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دَبّابَة
tank (armored military vehicle) /dabˈbaːba/
nounB2#3808 most common
Also: armored vehicle
Example sentences
هذِهِ دَبّابةٌ كَبيرةٌ.
This is a big tank.
رَأَيْتُ دَبّابةً في الشّارِعِ.
I saw a tank in the street.
تَتَحَرَّكُ الدَّبّابةُ بِبُطءٍ عَلى الطَّريقِ التُّرابِيِّ.
The tank moves slowly along the dirt road.
أَرْسَلَ الجَيْشُ عَشَراتِ الدَّبّاباتِ إِلى الحُدودِ الشَّرْقِيَّةِ.
The army sent dozens of tanks to the eastern border.
تَعْتَمِدُ الدَّبّاباتُ الحَديثةُ عَلى دُروعٍ مُرَكَّبةٍ لِمُقاوَمةِ الصَّواريخِ المُضادَّةِ لِلدُّروعِ.
Modern tanks rely on composite armor to resist anti-tank missiles.
لَمْ تَتَمَكَّنِ القُوّاتُ مِنِ اخْتِراقِ خُطوطِ العَدُوِّ رَغْمَ الغِطاءِ النّاريِّ الَّذي وَفَّرَتْهُ الدَّبّاباتُ المُتَقَدِّمةُ.
The forces could not break through enemy lines despite the covering fire the advancing tanks provided.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دَبّابةٌ | دَبّاباتٌ |
| Genitive | دَبّابةٍ | دَبّاباتٍ |
| Accusative | دَبّابةً | دَبّاباتٍ |
| Vocative | يا دَبّابةُ | يا دَبّاباتُ |
Word family
دَبَّto creep, crawl slowly
دَبيبcreeping motion, faint stirring or murmur
دَبّابةtank, armored vehicle
دَبّاباتtanks (plural)
Etymology
دَبّابة comes from the Arabic root د-ب-ب, tied to the verb دَبَّ, meaning to creep or crawl slowly. The pattern فَعّالة marks an instrument or machine that performs the root action intensively, so the word literally names a thing that crawls. Arabic writers extended it first to old siege engines that inched toward walls, then in the twentieth century to the armored tank, whose tracked, grinding advance matches the same image.
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