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سِكَّة
road, path (also: railway track) /ˈsik.ka/
nounB2#3199 most common
Also: railway line (in سكة حديد), coin die, mint stamp (classical Arabic), furrow, plowshare (classical Arabic)
Example sentences
أنا أمشي في هذه السكة كل يوم.
I walk on this road every day.
القطار يسير على السكة الحديدية.
The train runs on the railway track.
توقف القطار لأن هناك عطلاً في السكة.
The train stopped because there was a fault in the track.
تربط سكة الحديد بين المدينتين منذ عام ١٩٠٠.
The railway has connected the two cities since 1900.
في العصور الوسطى، كانت السكة هي القالب المعدني المستخدم لضرب العملات.
In the Middle Ages, the sikka was the metal die used to stamp coins.
رغم توسع شبكة الطرق الحديثة، ظلت السكك الحديدية القديمة شاهدة على تاريخ الصناعة في المنطقة.
Despite the expansion of the modern road network, the old railway tracks remained witnesses to the region's industrial history.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | سِكَّةٌ | سِكَكٌ |
| Genitive | سِكَّةٍ | سِكَكٍ |
| Accusative | سِكَّةً | سِكَكًا |
| Vocative | يا سِكَّةُ | يا سِكَكُ |
Word family
سَكَّto mint or strike coins; to bolt/nail shut
مسكوكةminted coin, coinage
سكة حديدrailway, railroad
سِكَكroads, tracks, or dies (plural of سكة)
Etymology
Sikka comes from the Arabic root s-k-k, meaning to fit tightly or to strike firmly. In classical use it named the metal die used to stamp designs onto coins, and by extension the coin itself. Medieval trade carried the word into Italian as zecca, meaning mint, and from there into English as sequin, a term for gold coins struck in Venice. The modern sense of a fixed track or road grew from the same idea of a narrow, fixed groove.
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