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تَحْمِيل

downloading /taħˈmiːl/

nounB2#3054 most common

Also: loading, uploading, shipment

Example sentences

أَنَا أُرِيدُ تَحْمِيلَ الصُّورَةِ.
I want to download the picture.
اضْغَطْ هُنَا لِتَحْمِيلِ التَّطْبِيقِ.
Click here to download the app.
يَسْتَغْرِقُ تَحْمِيلُ المِلَفِّ خَمْسَ دَقَائِقَ.
Downloading the file takes five minutes.
تَمَّ تَحْمِيلُ البَضَائِعِ عَلَى الشَّاحِنَةِ صَبَاحًا.
The goods were loaded onto the truck this morning.
يُتِيحُ المَوْقِعُ تَحْمِيلَ المِلَفَّاتِ بِسُرْعَةٍ عَالِيَةٍ دُونَ انْقِطَاعٍ.
The website allows fast file downloads without interruption.
أَدَّى تَحْمِيلُ السَّفِينَةِ فَوْقَ طَاقَتِهَا إِلَى غَرَقِهَا قُرْبَ المِينَاءِ.
Overloading the ship beyond its capacity caused it to sink near the port.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeتَحْمِيلٌتَحْمِيلَاتٌ
Genitiveتَحْمِيلٍتَحْمِيلَاتٍ
Accusativeتَحْمِيلًاتَحْمِيلَاتٍ
Vocativeيَا تَحْمِيلُيَا تَحْمِيلَاتُ

Word family

حَمَّلَto load, to burden, to download
حِمْلa load, a burden
حَامِلcarrying; a carrier; pregnant
مَحْمُولcarried; mobile, portable
تَحَمَّلَto bear, endure, put up with

Etymology

تَحْمِيل is the verbal noun of حَمَّلَ, the Form II (doubled, causative) pattern built on the Semitic root ح م ل, which carries the core sense of bearing or carrying a weight. The doubling of the middle root letter turns the basic idea of carrying into a causative one: making something be loaded or carried. Modern Arabic then extended this physical sense of loading cargo to the digital sense of loading data, which is why the same word now means both loading a truck and downloading a file.

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