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عَجَلَة
hurry, haste /ˈʕa.dʒa.la/
nounB1#1514 most common
Also: wheel, bicycle (colloquial)
Example sentences
هَذِهِ عَجَلَة كَبِيرَة.
This is a big wheel.
أَرْكَبُ عَجَلَتِي كُلَّ صَبَاح.
I ride my bicycle every morning.
العَجَلَةُ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ وَالتَّأَنِّي مِنَ الرَّحْمَن.
Haste is from the devil, and patience is from the Merciful.
اِنْفَجَرَتْ عَجَلَةُ السَّيَّارَةِ فَجْأَةً عَلَى الطَّرِيق.
The car's tire burst suddenly on the road.
قَرَّرَ المُهَنْدِسُ تَغْيِيرَ تَصْمِيمِ العَجَلَةِ لِزِيَادَةِ سُرْعَةِ الآلَة.
The engineer decided to change the wheel's design to increase the machine's speed.
لَا تَدْفَعْكَ العَجَلَةُ إِلَى قَرَارٍ تَنْدَمُ عَلَيْهِ حِينَ تَهْدَأُ الأُمُورُ وَتَتَّضِحُ العَوَاقِب.
Do not let haste push you into a decision you will regret when things calm down and the consequences become clear.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عَجَلَةٌ | عَجَلاتٌ |
| Genitive | عَجَلَةٍ | عَجَلاتٍ |
| Accusative | عَجَلَةً | عَجَلاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا عَجَلَةُ | يا عَجَلاتُ |
Word family
عَجِلَto hurry, to hasten
عَاجِلurgent, immediate
اِسْتَعْجَلَto rush, to be in a hurry
عَجُولhasty, impatient
مُسْتَعْجِلin a hurry, rushed
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root ʿ-j-l, which carries the joined ideas of speed and rolling motion. From it Arabic forms both the abstract sense of haste and the concrete sense of a wheel, the thing that rolls fast. The same root family appears across Semitic languages in words for round objects and carts.
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