قرية

قَرْيَة

Related to ق ر ر‎ (q-r-r). Perhaps from Proto-Afroasiatic. Immediate cognates are Hebrew קִרְיָה‎ (qiryā́, “complex, city”) and Hebrew קֶרֶת‎ (qerêt, “city, settlement”), Classical Syriac ܩܪܝܬܐ‎ (qərīṯā, “town, village”), Ugaritic 𐎖𐎗𐎚 (qrt), 𐎖𐎗𐎊𐎚 (qryt, “city, town”), Phoenician 𐤒𐤓𐤕‎ (qrt), 𐤒𐤀𐤓𐤕‎ (qʾrt, “city”), Moabite ‎𐤒𐤓‎ (qr, “wall, city”). Further relations include Kabyle iɣṛem (“city”), Oromo goorroo (“wall”), Somali guri (“dwelling, house”), Hausa gari (“town”), Kanuri gàrú (“town wall”) and Lagwan gaura (“shed”).

• IPA^(key): /qar.ja/

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  • (Hijazi) IPA^(key): [ɡar.ja], [qar.ja]

قَرْيَة • (qarya) f (plural قُرًى‎ (quran)) (countable)

1. any populated area or the community thereof

   Synonym: مِصْر‎ (miṣr, “a populated locality”)

2. an urban area or community (such as a town or a city)
3. (modern) a rural area or community (such as a village), a hamlet

   ‏هٰؤُلَاءِ الْفَلَّاحُونَ هُم مِنْ تِلْكَ الْقَرْيَةِ الْمِصْرِيَّةِ الْكَبِيرَةِ.‎‎

   hāʔulāʔi l-fallāḥūna hum min tilka l-qaryati l-miṣriyyati l-kabīrati.

   These farmers are from that big Egyptian village.

• اَلْقَرْيَتَان‎ (al-qaryatān)
• أُمّ الْقُرَى‎ (ʔumm al-qurā)

• قَرَوِيّ‎ (qarawiyy)
• قُرَوِيّ‎ (qurawiyy)

• → Hausa: àlkar̃yā̀
• → Malay: kariah
• → Ottoman Turkish: قریه‎ (karye)
  • Turkish: karye
• → Persian: قریه‎ (qarye, qariye)
• → South Levantine Arabic: قرية‎ (qarye) (semi-learned)

• بَلَد‎ (balad)
• مَدِينَة‎ (madīna)
• كَفْر‎ (kafr)
• ضَيْعَة‎ (ḍayʕa)
• بَدْو‎ (badw)
• حِلَّة‎ (ḥilla)
• رُسْتَاق‎ (rustāq)

قَرِيَّة

From the root ق ر و‎ (q-r-w).

• IPA^(key): /qa.rij.ja/

قَرِيَّة • (qariyya) f (obsolete)

1. staff, cane, pole, yard
2. yard of a ship

Semi-learned borrowing from Arabic قَرْيَة‎ (qarya).

• IPA^(key): /qar.je/, [ˈqɑr.je]
• IPA^(key): /qar.ja/, [ˈqɑr.ja]

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قرية • (qarye) f (plural قرى‎ (qura))

1. village

   Synonym: بلد‎ (balad, “town, village”)

• قروي‎ (qarawi, “villager”)

• مدينة‎ (madīne, “town, city”)