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ضَرَر
harm /ˈdˤa.rar/
nounB1#1516 most common
Also: damage, injury, detriment
Example sentences
هذا الدواء بلا ضَرَر.
This medicine is without harm.
التدخين فيه ضَرَر كبير.
Smoking has great harm in it.
لم يصبه أي ضَرَر في الحادث.
No harm came to him in the accident.
تسبب الفيضان في ضَرَر بالغ للمزارع.
The flood caused severe harm to the farms.
تقول القاعدة الفقهية: لا ضَرَر ولا ضِرار.
The legal maxim says: no harm and no reciprocal harm.
قدّر الخبراء حجم الضَرَر الاقتصادي الناجم عن الأزمة بمليارات الدولارات.
Experts estimated the scale of the economic harm caused by the crisis at billions of dollars.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ضَرَرٌ | أَضْرَارٌ |
| Genitive | ضَرَرٍ | أَضْرَارٍ |
| Accusative | ضَرَرًا | أَضْرَارًا |
| Vocative | يا ضَرَرُ | يا أَضْرَارُ |
Word family
ضَرَّto harm, to hurt
ضارّharmful
مُضِرّdamaging, injurious
أَضْرَارdamages, harms (plural)
ضَرورةnecessity
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root ḍ-r-r, which carries the sense of pressing, narrowing, and hurting. The same root gives the verb ضَرَّ, to harm, and the adjective ضارّ, harmful. It also stands behind ضَرورة, necessity, the idea of being pressed by need.
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