مدرسة

Noun of place from the verb دَرَسَ (darasa, “to learn, to study”).

• IPA^(key): /mad.ra.sa/

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مَدْرَسَة • (madrasa) f (plural مَدْرَسَات (madrasāt) or مَدَارِس (madāris))

1. school, academy

Although the word borrowed into English and some other languages such as Malay is used to refer specifically to Islamic religious schools, the original Arabic term is a generic word for any type of school.

• Gulf Arabic: مدرسة (madrisa)
• South Levantine Arabic: مدرسة (madrase)
• → Azerbaijani: mədrəsə
  • → Bashkir: мәҙрәсә (məźrəsə)
• → English: madrassah
• → Ottoman Turkish: مدرسه (medrese)
  • Turkish: medrese
• → Persian: مدرسه (madrese)
  • → Bengali: মাদ্রাসা (madraśa)
  • → Gujarati: મદરેસા (madresā)
  • → Hindustani :

  Hindi: मद्रसा (madrasā)

  Urdu: مدرسہ (madrasā)

  • → Punjabi :

  Punjabi: ਮਦਰੱਸਾ (madrassā)

  Punjabi: مدرسہ (mdrsh)

• → Swahili: madrasa
• → Tatar: мәдрәсә (mädräsä)
• → Classical Syriac: ܡܕܪܫܬܐ

Derived from the feminine active participle of the verb دَرَّسَ (darrasa, “to teach”).

• IPA^(key): /mu.dar.ri.sa/

مُدَرِّسَة • (mudarrisa) f (plural مُدَرِّسَات (mudarrisāt), masculine مُدَرِّس (mudarris))

1. female equivalent of مُدَرِّس (mudarris, “teacher”)

• مُعَلِّمَة (muʕallima)

• → Afar: mudarrisá

Derived from the feminine passive participle of the verb دَرَّسَ (darrasa, “to teach”).

• IPA^(key): /mu.dar.ra.sa/

مُدَرَّسَة • (mudarrasa) f

1. feminine singular of مُدَرَّس (mudarras, “educated”)

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “درس”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic مَدْرَسَة (madrasa).

• IPA^(key): /mad.ra.se/, [ˈmad.ra.se]
• IPA^(key): /mad.ra.sa/, [ˈmad.ra.sa]

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مدرسة • (madrase) f (plural مدارس (madāres))

1. school