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وَرْشَة
workshop /ˈwarʃa/
nounB2#3868 most common
Also: training workshop, repair shop, atelier
Example sentences
أَنَا فِي الوَرْشَة.
I am at the workshop.
أَبِي يَعْمَلُ فِي وَرْشَةٍ لِتَصْلِيحِ السَّيَّارَاتِ.
My father works in a car repair workshop.
سَأَحْضُرُ وَرْشَةَ عَمَلٍ عَنِ الكِتَابَةِ الإِبْدَاعِيَّةِ غَدًا.
I will attend a creative writing workshop tomorrow.
نَظَّمَتِ الجَامِعَةُ وَرْشَةَ عَمَلٍ حَوْلَ الذَّكَاءِ الاصْطِنَاعِيِّ لِلطُّلَّابِ الجُدُدِ.
The university organized a workshop on artificial intelligence for new students.
تَحْتَاجُ السَّيَّارَةُ إِلَى إِصْلَاحٍ دَقِيقٍ، لِذَا أَخَذْتُهَا إِلَى وَرْشَةٍ مُتَخَصِّصَةٍ فِي مُحَرِّكَاتِ الدِّيزِل.
The car needs precise repair, so I took it to a workshop specialized in diesel engines.
عَقَدَتِ المُنَظَّمَةُ سِلْسِلَةً مِنَ الوَرَشَاتِ التَّدْرِيبِيَّةِ لِتَأْهِيلِ الكَوَادِرِ المَحَلِّيَّةِ قَبْلَ إِطْلَاقِ المَشْرُوعِ.
The organization held a series of training workshops to prepare local staff before launching the project.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | وَرْشَةٌ | وَرَشَاتٌ |
| Genitive | وَرْشَةٍ | وَرَشَاتٍ |
| Accusative | وَرْشَةً | وَرَشَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يَا وَرْشَةُ | يَا وَرَشَاتُ |
Word family
وَرْشَة عَمَلwork workshop, training seminar
وَرَشَاتworkshops (sound plural)
وِرَشworkshops (broken plural)
وَرْشَجِيworkshop worker, mechanic (colloquial)
Etymology
وَرْشَة denotes a place of manual or mechanical work, and in the twentieth century it also took on the sense of a training seminar. The root و-ر-ش has no clear classical Arabic meaning of 'labor', so most reference works treat the word as a borrowing, though they disagree on the donor language. No Indo-European ancestor for the word is established, so none is claimed here. The seminar sense spread across the Arab world through education and NGO usage in the late twentieth century.
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