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جَرَس
bell /ˈdʒa.ras/
nounB1#2674 most common
Also: chime, bell sound
Example sentences
هَذَا جَرَسٌ.
This is a bell.
صَوْتُ الجَرَسِ عَالٍ.
The sound of the bell is loud.
سَمِعْتُ الجَرَسَ فِي المَدْرَسَةِ.
I heard the bell at school.
دَقَّ الجَرَسُ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ قَبْلَ بَدْءِ الحِصَّةِ.
The bell rang three times before the class began.
عِنْدَمَا رَنَّ الجَرَسُ، هَرَعَ الطُّلَابُ إِلَى صُفُوفِهِمْ.
When the bell rang, the students rushed to their classrooms.
عَلَّقَ الفَلَّاحُ أَجْرَاسًا صَغِيرَةً فِي أَعْنَاقِ الأَغْنَامِ لِيَتَتَبَّعَ مَوَاقِعَهَا بَيْنَ التِّلَالِ.
The farmer hung small bells around the sheep's necks to track their locations among the hills.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | جَرَسٌ | أَجْرَاسٌ |
| Genitive | جَرَسٍ | أَجْرَاسٍ |
| Accusative | جَرَساً | أَجْرَاساً |
| Vocative | يَا جَرَسُ | يَا أَجْرَاسُ |
Word family
أَجْرَاسbells (plural)
أَجْرَسَto ring a bell
جَرَّسَto disgrace publicly, to defame
جَرْسa soft sound or toneEtymology
جَرَس comes from the triliteral Semitic root ج-ر-س, which relates to producing a sound or ring. The root also gives the verb أَجْرَسَ, to ring a bell, and جَرَّسَ, to publicly disgrace someone, a sense that grew out of the old practice of parading a wrongdoer through the streets while a bell was struck to draw attention. Because this is a native Semitic root rather than a borrowing, it has no Indo-European ancestry.
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