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طَماطِم
tomatoes /tˤɑˈmɑːtˤɪm/
nounB2#4312 most common
Also: tomato (used generically for the produce)
Example sentences
أَنا أُحِبُّ الطَّماطِم.
I like tomatoes.
اشْتَرَيْتُ طَماطِم مِنَ السّوقِ.
I bought tomatoes from the market.
هَذِهِ الطَّماطِم حَمْراءُ وَطازَجَةٌ.
These tomatoes are red and fresh.
تُسْتَخْدَمُ الطَّماطِم فى تَحْضيرِ السَّلَطَةِ وَالصَّلْصَةِ.
Tomatoes are used to prepare salad and sauce.
ارْتَفَعَ سِعْرُ الطَّماطِم بِسَبَبِ قِلَّةِ الإِنْتاجِ هَذا المَوْسِمَ.
The price of tomatoes rose because of low production this season.
يُعَدُّ عَصيرُ الطَّماطِم مَصْدَرًا غَنِيًّا بِفيتامينِ سي وَمُضادّاتِ الأَكْسَدَةِ.
Tomato juice is considered a rich source of vitamin C and antioxidants.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | طَماطةٌ | طَماطِمُ |
| Genitive | طَماطةٍ | طَماطِمَ |
| Accusative | طَماطةً | طَماطِمَ |
| Vocative | يا طَماطةُ | يا طَماطِمُ |
Word family
طَماطةa tomato (singular)
طَماطِمtomatoes (plural)صَلْصَةُ الطَّماطِمtomato sauce
عَصيرُ الطَّماطِمtomato juice
Etymology
The word traces back to Nahuatl tomatl, the name Aztec speakers gave the fruit before Spanish colonizers carried it to Europe as tomate. Arabic borrowed the term from Spanish or French tomate and reshaped it to fit native sound patterns, doubling the consonants to produce the quadriliteral-looking root ط م ط م. The plural طَماطِم then follows a standard Arabic broken-plural pattern, even though the word itself is foreign. Because the root is a loan rather than an inherited Semitic or Indo-European form, no deeper etymological ancestor can be traced with confidence.
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