countable
count
common
concrete
acreage, area, continent.
sky, sea.
I live on a small piece of land.
أنا أعيش على قطعة أرض صغيرة.
This land is very dry.
هذه الأرض جافة جدا.
Much of land in this area is used for real estate.
تستخدم الكثير من الأراضي في هذه المنطقة للعقارات.
how the land lies
حقيقة الوضع
let's keep it to ourselves until we see how the land lies
More example sentences
in the land of the living
حيا أو مستيقظا
the doctor was amazed to find me still in the land of the living
Old English lond, land, "ground, soil," also "definite portion of the earth's surface, home region of a person or a people, territory marked by political boundaries," from Proto-Germanic *landja- (source also of Old Norse, Old Frisian Dutch, Gothic land, German Land), perhaps from PIE *lendh- (2) "land, open land, heath" (source also of Old Irish land, Middle Welsh llan "an open space," Welsh llan "enclosure, church," Breton lann "heath," source of French lande; Old Church Slavonic ledina "waste land, heath," Czech lada "fallow land"). But Boutkan finds no IE etymology and suspects a substratum word in Germanic.