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معرض

معرض

Arabic

Noun

مَعْرِض (maʿriḍ) m (plural مَعَارِض (maʿāriḍ))

  1. place where something appears or is shown
  2. showroom, stage
  3. exhibition, exposition
  4. (commerce) fair
  5. meeting
  6. event, occurrence
  7. opportunity
  8. cause, motive
  9. slave market
  10. pasturage for cattle

Declension

Etymology 2

Derived from the passive participle of the verb عَرَّضَ (ʿarraḍa, to expose, to explain), from the root ع ر ض (ʿ-r-ḍ).

Noun

مُعَرَّض (muʿarraḍ) m (plural مُعَرَّضُونَ (muʿarraḍūna))

  1. gallery

Declension

References

  • معرض” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), معرض”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), معرض”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4