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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
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | طَبْخٌ | |
| Genitive | طَبْخٍ | |
| Accusative | طَبْخًا | |
| Vocative | يَا طَبْخُ |
Word family
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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