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رعية

رعية

Arabic

Noun

رَعِيَّة (raʿiyya) f (plural رَعَايَا (raʿāyā))

  1. herd, flock
  2. subjects (of a ruler)
  3. subject (of a ruler)
  4. (Christianity) parish
Declension
References
  • رعية” in J.A. Haywood and H.M. Nahmad (1965), A new Arabic grammar (second edition), London: Lund Humphries, ISBN 0-85331-585-X
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), رعي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4