دائرة

See also: دایره

Arabic

Root
د و ر (d-w-r)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daː.ʔi.ra/
  • (file)

Noun

دَائِرَة • (dāʔira) f (plural دَوَائِر (dawāʔir))

  1. circle
  2. calamity, misfortune, disaster
    Synonyms: نَازِلَة (nāzila), مُصِيبَة (muṣība), دَاهِيَة (dāhiya), نَائِبَة (nāʔiba)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 9:98:
      وَمِنَ الْأَعْرَابِ مَن يَتَّخِذُ مَا يُنْفِقُ مَغْرَمًا وَيَتَرَبَّصُ بِكُمُ الدَّوَائِرَ عَلَيْهِمْ دَائِرَةُ السَّوْءِ وَٱللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ
      wamina l-ʔaʕrābi man yattaḵiḏu mā yunfiqu maḡraman wayatarabbaṣu bikumu ad-dawāʔira ʕalayhim dāʔiratu as-sawʔi wal-lahu samīʕun ʕalīmun
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      "And among the Bedouins are those who take as a burden what they spend and lie in wait for you. The circle of evil is upon them. And God is All-Hearing, All-Knowing."
  3. a defeat
    Synonym: هَزِيمَة (hazīma)
  4. office, department, bureaucratic division
  5. county, daïra, a type of administrative division in Algeria, subdivision of a wilaya

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South Levantine Arabic

Root
د و ر
6 terms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daː.ʔi.re/, [ˈdæː.ʔi.rˤɑ]
  • IPA(key): /daː.ʔi.ra/, [ˈdæː.ʔi.rˤɑ]
  • (file)

Noun

دائرة • (dāʔire) f (plural دوائر (dawāʔer))

  1. Alternative form of دايرة (dāyra, circle)
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