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ضَرائِب
taxes /dˤaˈraːʔɪb/
nounB1#2414 most common
Also: duties, levies, tariffs
Example sentences
الضَّرائِبُ مُرتَفِعَةٌ.
Taxes are high.
يَجِبُ أَن نَدفَعَ الضَّرائِبَ كُلَّ عامٍ.
We must pay taxes every year.
تَرفَعُ الحُكومَةُ الضَّرائِبَ عَلى السَّجائِرِ.
The government is raising taxes on cigarettes.
تَشتَكي الشَّرِكاتُ الصَّغيرَةُ مِن ارتِفاعِ الضَّرائِبِ.
Small companies complain about rising taxes.
أَقَرَّ البَرلَمانُ قانوناً جَديداً لِتَخفيضِ الضَّرائِبِ عَلى الدَّخلِ.
Parliament passed a new law to lower income taxes.
يَرى الاقتِصادِيّونَ أَنَّ إصلاحَ نِظامِ الضَّرائِبِ ضَروريٌّ لِتَحفيزِ الاستِثمارِ وتَقليصِ العَجزِ في المِيزانِيَّةِ.
Economists believe that reforming the tax system is necessary to spur investment and shrink the budget deficit.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ضَريبَةٌ | ضَرائِبُ |
| Genitive | ضَريبَةٍ | ضَرائِبَ |
| Accusative | ضَريبَةً | ضَرائِبَ |
| Vocative | يا ضَريبَةُ | يا ضَرائِبُ |
Word family
ضَريبة (ḍarība)a tax (singular)
ضَرَبَ (ḍaraba)to hit, strike
إضراب (iḍrāb)a labor strike
مِضرَب (miḍrab)bat, racket
تَضارُب (taḍārub)conflict, clash
Etymology
Ḍarā'ib is the broken plural of ḍarība, a tax. Both words come from the Arabic root ḍ-r-b, whose core verb ḍaraba means to strike or hit. The sense shift is direct: a tax is an amount struck or imposed on a person by authority, much as English speakers still speak of a government levy being imposed or struck.
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