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سَيّارَة
car /sajˈjaːra/
nounA1#142 most common
Also: automobile, motorcar
Example sentences
هَذِهِ سَيّارَةٌ جَديدَةٌ.
This is a new car.
أَيْنَ سَيّارَتُكَ؟
Where is your car?
ذَهَبْتُ إِلى العَمَلِ بِالسَّيّارَةِ.
I went to work by car.
اشْتَرى أَخي سَيّارَةً كَهْرَبائِيَّةً جَديدَةً الأُسْبوعَ الماضي.
My brother bought a new electric car last week.
تَوَقَّفَتِ السَّيّارَةُ فَجْأَةً في مُنْتَصَفِ الطَّريقِ بِسَبَبِ عُطْلٍ في المُحَرِّكِ.
The car stopped suddenly in the middle of the road because of an engine fault.
لَوْلا أَنَّ السَّيّارَةَ كانَتْ مُزَوَّدَةً بِأَنْظِمَةِ أَمانٍ مُتَطَوِّرَةٍ، لَكانَتْ عَواقِبُ الحادِثِ أَشَدَّ بِكَثيرٍ.
Had the car not been equipped with advanced safety systems, the consequences of the accident would have been far worse.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | سَيّارَةٌ (sayyāratun) | سَيّاراتٌ (sayyārātun) |
| Genitive | سَيّارَةٍ (sayyāratin) | سَيّاراتٍ (sayyārātin) |
| Accusative | سَيّارَةً (sayyāratan) | سَيّاراتٍ (sayyārātin) |
| Vocative | يا سَيّارَةُ (yā sayyāratu) | يا سَيّاراتُ (yā sayyārātu) |
Word family
سار (sāra)to go, walk, travel
سَير (sayr)movement, traffic
سَيّار (sayyār)mobile, itinerant, roving
مَسار (masār)path, route, track
سيرة (sīra)biography, conduct
Etymology
سَيّارة comes from the Arabic root s-y-r, which means to travel or to move. In classical Arabic the word named a caravan or a band of travelers, and it appears in that sense in the Quran. Modern Arabic reassigned it to the automobile, the machine that travels constantly. The pattern faʿʿāla marks an intensive doer, so the word reads roughly as the constant mover.
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