متحف (mathaf) — "museum" in Modern Standard Arabic
متحف
matHaf
museum
- Topic
- city and transportation
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- 2 of our stories
"museum" in the other dialects
متحف in a sentence
Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.
شعرت الدكتورة ليلى، المعروفة بدقتها، بومضة قلق وهي تلقي التحية على طالبها السابق، عمر، قرب معروضات المتحف الفرعونية.
Sha'arat ad-duktūrah Layla, al-ma'rūfah bi-diqqatihā, bi-wamḍat qalaqin wa hiya tulqī at-taḥīyah 'alā ṭālibihā as-sābiq, 'Umar, qurba ma'rūḍāt al-matḥaf al-fir'awnīyah.
Dr. Layla, known for her punctuality, felt a surge of anxiety as she greeted her former student, Omar, near the museum's pharaonic exhibits.
كانت عقارب الساعة تشير إلى الثامنة صباحاً بالضبط في الردهة الكبرى للمتحف الوطني للآثار بوسط القاهرة، بينما كانت تستعد لاستقباله.
Kanat 'aqarib as-sa'ah tushiru ila ath-thaminah sabahan bid-dabt fi ar-radhah al-kubra lil-matḥaf al-watani lil-athar bi-wasat al-Qahirah, baynama kanat tasta'iddu li-istiqbalihi.
The clock hands pointed to exactly eight o'clock in the grand atrium of the National Museum of Antiquities in downtown Cairo, while she was preparing to receive him.
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