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وَحْدَة
unit /ˈwaħda/
nounA1#636 most common
Also: unity, oneness, solitude, loneliness
Example sentences
أُحِبُّ الوَحْدَةَ.
I like being alone.
نَدْرُسُ الوَحْدَةَ الأولى.
We are studying the first unit.
تَعيشُ في وَحْدَةٍ سَكَنِيَّةٍ صَغيرَةٍ.
She lives in a small housing unit.
تَدْعو الأحزابُ إلى الوَحْدَةِ الوَطَنِيَّةِ.
The parties are calling for national unity.
المِتْرُ وَحْدَةُ قِياسِ الطّولِ في النِّظامِ المِتْرِيِّ.
The metre is the unit of length measurement in the metric system.
بَعْدَ سَنَواتٍ مِنَ الغُرْبَةِ، صارَتِ الوَحْدَةُ رَفيقَتَهُ الوَحيدَةَ.
After years away from home, solitude became his only companion.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | وَحْدَةٌ | وَحَداتٌ |
| Genitive | وَحْدَةٍ | وَحَداتٍ |
| Accusative | وَحْدَةً | وَحَداتٍ |
| Vocative | يا وَحْدَةُ | يا وَحَداتُ |
Word family
وَاحِد (wāḥid)one
وَحيد (waḥīd)sole, only, alone
اِتِّحاد (ittiḥād)union, federation
تَوْحيد (tawḥīd)unification; monotheism
مُتَّحِد (muttaḥid)united
Etymology
وَحْدة comes from the triliteral root w-ḥ-d, which carries the idea of being one. The same root gives wāḥid, the number one, and waḥīd, alone or sole. From this core the word branched into three linked senses: a single unit, the state of being made one, and the state of being on one's own.
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