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طَبْخ

cooking /ˈtˤabx/

nounB2#3300 most common

Also: cookery, the act of cooking

Example sentences

أُحِبُّ الطَّبْخَ.
I love cooking.
أُمِّي تُحِبُّ الطَّبْخَ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ.
My mother loves cooking every day.
تَعَلَّمْتُ الطَّبْخَ مِنْ جَدَّتِي.
I learned cooking from my grandmother.
يَحْتَاجُ الطَّبْخُ إِلَى صَبْرٍ وَمَهَارَةٍ.
Cooking requires patience and skill.
انْخَرَطَتْ فِي دَوْرَةِ الطَّبْخِ لِتُطَوِّرَ مَهَارَاتِهَا فِي المَطْبَخِ.
She enrolled in a cooking course to develop her kitchen skills.
يُعَدُّ الطَّبْخُ فَنًّا يَتَطَلَّبُ الإِبْدَاعَ وَالدِّقَّةَ فِي آنٍ مَعًا.
Cooking is considered an art that requires creativity and precision at once.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeطَبْخٌ
Genitiveطَبْخٍ
Accusativeطَبْخًا
Vocativeيَا طَبْخُ

Word family

طَبَخَto cook
طَبَّاخcook, chef
مَطْبَخkitchen
مَطْبُوخcooked
طَبِيخa cooked stew or dish

Etymology

Ṭabkh comes from the Semitic root ṭ-b-kh, meaning to cook or prepare food by heat. It is the maṣdar, or verbal noun, of the verb ṭabakha, to cook. Arabic is a Semitic language, not Indo-European, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root.

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