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جَوْرَب
sock /dʒawˈrab/
nounB2#3088 most common
Also: stocking
Example sentences
هَذا جَوْرَبٌ أَزْرَقُ.
This is a blue sock.
أَيْنَ جَوارِبِي؟
Where are my socks?
اِشْتَرَيْتُ جَوْرَبَيْنِ جَدِيدَيْنِ.
I bought two new socks.
وَجَدَتِ الأُمُّ جَوارِبَ الأَطْفالِ تَحْتَ السَّرِيرِ.
The mother found the children's socks under the bed.
عَلِقَ خَيْطٌ صُوفِيٌّ فِي جَوْرَبِهِ فَتَتَبَّعْتُهُ حَتَّى وَجَدْتُ مَصْدَرَهُ.
A wool thread caught on his sock, so I traced it until I found where it came from.
عَلَّقَتِ الأُسْرَةُ الجَوارِبَ فَوْقَ المِدْفَأَةِ لَيْلَةَ رَأْسِ السَّنَةِ، تَقْلِيدًا اسْتَعارَتْهُ مِنَ الثَّقافَةِ الغَرْبِيَّةِ.
The family hung stockings above the fireplace on New Year's Eve, a tradition borrowed from Western culture.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | جَوْرَبٌ | جَوارِبُ |
| Genitive | جَوْرَبٍ | جَوارِبَ |
| Accusative | جَوْرَبًا | جَوارِبَ |
| Vocative | يا جَوْرَبُ | يا جَوارِبُ |
Word family
جَوْرَبsock (singular)
جَوارِبsocks (plural)
جُوَيْرِبlittle sock (diminutive)
جَوْرَبَيْنtwo socks (dual, oblique)
Etymology
Jawrab is a loanword from Persian jūrāb, meaning sock or stocking. Classical Arabic dictionaries such as Lisan al-Arab already flag it as a foreign term absorbed into Arabic. Once borrowed, it was fitted into native patterns: it took a regular plural, jawārib, on the fawāʿil template used for many quadriliteral nouns.
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