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ضَرْب
striking, hitting; a blow /ˈdˤɑrb/
nounA2#772 most common
Also: a blow, a beating, multiplication (in arithmetic), a kind, a sort
Example sentences
الضَّرْبُ مَمْنُوعٌ.
Hitting is forbidden.
لَا أُحِبُّ الضَّرْبَ.
I do not like hitting.
تَعَلَّمْنَا جَدْوَلَ الضَّرْبِ فِي الْمَدْرَسَةِ.
We learned the multiplication table at school.
عَمَلِيَّةُ الضَّرْبِ أَصْعَبُ مِنَ الْجَمْعِ.
Multiplication is harder than addition.
يَخْتَصُّ الْبَنْكُ الْمَرْكَزِيُّ بِضَرْبِ الْعُمْلَةِ.
The central bank is responsible for minting the currency.
هٰذَا ضَرْبٌ مِنْ ضُرُوبِ الْجُنُونِ لَا يَقْبَلُهُ عَقْلٌ.
This is a kind of madness that no mind would accept.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ضَرْبٌ | ضُرُوبٌ |
| Genitive | ضَرْبٍ | ضُرُوبٍ |
| Accusative | ضَرْبًا | ضُرُوبًا |
| Vocative | ضَرْبُ | ضُرُوبُ |
Word family
ضَرَبَ (ḍaraba)to hit, strike
مِضْرَب (miḍrab)racket, bat
ضَرِيبَة (ḍarība)tax
إِضْرَاب (iḍrāb)labor strike
ضَارِب (ḍārib)striking; striker
Etymology
The noun is the verbal noun (maṣdar) of the verb ḍaraba, 'to strike.' It comes from the Semitic root ḍ-r-b, whose core sense is hitting or beating. From that physical meaning Arabic extended the word to abstract uses, such as multiplication in arithmetic and 'a kind of' in everyday speech.
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