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خَدْش
scratch /ˈxadʃ/
nounB2#3632 most common
Also: scrape, scoring (of a surface)
Example sentences
هذا خدش صغير على يدي.
This is a small scratch on my hand.
القطة تركت خدشاً على الطاولة.
The cat left a scratch on the table.
وجدتُ خدشاً عميقاً على سيارتي الجديدة.
I found a deep scratch on my new car.
لا يمكن إصلاح هذا الخدش على الشاشة.
That scratch on the screen cannot be fixed.
ترك الحادث خدشاً في سمعته المهنية.
The incident left a scratch on his professional reputation.
رغم الخدوش الكثيرة على سطح الطاولة، ظلت قيمتها التاريخية كما هي.
Despite the many scratches on the table's surface, its historical value stayed the same.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | خَدْشٌ | خُدُوشٌ |
| Genitive | خَدْشٍ | خُدُوشٍ |
| Accusative | خَدْشًا | خُدُوشًا |
| Vocative | يَا خَدْشُ | يَا خُدُوشُ |
Word family
خَدَشَto scratch
خَادِشscratching, offensive to decency (as in 'خادش للحياء')
مَخْدُوشscratched
خُدُوشscratches (plural)
Etymology
Khadsh comes from the Semitic triliteral root kh-d-sh (خ-د-ش), which carries the core sense of scratching or scoring a surface. The word is a masdar, a verbal noun built directly on the bare root, and it names both the act of scratching and its physical result. Arabic uses the same root across a small family of related words, from the verb 'to scratch' to the participle 'scratched'.
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