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تَهْرِيب
smuggling /tahˈriːb/
nounB2#3874 most common
Also: trafficking, contraband running
Example sentences
التَّهْرِيبُ مَمنوعٌ.
Smuggling is forbidden.
ضُبِطَ الرَّجُلُ بِتُهمَةِ التَّهْرِيبِ.
The man was caught on a smuggling charge.
يُحاوِلُ بَعضُ النَّاسِ تَهْرِيبَ البَضائِعِ عَبرَ الحُدودِ.
Some people try to smuggle goods across the border.
تُكافِحُ الشُّرطَةُ تَهْرِيبَ المُخَدِّراتِ في المِيناءِ.
The police fight drug smuggling at the port.
ازدادَت عَمَلِيّاتُ تَهْرِيبِ الأسلِحَةِ عَبرَ الحُدودِ الشَّرقِيَّةِ خِلالَ العامِ الماضِي.
Arms-smuggling operations increased across the eastern border over the past year.
عَلى الرَّغمِ مِنَ التَّشدِيدِ الأمنِيِّ، لا تَزالُ شَبَكاتُ تَهْرِيبِ البَشَرِ تَستَغِلُّ ثَغَراتِ القَوانِينِ الدَّولِيَّةِ.
Despite tighter security, human-smuggling networks still exploit gaps in international law.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تَهْرِيبٌ | تَهْرِيبَاتٌ |
| Genitive | تَهْرِيبٍ | تَهْرِيبَاتٍ |
| Accusative | تَهْرِيباً | تَهْرِيبَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا تَهْرِيبُ | يا تَهْرِيبَاتُ |
Word family
هَرَبَto flee, escape
هَرَّبَto smuggle
مُهَرِّبsmuggler
هارِبfugitive, runawayمَهْرَبway out, escape route
Etymology
تَهْرِيب is the verbal noun of the Form II verb هَرَّبَ, itself built from the triliteral root ه-ر-ب, which carries the sense of fleeing or escaping. Form II adds a causative meaning, so هَرَّبَ means to make something flee or slip away unseen. The verbal noun تَهْرِيب therefore denotes the act of making goods, money, or people escape detection, which in modern usage means smuggling.
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