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سُرْعَة
speed /ˈsur.ʕa/
nounA1#279 most common
Also: velocity, swiftness, quickness
Example sentences
أُحِبُّ السُّرْعَةَ.
I like speed.
ما هِيَ سُرْعَةُ السَّيَّارَةِ؟
What is the speed of the car?
يَجِبُ أَنْ نُقَلِّلَ السُّرْعَةَ في المَدينةِ.
We must reduce speed in the city.
زادَتْ سُرْعَةُ الإنترنتِ بعدَ تَحديثِ الشبكةِ.
Internet speed increased after the network upgrade.
تُقاسُ سُرْعَةُ الضَّوْءِ بنحوِ ثلاثِمئةِ ألفِ كيلومترٍ في الثانيةِ.
The speed of light is measured at about three hundred thousand kilometers per second.
رغمَ سُرْعَةِ التَّغيُّراتِ الاقتصاديةِ، ظلَّت الحكومةُ بطيئةً في اتخاذِ قراراتِها.
Despite the speed of economic change, the government remained slow in making its decisions.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | سُرْعَةٌ | سُرَعٌ |
| Genitive | سُرْعَةٍ | سُرَعٍ |
| Accusative | سُرْعَةً | سُرَعاً |
| Vocative | سُرْعَةُ | سُرَعُ |
Word family
سَريعfast, quick
بِسُرْعَةquickly, fast
أَسْرَعَto hurry, hasten
سَرَّعَto accelerate, speed up
مُسْرِعspeeding, in a hurry
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic triliteral root s-r-‘, meaning to be quick or to hasten. It follows the fu‘la pattern, which builds abstract nouns, so the underlying sense is the quality of being fast. The same root gives the adjective سَريع (fast) and the verb أَسْرَعَ (to hurry).
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