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تَخْم
boundary (of land or territory) /ˈtaχm/
nounB1#2712 most common
Also: border, frontier, boundary marker
Example sentences
هَذَا هُوَ التَّخْمُ بَيْنَ الْبَلَدَيْنِ.
This is the boundary between the two countries.
وَقَفَ الْحَارِسُ عِنْدَ تَخْمِ الْمَزْرَعَةِ.
The guard stood at the boundary of the farm.
تَمْتَدُّ تُخُومُ الْمَمْلَكَةِ حَتَّى الْجَبَلِ.
The kingdom's boundaries extend to the mountain.
لَا يَجُوزُ تَجَاوُزُ تَخْمِ الْأَرْضِ الْمُتَّفَقِ عَلَيْهِ.
Crossing the agreed boundary of the land is not permitted.
رَسَمَ الْمُهَنْدِسُونَ تُخُومَ الْمَدِينَةِ الْجَدِيدَةِ عَلَى الْخَرِيطَةِ.
The engineers drew the new city's boundaries on the map.
ظَلَّتْ تُخُومُ الدَّوْلَتَيْنِ مَوْضِعَ نِزَاعٍ تَارِيخِيٍّ مُنْذُ قُرُونٍ.
The boundaries of the two states remained the subject of historical dispute for centuries.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تَخْمٌ | تُخُومٌ |
| Genitive | تَخْمٍ | تُخُومٍ |
| Accusative | تَخْمًا | تُخُومًا |
| Vocative | يَا تَخْمُ | يَا تُخُومُ |
Word family
تُخُومboundaries (plural)
تَاخَمَto border on, adjoin
مُتَاخِمadjoining, neighboring
مُتَاخَمَةthe state of adjoining, bordering
Etymology
Classical Arabic تخم is widely held to be a borrowing from Aramaic, where a related word denoted the outer limit of a territory, including the fixed distance one could walk on the Sabbath. The term entered Arabic through contact between Aramaic-speaking and Arabic-speaking communities in the pre-Islamic and early Islamic periods. From this noun, Arabic later formed the verb تاخم, meaning to border on or be adjacent to, and the adjective متاخم, meaning adjoining.
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