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صَخْر
rock /ˈsˤaxr/
nounB1#1668 most common
Also: boulder, bedrock, stone (mass)
Example sentences
هٰذا صَخْرٌ كَبيرٌ.
This is a big rock.
جَلَسْنا عَلى صَخْرٍ قُرْبَ البَحْرِ.
We sat on a rock near the sea.
البَيْتُ مَبْنِيٌّ عَلى صَخْرٍ صُلْبٍ.
The house is built on solid rock.
حاوَلَ العُمّالُ كَسْرَ الصَّخْرِ بِالمَطارِقِ.
The workers tried to break the rock with hammers.
تَدَفَّقَ الماءُ مِنَ الصَّخْرِ بَعْدَ المَطَرِ الغَزيرِ.
Water flowed from the rock after the heavy rain.
ظَلَّ مَوْقِفُهُ ثابِتاً كَالصَّخْرِ رَغْمَ كُلِّ الضُّغوطِ.
His stance stayed as firm as rock despite all the pressure.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | صَخْرٌ | صُخورٌ |
| Genitive | صَخْرٍ | صُخورٍ |
| Accusative | صَخْراً | صُخوراً |
| Vocative | يا صَخْرُ | يا صُخورُ |
Word family
صَخْرةa rock, a boulder
صُخورrocks
صَخْريrocky, of rock
صَخّارstone cutter, quarryman
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root ṣ-ḫ-r, which carries the sense of hardness and solid stone. It is a collective noun: صَخْر means rock as a mass, while the single rock is صَخْرة. The same root appears across Semitic languages for stone and crag.
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