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عَرَبَة
cart /ˈʕa.ra.ba/
nounB1#1873 most common
Also: wagon, carriage, vehicle (colloquial: car)
Example sentences
هَذِهِ عَرَبَةٌ صَغِيرَةٌ.
This is a small cart.
يَجُرُّ الحِصَانُ العَرَبَةَ.
The horse pulls the cart.
وَضَعَ الفَلَّاحُ الخُضَارَ فِي العَرَبَةِ.
The farmer put the vegetables in the cart.
تَوَقَّفَتِ العَرَبَةُ أَمَامَ البَيْتِ فَحَمَلْنَا الصَّنَادِيقَ.
The cart stopped in front of the house, so we carried in the boxes.
كَانَتِ العَرَبَاتُ تَنْقُلُ البَضَائِعَ عَبْرَ الصَّحْرَاءِ قَبْلَ ظُهُورِ السِّكَكِ الحَدِيدِيَّةِ.
Carts used to move goods across the desert before railways appeared.
لَوْلَا أَنَّ عَجَلَةَ العَرَبَةِ انْكَسَرَتْ فِي مُنْتَصَفِ الطَّرِيقِ لَوَصَلْنَا قَبْلَ الغُرُوبِ.
Had the cart's wheel not broken midway, we would have arrived before sunset.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عَرَبَةٌ | عَرَبَاتٌ |
| Genitive | عَرَبَةٍ | عَرَبَاتٍ |
| Accusative | عَرَبَةً | عَرَبَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يَا عَرَبَةُ | يَا عَرَبَاتُ |
Word family
عَرَبَاتcarts, wagons (plural)
عَرَبَجِيّcart driver, coachman
عَرَبِيَّةcar, vehicle (colloquial)
عَجَلَةwheelEtymology
The word comes from the Arabic root ع-ر-ب, with the feminine ending ة marking a single object. It names a wheeled vehicle drawn by an animal or pushed by hand. In several modern dialects, notably Egyptian, the sense widened to mean any car or automobile.
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