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طَرَق
to knock (on a door) /ˈtˤaraqa/
verbB2#4206 most common
Also: to strike or hammer (e.g., metal), to broach (a topic), to arrive by night (classical)
Example sentences
طَرَقَ أَحْمَدُ البابَ.
Ahmad knocked on the door.
مَنْ يَطْرُقُ البابَ الآن؟
Who is knocking on the door now?
طَرَقْتُ بابَ جارِي لِأَطْلُبَ المُساعَدَةَ.
I knocked on my neighbor's door to ask for help.
سَمِعْنا صَوْتاً يَطْرُقُ النافِذَةَ في مُنْتَصَفِ اللَّيْلِ.
We heard something knocking on the window in the middle of the night.
طَرَقَ الحَدّادُ الحَديدَ بِالمِطْرَقَةِ حَتّى شَكَّلَهُ.
The blacksmith struck the iron with the hammer until he shaped it.
آثَرَ الخَطيبُ أَنْ يَطْرُقَ هذا المَوْضوعَ الحَسّاسَ بِحَذَرٍ شَديدٍ.
The speaker chose to broach this sensitive topic with great caution.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَطْرُقُ | طَرَقْتُ | سَأَطْرُقُ |
| 2sg | تَطْرُقُ | طَرَقْتَ | سَتَطْرُقُ |
| 3sg | يَطْرُقُ | طَرَقَ | سَيَطْرُقُ |
| 1pl | نَطْرُقُ | طَرَقْنا | سَنَطْرُقُ |
| 2pl | تَطْرُقُونَ | طَرَقْتُمْ | سَتَطْرُقُونَ |
| 3pl | يَطْرُقُونَ | طَرَقُوا | سَيَطْرُقُونَ |
Word family
طريقroad, path
طريقةmethod, manner, way
مطرقةhammer
طارقone who knocks; a common Arabic male given name
Etymology
The verb comes from the Semitic triliteral root ط-ر-ق (ṭ-r-q), whose core sense is a sharp, repeated strike. That core sense branches into knocking on a door, hammering metal, and, in older usage, arriving somewhere at night, since a night traveler was someone who had to knock to be let in. The same root gave Arabic طريق (road), because a road was originally a track beaten by repeated footfall.
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