual, present situationمَوْقِعlocation, site, positionتَوَقُّعexpectation
وُقُوعoccurrence, the act of happeningEtymology
Wāqiʿah comes from the Arabic triliteral root w-q-ʕ, whose base verb waqaʿa means "to fall" or "to happen." Wāqiʿah is the feminine active participle of that verb, so it literally names "the thing that occurs." Over time it settled into the everyday sense of an event or incident, and it also serves as the title of the 56th chapter of the Quran, which describes the Day of Judgment as an event that will surely occur. Arabic is a Semitic language, so it has no Indo-European root to trace here.
Learn Arabic the way that sticks.
Every word here is a full Polylex card with native audio and spaced repetition, so 4,080 words actually move into long-term memory.
Start free
Every word here is a full Polylex card with native audio and spaced repetition, so 4,080 words actually move into long-term memory.
Start free