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ثُقْب
hole (a small perforation or opening) /ˈθuqb/
nounB2#4335 most common
Also: perforation, cavity, aperture
Example sentences
فِي البَابِ ثُقْبٌ صَغِيرٌ.
There is a small hole in the door.
نَظَرْتُ مِنَ الثُّقْبِ.
I looked through the hole.
حَفَرَ الفَأْرُ ثُقْبًا فِي الجِدَارِ.
The mouse dug a hole in the wall.
تَسَرَّبَ الماءُ مِنْ ثُقْبٍ صَغِيرٍ فِي الأُنبُوبِ.
Water leaked from a small hole in the pipe.
اكْتَشَفَ العُلَمَاءُ ثُقْبًا أَسْوَدَ ضَخْمًا فِي مَرْكَزِ المَجَرَّةِ.
Scientists discovered a huge black hole at the center of the galaxy.
أَدَّى ثُقْبٌ صَغِيرٌ فِي طَبَقَةِ الأُوزُونِ إِلَى تَفَاقُمِ ظَاهِرَةِ الاحْتِبَاسِ الحَرَارِيِّ.
A small hole in the ozone layer led to the worsening of global warming.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ثُقْبٌ | ثُقُوبٌ |
| Genitive | ثُقْبٍ | ثُقُوبٍ |
| Accusative | ثُقْبًا | ثُقُوبًا |
| Vocative | يَا ثُقْبُ | يَا ثُقُوبُ |
Word family
ثَقَبَto pierce, bore, perforate
ثَاقِبpiercing; sharp, insightful
مِثْقَبdrill, awl, borer
ثُقُوبholes (plural of thuqb)
تَثْقِيبperforation, act of piercing
Etymology
Thuqb comes from the Arabic triliteral root th-q-b, which carries the sense of piercing or boring through something. The noun thuqb names the result of that action: the opening left behind. The same root gives Arabic its everyday verb for piercing and its word for a drill.
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