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شَطِيرَة
sandwich /ʃɑˈtˤiː.ra/
nounB1#2332 most common
Example sentences
أَكَلْتُ شَطِيرَةً.
I ate a sandwich.
هَذِهِ شَطِيرَةُ الجُبْنِ لَذِيذَةٌ.
This cheese sandwich is delicious.
أَحْضَرَتْ أُمِّي شَطِيرَةً إِلَى المَدْرَسَةِ.
My mom brought a sandwich to school.
اِشْتَرَيْتُ شَطِيرَةَ دَجَاجٍ مِنَ المَقْهَى القَرِيبِ.
I bought a chicken sandwich from the nearby café.
تُفَضِّلُ أُخْتِي الشَّطَائِرَ المَشْوِيَّةَ عَلَى الوَجَبَاتِ الثَّقِيلَةِ.
My sister prefers grilled sandwiches over heavy meals.
رَغْمَ بَسَاطَتِهَا، أَصْبَحَتِ الشَّطِيرَةُ رَمْزًا لِثَقَافَةِ الوَجَبَاتِ السَّرِيعَةِ فِي كَثِيرٍ مِنَ المُجْتَمَعَاتِ الحَدِيثَةِ.
Despite its simplicity, the sandwich has become a symbol of fast-food culture in many modern societies.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شَطِيرَةٌ | شَطَائِرُ |
| Genitive | شَطِيرَةٍ | شَطَائِرَ |
| Accusative | شَطِيرَةً | شَطَائِرَ |
| Vocative | شَطِيرَةُ | شَطَائِرُ |
Word family
شَطْرhalf, portion
شَطَرَto split into two halves
شَاطِرclever, sharp (colloquial)
شَطَائِرsandwiches (plural)
مُشَطَّرhalved, divided
Etymology
The word شَطِيرَة comes from the Arabic root ش-ط-ر (sh-t-r), which carries the sense of a half or a portion, as in شَطْر, meaning half. Arabic language academies in the twentieth century built شَطِيرَة on the فَعِيلَة noun pattern to name the Western sandwich, picturing bread split into two halves around a filling. It is a native Arabic coinage rather than a borrowing of the English word sandwich.
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