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بارِد
cold /ˈbaːrid/
adjectiveA2#893 most common
Also: cool, chilly, (figurative) dull, unfeeling
Example sentences
الماء بارِد.
The water is cold.
الجو بارِد اليوم.
The weather is cold today.
أحب شرب الشاي البارِد في الصيف.
I like drinking cold tea in summer.
كان الطقس بارِداً جداً في الشمال هذا الأسبوع.
The weather was very cold in the north this week.
استقبلني بنظرة بارِدة لم أفهم سببها.
He greeted me with a cold look whose reason I did not understand.
في السياسة، يُقال إن الحرب الباردة شكّلت ملامح القرن العشرين.
In politics, it is said that the Cold War shaped the character of the twentieth century.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بارِدٌ | بارِدونَ |
| Genitive | بارِدٍ | بارِدينَ |
| Accusative | بارِداً | بارِدينَ |
| Vocative | يا بارِدُ | يا بارِدونَ |
Word family
بَرْد (bard)cold, coldness
بَرَدَ (barada)to cool, to become cold
بُرودة (burūda)coldness, coolness
تَبريد (tabrīd)cooling, refrigeration
بَرّاد (barrād)refrigerator (Levantine)
Etymology
بارِد is the active participle of the verb بَرَدَ, to be or become cold. Both come from the Semitic root b-r-d, which carries the sense of coldness. The same root yields بَرَد, hail. Arabic is a Semitic language, not Indo-European, so it has no PIE root.
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