مصلحة

Arabic

Root
ص ل ح (ṣ l ḥ)
20 terms

Pronunciation

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Noun

مَصْلَحَة • (maṣlaḥa) f (plural مَصَالِح (maṣāliḥ))

verbal noun of صَلَحَ (ṣalaḥa) (form I)
anything promoting, salutary, advantageous
advantage
business, undertaking, enterprise
benevolence
(in the plural) weal, welfare (of a country, etc.)
interest

Declension

Declension of noun مَصْلَحَة (maṣlaḥa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَصْلَحَة maṣlaḥa	الْمَصْلَحَة al-maṣlaḥa	مَصْلَحَة maṣlaḥat
Nominative	مَصْلَحَةٌ maṣlaḥatun	الْمَصْلَحَةُ al-maṣlaḥatu	مَصْلَحَةُ maṣlaḥatu
Accusative	مَصْلَحَةً maṣlaḥatan	الْمَصْلَحَةَ al-maṣlaḥata	مَصْلَحَةَ maṣlaḥata
Genitive	مَصْلَحَةٍ maṣlaḥatin	الْمَصْلَحَةِ al-maṣlaḥati	مَصْلَحَةِ maṣlaḥati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَصْلَحَتَيْن maṣlaḥatayn	الْمَصْلَحَتَيْن al-maṣlaḥatayn	مَصْلَحَتَيْ maṣlaḥatay
Nominative	مَصْلَحَتَانِ maṣlaḥatāni	الْمَصْلَحَتَانِ al-maṣlaḥatāni	مَصْلَحَتَا maṣlaḥatā
Accusative	مَصْلَحَتَيْنِ maṣlaḥatayni	الْمَصْلَحَتَيْنِ al-maṣlaḥatayni	مَصْلَحَتَيْ maṣlaḥatay
Genitive	مَصْلَحَتَيْنِ maṣlaḥatayni	الْمَصْلَحَتَيْنِ al-maṣlaḥatayni	مَصْلَحَتَيْ maṣlaḥatay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
Plural	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَصَالِح maṣāliḥ	الْمَصَالِح al-maṣāliḥ	مَصَالِح maṣāliḥ
Nominative	مَصَالِحُ maṣāliḥu	الْمَصَالِحُ al-maṣāliḥu	مَصَالِحُ maṣāliḥu
Accusative	مَصَالِحَ maṣāliḥa	الْمَصَالِحَ al-maṣāliḥa	مَصَالِحَ maṣāliḥa
Genitive	مَصَالِحَ maṣāliḥa	الْمَصَالِحِ al-maṣāliḥi	مَصَالِحِ maṣāliḥi

Descendants

Maltese: mselħa
→ Azerbaijani: məsləhət
→ Fula: maslaha
→ Kazakh: мәслихат (mäslixat)
→ Malay: maslahat
→ Ottoman Turkish: مصلحت
- Turkish: maslahat
- → Armenian: մասլահաթ (maslahatʻ)
→ Persian: مصلحت
- → Urdu: مصالحہ
  - → Ushojo: مصالحہ
→ Swahili: maslahi
→ Turkmen: maslahat
→ Uyghur: مەسلىھەت (meslihet)
→ Uzbek: maslahat

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مصلحة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen