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آر
are (unit of area equal to 100 square meters) /ˈʔaːr/
nounB1#1984 most common
Also: 100 square meters of land
Example sentences
مِساحةُ الحديقةِ آرٌ واحدٌ.
The garden's area is one are.
اشترى أبي أرضاً مساحتُها خمسةُ آراتٍ.
My father bought land with an area of five ares.
يُعادِلُ الآرُ مئةَ مترٍ مربّعٍ.
One are equals a hundred square meters.
اشترى الفلاحُ حقلاً مساحتُه عشرةُ آراتٍ قربَ النهرِ.
The farmer bought a field of ten ares near the river.
سجّلَ المكتبُ العقاريُّ مساحةَ الأرضِ بالآراتِ لا بالأمتارِ المربّعةِ.
The land registry recorded the plot's area in ares, not in square meters.
رغمَ أنّ الآرَ وحدةٌ قديمةٌ، لا يزالُ يُستعمَلُ في قياسِ الأراضي الزراعيّةِ في بعضِ الدولِ.
Although the are is an old unit, it is still used to measure farmland in some countries.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | آرٌ | آراتٌ |
| Genitive | آرٍ | آراتٍ |
| Accusative | آراً | آراتٍ |
| Vocative | يا آرُ | يا آراتُ |
Word family
آراتares (plural)
هكتارhectare (100 ares)
سنتيارcentiare (1 square meter)
متر مربعsquare meter
Etymology
Arabic borrowed آر from the French "are", a metric unit of area equal to a hundred square meters. France defined the are in 1795 and built the word on the Latin "area", an open, level piece of ground. The term entered Arabic through land surveying and administration.
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