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طائِرَة
airplane /ˈtˤaːʔira/
nounA1#488 most common
Also: aircraft, plane
Example sentences
هذِهِ طائِرَةٌ.
This is an airplane.
الطّائِرَةُ كَبيرَةٌ وَسَريعَةٌ.
The airplane is big and fast.
تُسافِرُ عائِلَتي إلى مِصْرَ بِالطّائِرَةِ كُلَّ صَيْفٍ.
My family travels to Egypt by airplane every summer.
أَقْلَعَتِ الطّائِرَةُ مِنَ المَطارِ بَعْدَ تَأَخُّرٍ دامَ ساعَتَيْنِ.
The airplane took off from the airport after a delay that lasted two hours.
هَبَطَتِ الطّائِرَةُ بِسَلامٍ رَغْمَ الأَحْوالِ الجَوّيَّةِ الصَّعْبَةِ.
The airplane landed safely despite the difficult weather conditions.
حَلَّقَتِ الطّائِرَةُ فَوْقَ السُّحُبِ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَشُقَّ طَريقَها نَحْوَ وِجْهَتِها النِّهائِيَّةِ.
The plane soared above the clouds before carving its path toward its final destination.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | طائِرَةٌ | طائِراتٌ |
| Genitive | طائِرَةٍ | طائِراتٍ |
| Accusative | طائِرَةً | طائِراتٍ |
| Vocative | طائِرَةُ | طائِراتُ |
Word family
Etymology
The word is the feminine active participle of طارَ, 'to fly,' built on the root ط-ي-ر. It literally means 'the flying one' (feminine). Arabic adopted it in the modern era to name the aircraft, much as the masculine طائِر long meant 'bird' or 'flying creature.'
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