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خَرِيطَة
map /xaˈriː.tˤa/
nounB1#1733 most common
Also: chart, plan (cartographic)
Example sentences
هَذِهِ خَرِيطَة.
This is a map.
أَيْنَ الخَرِيطَة؟
Where is the map?
اِشْتَرَيْتُ خَرِيطَة جَدِيدَة لِلْمَدِينَة.
I bought a new map of the city.
نَظَرْتُ إِلَى الخَرِيطَة لِكَيْ أَجِدَ الطَّرِيق.
I looked at the map to find the way.
تُظْهِرُ الخَرِيطَة جَمِيعَ الطُّرُقِ الرَّئِيسِيَّةِ فِي البِلَاد.
The map shows all the main roads in the country.
تَعْتَمِدُ هَذِهِ الخَرِيطَةُ الجُغْرَافِيَّةُ عَلَى صُوَرِ الأَقْمَارِ الصِّنَاعِيَّةِ لِتَحْدِيدِ الحُدُودِ بِدِقَّةٍ.
This geographic map relies on satellite images to define the borders precisely.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | خَرِيطَةٌ | خَرَائِطُ |
| Genitive | خَرِيطَةٍ | خَرَائِطَ |
| Accusative | خَرِيطَةً | خَرَائِطَ |
| Vocative | يا خَرِيطَةُ | يا خَرَائِطُ |
Word family
خَرَائِطmaps (plural)
خَرَّاطlathe operator, turner
مِخْرَطَةlathe
خَرِيطِيّcartographic
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic triliteral root خ-ر-ط, which carries the sense of stripping, shaping, or turning on a lathe. In Classical Arabic خَرِيطَة first named a leather bag or pouch, often one drawn shut with a cord. The meaning shifted toward a folded sheet and then to the modern sense of a map, the kind once carried rolled in such a pouch.
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