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جِراحَة
surgery /dʒiˈraːħa/
nounB1#1526 most common
Also: operation, the practice of surgery, surgical procedure
Example sentences
الجِراحَة صَعبَة.
Surgery is hard.
أَحتاجُ إلى جِراحَة.
I need surgery.
نَجَحَت الجِراحَة بِحَمدِ الله.
The surgery succeeded, thank God.
دَرَسَ أَخي الجِراحَة في الجامِعَة.
My brother studied surgery at university.
بَعدَ الجِراحَة، يَحتاجُ المَريضُ إلى راحَةٍ طَويلَة.
After the surgery, the patient needs a long rest.
تَتَطَلَّبُ جِراحَةُ القَلبِ المَفتوحِ مَهارَةً عالِيَةً ودِقَّةً مُتَناهِيَة.
Open-heart surgery requires great skill and extreme precision.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | جِراحَةٌ | جِراحاتٌ |
| Genitive | جِراحَةٍ | جِراحاتٍ |
| Accusative | جِراحَةً | جِراحاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا جِراحَةُ | يا جِراحاتُ |
Word family
جَرّاحsurgeon
جُرحwound
جَرَحَto wound, to injure
جِراحيsurgical
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic triliteral root ج-ر-ح (j-r-ḥ), which means to wound or to cut. The same root gives the word for a wound, جُرح. Surgery is named for the cutting it involves.
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