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شَحْن
charging /ˈʃaħn/
nounB1#2844 most common
Also: loading (cargo), shipping/freighting, inciting (stirring up emotions or opinion)
Example sentences
أُحِبُّ شَحْنَ هاتِفي كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ.
I like charging my phone every night.
هَل انتَهى شَحْنُ البَطّارِيَّةِ؟
Has the battery charging finished?
يَحتاجُ شَحْنُ السَّيّارَةِ الكَهْرَبائِيَّةِ إلى ساعَتَينِ.
Charging the electric car takes two hours.
تَأَخَّرَ شَحْنُ الحاوِياتِ بِسَبَبِ الازْدِحامِ في المِيناءِ.
The loading of the containers was delayed because of congestion at the port.
تُشْرِفُ الجُمارِكُ عَلى عَمَلِيّاتِ شَحْنِ البَضائِعِ وتَفْريغِها في المَوانِئِ الكُبْرى.
Customs oversees the loading and unloading of goods at the major ports.
اتُّهِمَ الإعلامُ بِشَحْنِ الرَّأْيِ العامِّ ضِدَّ الأَقَلِّيّاتِ.
The media was accused of inciting public opinion against minorities.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شَحْنٌ | |
| Genitive | شَحْنٍ | |
| Accusative | شَحْناً | |
| Vocative | يا شَحْنُ |
Word family
شَحَنَto load; to charge
شَحْنةan electric charge; a shipment or load
شاحِنcharger (the device)
شاحِنةtruck, lorry
مَشْحونloaded; charged, full of emotion
Etymology
شَحْن comes from the native Semitic triliteral root ش-ح-ن, whose core sense is to load, fill, or pack something in. Classical usage centered on loading cargo onto ships or wagons. Modern Arabic extended the same root to electrical charging as technology spread, and further to the figurative sense of stirring up emotions or opinion, as if filling people with feeling the way a ship is filled with freight.
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