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تَرْجَم
to translate /ˈtar.dʒa.ma/
verbB2#4110 most common
Also: to interpret, to render (into another language)
Example sentences
هُوَ يُتَرْجِمُ الكِتَابَ.
He translates the book.
تَرْجَمْتُ الرِّسَالَةَ إِلَى الإِنجِلِيزِيَّةِ.
I translated the letter into English.
هَلْ يُمْكِنُكَ أَنْ تُتَرْجِمَ هَذِهِ الجُمْلَةَ لِي؟
Can you translate this sentence for me?
تَرْجَمَتِ الشَّرِكَةُ المَوْقِعَ الإِلِكْتْرُونِيَّ إِلَى خَمْسِ لُغَاتٍ.
The company translated the website into five languages.
يُتَرْجِمُ المُتَرْجِمُونَ الأَدَبَ العَرَبِيَّ مُنْذُ عُقُودٍ لِتَقْرِيبِهِ مِنَ القُرَّاءِ الأَجَانِبِ.
Translators have been translating Arabic literature for decades to bring it closer to foreign readers.
لَمْ تُتَرْجَمْ رِوَايَتُهُ بَعْدُ إِلَى أَيِّ لُغَةٍ أُورُبِّيَّةٍ رَغْمَ شُهْرَتِهَا الوَاسِعَةِ فِي العَالَمِ العَرَبِيِّ.
His novel has not yet been translated into any European language despite its wide fame in the Arab world.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُتَرْجِمُ | تَرْجَمْتُ | سَأُتَرْجِمُ |
| 2sg | تُتَرْجِمُ | تَرْجَمْتَ | سَتُتَرْجِمُ |
| 3sg | يُتَرْجِمُ | تَرْجَمَ | سَيُتَرْجِمُ |
| 1pl | نُتَرْجِمُ | تَرْجَمْنَا | سَنُتَرْجِمُ |
| 2pl | تُتَرْجِمُونَ | تَرْجَمْتُمْ | سَتُتَرْجِمُونَ |
| 3pl | يُتَرْجِمُونَ | تَرْجَمُوا | سَيُتَرْجِمُونَ |
Word family
تَرْجَمَةtranslation (the act or the resulting text)مُتَرْجِمtranslator, interpreter
مُتَرْجَمtranslated
تُرْجُمَانinterpreter, dragoman (older, more formal term)
Etymology
Tarjama is a quadriliteral verb built on the root t-r-j-m. Arabic took it from Aramaic targem, meaning to translate or interpret, which itself goes back to Akkadian targumannu, an interpreter at a royal court. The same ancient word gave English both dragoman, a diplomatic interpreter, and targum, the term for the old Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible. Because the root is Semitic rather than Indo-European, it has no Proto-Indo-European ancestor.
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