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عاهِرَة
prostitute /ˈʕaːhira/
nounA1#581 most common
Also: whore, harlot, adulteress
Example sentences
هِيَ عاهِرَة.
She is a prostitute.
لا تُصَدِّقْها، إنّها عاهِرَة.
Do not believe her; she is a whore.
اتَّهَمَها جارُها بأنّها عاهِرَة.
Her neighbor accused her of being a prostitute.
في الرواية، تتحوّل البطلة من فتاة فقيرة إلى عاهِرَة في المدينة الكبيرة.
In the novel, the heroine turns from a poor girl into a prostitute in the big city.
رفضت المحكمة وصفَها بأنّها عاهِرَة لعدم وجود دليل.
The court rejected describing her as a prostitute for lack of evidence.
رأى الكاتب أنّ المجتمع هو الذي يصنع العاهِرَة، لا أن تُولَد المرأةُ كذلك.
The writer held that society is what makes the prostitute, not that a woman is born one.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عاهِرَةٌ | عاهِراتٌ |
| Genitive | عاهِرَةٍ | عاهِراتٍ |
| Accusative | عاهِرَةً | عاهِراتٍ |
| Vocative | يا عاهِرَةُ | يا عاهِراتُ |
Word family
عاهِرmale fornicator, adulterer
عَهَرَto fornicate, commit adultery
عَهْرfornication, adultery
عُهْرlewdness, debauchery
Etymology
عاهِرَة is the feminine active participle of the verb عَهَرَ, 'to fornicate or commit adultery.' It comes from the triliteral root ع-ه-ر, which carries the sense of illicit sexual conduct. The masculine form عاهِر appears in early Islamic legal tradition, including the hadith that gives the child to the marriage bed and the fornicator 'the stone.' Arabic is a Semitic language, so the word has no Indo-European root.
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