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سارِق
thief /ˈsaː.riq/
nounB2#4118 most common
Also: robber, burglar
Example sentences
هُوَ سارِقٌ.
He is a thief.
رَأَيْتُ سارِقًا فِي الشّارِعِ.
I saw a thief in the street.
أَمْسَكَتِ الشُّرْطَةُ السّارِقَ أَمْسِ.
The police caught the thief yesterday.
كانَ السّارِقُ يَخْتَبِئُ خَلْفَ البابِ عِنْدَما وَصَلَتِ الشُّرْطَةُ.
The thief was hiding behind the door when the police arrived.
لَمْ يَتَمَكَّنِ القاضِي مِنْ إِثْباتِ أَنَّ المُتَّهَمَ هُوَ السّارِقُ الحَقِيقِيُّ.
The judge could not prove that the accused was the real thief.
عَلَى الرَّغْمِ مِنْ أَنَّ الأَدِلَّةَ كانَتْ ظَرْفِيَّةً، أَصَرَّ المُحَقِّقُ عَلَى أَنَّ سارِقَ المَجوهَراتِ كانَ يَعْمَلُ بِمُفْرَدِهِ.
Although the evidence was circumstantial, the detective insisted that the jewel thief had worked alone.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | سارقٌ | سُرَّاقٌ |
| Genitive | سارقٍ | سُرَّاقٍ |
| Accusative | سارقًا | سُرَّاقًا |
| Vocative | يا سارقُ | يا سُرَّاقُ |
Word family
سرقto steal
سرقةtheft, robbery
مسروقstolen
سارقةfemale thief
Etymology
سارِق comes from the triliteral Semitic root س-ر-ق (s-r-q), meaning to steal. The word itself is the active participle, built on the fā'il pattern that Arabic uses to name the doer of an action, so it means literally 'the one who steals.' The same root appears in Akkadian šarāqu, also meaning to steal, which points to a shared Semitic root rather than a borrowing.
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