أرض

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See also: ارض

Arabic

Root
ء ر ض (ʔ-r-ḍ)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́-. Compare Hebrew אֶרֶץ (érets), Aramaic אַרְעָא (ʾarʿā) / Aramaic ܐܪܥܐ (ʔarʕā). False cognate of Dutch aarde.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔardˤ/
  • (file)

Noun

أَرْض (ʔarḍf (plural أَرَاضٍ (ʔarāḍin) or أَرَضُون (ʔaraḍūn))

  1. land, earth
  2. Earth, earth
  3. country, land
  4. ground, bottom, lowest surface
  5. agricultural ground specifically, cropland
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 22:69:
      مَنِ ٱقْتَنَى كَلْبًا لَيْسَ بِكَلْبِ صَيْدٍ وَلَا مَاشِيَةٍ وَلَا أَرْضٍ فَإِنَّهُ يَنْقُصُ مِنْ أَجْرِهِ قِيرَاطَانِ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ.
      mani qtanā kalban laysa bikalbi ṣaydin walā māšiyatin walā ʔarḍin faʔinnahū yanquṣu min ʔajrihī qīrāṭāni kulla yawmin.
      He who keeps a dog, save for a dog to hunt or to herd or one of the field – his reward is reduced by two qirat every day.
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Gulf Arabic: ارض (arḏ̣)
  • Maltese: art
  • Afar: árdi
  • Somali: arli
  • Swahili: ardhi
  • Zazaki: erd
  • Northern Kurdish: erd
  • Ottoman Turkish: ارض
  • Persian: ارض

See also

Etymology 2

Verb

أَرَّضَ (ʔarraḍa) II, non-past يُؤَرِّضُ‎ (yuʔarriḍu)

  1. (electricity) to earth, to ground
  2. to terraform
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Verb

أَرْضَ (ʔarḍa) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of رَضِيَ (raḍiya)

Verb

أُرْضَ (ʔurḍa) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past passive jussive of رَضِيَ (raḍiya)

Etymology 4

Verb

أُرْضِ (ʔurḍi) (form IV)

  1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of أَرْضَى (ʔarḍā)

Verb

أُرْضَ (ʔurḍa) (form IV)

  1. first-person singular non-past passive jussive of أَرْضَى (ʔarḍā)

Verb

أَرْضِ (ʔarḍi) (form IV)

  1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of أَرْضَى (ʔarḍā)

South Levantine Arabic

أرض فلسطين مبيّنة من رام اللهland of Palestine visible from Ramallah

Etymology

From Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ).

Pronunciation

Noun

أرض (ʔarḍf (plural أراضي (ʔarāḍi))

  1. land, terrain
  2. ground, floor
    لقيت ميّتين شيكل عالأرض.
    laʔēt miyytēn šēkel ʕal-ʔarḍ
    I found two hundred shekels on the ground.
  3. Earth