أرض

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أرض¹

  • /ʔardˤ/

Where it comes from

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

noun أَرْض · ʔarḍ · أَرَاضِي · ʔaraḍūn · الْأَرْض

  1. earth, land
  2. Earth, earth
  3. country, land
  4. ground, bottom, lowest surface
  5. agricultural ground specifically, cropland مَنِ ٱقْتَنَى كَلْبًا لَيْسَ بِكَلْبِ صَيْدٍ وَلَا مَاشِيَةٍ وَلَا أَرْضٍ فَإِنَّهُ يَنْقُصُ مِنْ أَجْرِهِ قِيرَاطَانِ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ.

    Similar: تُرْبَة

أرض²

verb أَرَّضَ · ʔarraḍa · يُؤَرِّضُ · تَأْرِيض · مُؤَرِّض

  1. to earth, to ground
  2. to terraform

In English

  • country region of land
  • ground surface of the Earth
  • earth soil
  • soil mixture of sand and organic material
  • floor bottom part of a room
  • land part of Earth that is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water
  • terrain area

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {أرض},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}

The meanings are in English: this language's words come from the English Wiktionary. From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Recordings from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own free license: Ar-أرض.ogg.