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دَرّاجَة
bicycle /darˈraːdʒa/
nounA2#1208 most common
Also: bike, cycle
Example sentences
هٰذِهِ دَرّاجَة.
This is a bicycle.
عِنْدي دَرّاجَة جَديدَة.
I have a new bicycle.
أَرْكَبُ الدَّرّاجَة إلى المَدرَسَة كُلَّ يَوم.
I ride the bicycle to school every day.
تَعَلَّمَ أَخي الصَّغيرُ رُكوبَ الدَّرّاجَةِ العامَ الماضي.
My little brother learned to ride a bicycle last year.
تُفَضِّلُ كَثيرٌ مِنَ المُدُنِ الأوروبّيّةِ الدَّرّاجاتِ على السَّيّاراتِ لِتَقليلِ التَّلَوُّث.
Many European cities prefer bicycles over cars to reduce pollution.
لَو لَم يَنفَجِر إطارُ دَرّاجَتي في مُنتَصَفِ الطَّريقِ لَوَصَلتُ في الموعِد.
If my bicycle's tire had not burst halfway down the road, I would have arrived on time.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دَرّاجَةٌ | دَرّاجاتٌ |
| Genitive | دَرّاجَةٍ | دَرّاجاتٍ |
| Accusative | دَرّاجَةً | دَرّاجاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا دَرّاجَةُ | يا دَرّاجاتُ |
Word family
دَرَجة (daraja)degree, step, grade
دَرَج (daraj)staircase
تَدَرَّجَ (tadarraja)to proceed gradually, advance by stages
مُتَدَرِّج (mutadarrij)gradual, step by step
دَرّاجَة نارِيّة (darrāja nāriyya)motorcycle
Etymology
Darrāja comes from the Semitic root d-r-j, which carries the sense of moving forward step by step. It follows the faʿʿāla pattern, used in Arabic for instruments and machines. The word was coined in the modern era to name the bicycle, the thing that rolls along the road. Standard Arabic adds nāriyya, meaning motorized, to form the word for motorcycle.
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