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دَجاج
chicken /daˈdʒaːdʒ/
nounB1#1402 most common
Also: poultry, hens, fowl
Example sentences
أَكَلْتُ الدَّجاجَ.
I ate the chicken.
اِشْتَرَتْ أُمِّي دَجاجةً مِن السُّوقِ.
My mother bought a chicken from the market.
يُرَبِّي جَدِّي الدَّجاجَ في المَزْرَعةِ.
My grandfather raises chickens on the farm.
لَحْمُ الدَّجاجِ أَرْخَصُ مِن لَحْمِ البَقَرِ في مُعْظَمِ المَتاجِرِ.
Chicken meat is cheaper than beef in most stores.
تُعَدُّ تَرْبِيةُ الدَّجاجِ مَصْدَرًا مُهِمًّا لِلدَّخْلِ في كَثيرٍ مِن الأَرْيافِ.
Raising chickens is an important source of income in many rural areas.
حينَ انْتَشَرَتْ إِنْفِلْوِنْزا الطُّيورِ بَيْنَ الدَّجاجِ، اضْطُرَّتِ السُّلُطاتُ إلى إِعْدامِ آلافِ الطُّيورِ لِمَنْعِ تَفَشِّي المَرَضِ.
When bird flu spread among the chickens, the authorities were forced to cull thousands of birds to stop the disease from spreading.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دَجاجٌ | دَجاجاتٌ |
| Genitive | دَجاجٍ | دَجاجاتٍ |
| Accusative | دَجاجاً | دَجاجاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا دَجاجُ | يا دَجاجاتُ |
Word family
دَجاجةa single hen or chicken
دَجاجاتchickens, the sound plural of the unit noun
لَحْم الدَّجاجchicken meat
مَزْرَعة دَجاجchicken farm
Etymology
دَجاج is the collective noun for domestic fowl in Arabic. It derives from the triliteral root د-ج-ج. Classical lexicographers tie it to the verb دَجَّ, meaning to walk slowly with short steps, which describes the bird's gait. The collective names chickens as a group, while the unit noun دَجاجة names a single hen.
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