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شَحْنَة
shipment /ˈʃaħ.na/
nounB1#2825 most common
Also: electric charge, cargo, load, consignment
Example sentences
وصلت شحنة جديدة إلى المتجر.
A new shipment arrived at the store.
بطارية الهاتف لديها شحنة منخفضة.
The phone's battery has a low charge.
أرسلنا شحنة من الملابس إلى اللاجئين.
We sent a shipment of clothes to the refugees.
تحمل الذرة شحنة كهربائية موجبة أو سالبة.
An atom carries a positive or negative electric charge.
احتجزت الجمارك شحنة مشبوهة من الأسلحة عند الحدود.
Customs seized a suspicious shipment of weapons at the border.
تتناسب القوة الكهربائية بين شحنتين طردياً مع حاصل ضرب مقداريهما وعكسياً مع مربع المسافة بينهما.
The electric force between two charges is directly proportional to the product of their magnitudes and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شَحْنَةٌ | شَحْنَاتٌ |
| Genitive | شَحْنَةٍ | شَحْنَاتٍ |
| Accusative | شَحْنَةً | شَحْنَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا شَحْنَةُ | يا شَحْنَاتُ |
Word family
شحن (shaḥana)to load, ship, charge (a battery)
شاحنة (shāḥina)truck, lorry
شاحن (shāḥin)charger (device, e.g. for a phone)
مشحون (mashḥūn)loaded, charged; also tense, worked up (of emotions)
Etymology
Shaḥna comes from the native Arabic triliteral root sh-ḥ-n, whose verb shaḥana means to load a vessel or vehicle, and by extension to charge a battery. The noun pattern CaCCa here marks a single instance of that action, so shaḥna originally meant one load or one act of loading. Modern usage kept both senses: a shipment of goods and an electric charge. This is a native Semitic root, not a borrowing, and it has no established Indo-European cognate.
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