مصلحة

Arabic

Root
ص ل ح (ṣ-l-ḥ)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

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

Declension

Declension of noun مَصْلَحَة (maṣlaḥa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	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
	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
• → Uyghur: مەسلىھەت (meslihet)
• → Uzbek: maslahat

References

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