Category: SciencePart of speech: nounDifficulty: Common

علم

/ʿilm/Roman

English meaning: Science / Knowledge

Arabic Definition

(العربية)

العلم هو منظومة معرفية تقوم على الملاحظة والتجربة والاستنتاج المنطقي لفهم الظواهر الطبيعية والإنسانية. وقد أسهم العلماء العرب إسهامات جليلة في تاريخ العلوم.

English Definition

A systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

Example

العلم نور يضيء عقول البشر.

In English: Science is a light that illuminates the minds of humanity.

Synonyms

  • معرفة
  • دراية

Antonyms / Opposites

  • جهل

Literary Heritage

العَقلُ سُلطَانٌ لَا يُعزَلُ وَالعِلمُ مِيرَاثٌ لَا يُنتَهَبُ

/Al-ʿaqlu sulṭānun lā yuʿzalu wa-al-ʿilmu mīrāthun lā yuntahab/

Reason is a sovereign that cannot be deposed and knowledge is an inheritance that cannot be plundered.

Al-Ma'arri · Poet and Philosopher · 10th–11th century CE

Risalat al-Ghufran (The Epistle of Forgiveness)

Risalat al-Ghufran, 11th century CE

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