قرية

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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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 Standard Arabic) 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)

• → Andalusian Arabic: القريّة (al-queríah)
  • → Catalan: alqueria
  • → Spanish: alquería
• → Hausa: àlkar̃yā̀
• → Malay: kariah
• → Swahili: karia
• → 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)

• IPA^(key): /qa.rij.ja/

قَرِيَّة • (qariyya) f (obsolete)

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

Arabic قَرْيَة (qarya).

• IPA^(key): /ɡar.ja/, [qar.ja]

قرية • (garya) f (plural قرى (gura))

1. village

• قروي (garawi, “villager”)

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”)