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دَمار
destruction /daˈmaːr/
nounB2#3677 most common
Also: devastation, ruin, annihilation
Example sentences
هذا دَمارٌ كبيرٌ.
This is great destruction.
سبَّبَ الزلزالُ دَمارًا كبيرًا.
The earthquake caused great destruction.
انتشر الدَّمارُ في جميع أنحاء المدينة بعد الحرب.
Destruction spread throughout the city after the war.
خلَّفت الحربُ وراءها دَمارًا هائلًا في البنية التحتية.
The war left behind enormous destruction to infrastructure.
يحذّر الخبراءُ من دَمارٍ بيئيٍّ لا يمكن إصلاحه إذا استمر الاحتباس الحراري.
Experts warn of irreparable environmental destruction if global warming continues.
كان دَمارُ الحضارةِ القديمة نتيجةَ سلسلةٍ من الكوارث الطبيعية والصراعات المتتالية عبر القرون.
The destruction of the ancient civilization was the result of a series of natural disasters and successive conflicts across the centuries.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دَمَارٌ | None |
| Genitive | دَمَارٍ | None |
| Accusative | دَمَارًا | None |
| Vocative | يا دَمَارُ | None |
Word family
دَمَّرَto destroy
تَدْمِيرdestruction, demolition (verbal noun of the intensive verb)مُدَمِّرdestroyer; destructive
مُدَمَّرdestroyed, wrecked
Etymology
دَمار comes from the Semitic root د-م-ر (d-m-r), which carries the sense of ruin or perishing. The word itself is a masdar, a verbal noun, built on the فَعال pattern that Arabic often uses for abstract processes. It shares its root with the verb دَمَّرَ, to destroy, and with مُدَمِّر, the word for a naval destroyer.
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