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بَرِيد
mail /baˈriːd/
nounA2#1019 most common
Also: post, postal service, courier
Example sentences
أَيْنَ مَكْتَبُ البَرِيدِ؟
Where is the post office?
وَصَلَ البَرِيدُ اليَوْمَ.
The mail arrived today.
أَرْسَلْتُ الرِّسَالَةَ بِالبَرِيدِ.
I sent the letter by mail.
بَرِيدِي الإِلِكْتُرُونِيُّ مُمْتَلِئٌ بِالرَّسَائِلِ.
My email is full of messages.
تَأَخَّرَ البَرِيدُ بِسَبَبِ سُوءِ الأَحْوَالِ الجَوِّيَّةِ.
The mail was delayed because of bad weather.
كَانَ البَرِيدُ فِي الدَّوْلَةِ العَبَّاسِيَّةِ وَسِيلَةً لِنَقْلِ الأَخْبَارِ وَالتَّجَسُّسِ.
In the Abbasid state, the barid was a means of carrying news and conducting espionage.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بَرِيدٌ | بُرُدٌ |
| Genitive | بَرِيدٍ | بُرُدٍ |
| Accusative | بَرِيداً | بُرُداً |
| Vocative | يا بَرِيدُ | يا بُرُدُ |
Word family
بَرِيدِيّpostal
بَرِيد إِلِكْتُرُونِيّemail
سَاعِي البَرِيدpostman
مَكْتَب البَرِيدpost office
Etymology
بَرِيد is a loanword, not a native Arabic noun. It traces back to Latin veredus, a post-horse in the Roman relay system, and reached Arabic through Persian and Byzantine Greek. Under the caliphates the barid became the state postal and intelligence service, a network of mounted couriers. The same Latin word, in its compound paraveredus, also gave German Pferd 'horse' and English palfrey.
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