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دِيك
rooster /diːk/
nounB1#2581 most common
Also: cock, cockerel
Example sentences
هٰذَا دِيكٌ.
This is a rooster.
الدِّيكُ يَصِيحُ فِي الصَّبَاحِ.
The rooster crows in the morning.
عِنْدَنَا دِيكٌ وَدَجَاجَتَانِ فِي الْحَدِيقَةِ.
We have a rooster and two hens in the yard.
أَيْقَظَنِي صِيَاحُ الدِّيكِ قَبْلَ شُرُوقِ الشَّمْسِ.
The rooster's crowing woke me before sunrise.
يُقَالُ إِنَّ الدِّيكَ يَشْعُرُ بِاقْتِرَابِ الْفَجْرِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَظْهَرَ أَيُّ ضَوْءٍ.
It is said that the rooster senses the approach of dawn before any light appears.
فِي بَعْضِ الْقُرَى مَا زَالَ الْفَلَّاحُونَ يَعْتَمِدُونَ عَلَى صِيَاحِ الدِّيكِ بَدَلًا مِنَ السَّاعَةِ الْمُنَبِّهَةِ لِتَنْظِيمِ يَوْمِهِمْ.
In some villages, farmers still rely on the rooster's crow instead of an alarm clock to organize their day.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دِيكٌ | دُيُوكٌ |
| Genitive | دِيكٍ | دُيُوكٍ |
| Accusative | دِيكًا | دُيُوكًا |
| Vocative | يَا دِيكُ | يَا دُيُوكُ |
Word family
دَجَاجَةhen
دَجَاجchicken (collective)
دِيك رُومِيturkey (literally 'Roman rooster')
صِيَاحcrowing, cry
Etymology
دِيك comes from a common Semitic root for the domestic rooster, built on the consonants د-ي-ك. Comparative Semitic dictionaries list related forms in Aramaic and Syriac, which points to a shared ancient word rather than a later borrowing into Arabic. The root stayed narrow: it produced few other derived words beyond the bird itself and compounds naming other fowl.
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