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عَظْمَة
a bone /ˈʕaðˤ.ma/
nounB2#3136 most common
Also: a bone (singular unit of عظم, bone-material), a specific bone (e.g., in anatomical names)
Example sentences
هذه عَظْمَة.
This is a bone.
وجدت عَظْمَة صغيرة في السمك.
I found a small bone in the fish.
كسرت عَظْمَة ذراعي أثناء اللعب.
I broke the bone in my arm while playing.
عَظْمَة الفخذ هي أطول عَظْمَة في جسم الإنسان.
The femur is the longest bone in the human body.
يعاني المريض من التهاب في عَظْمَة الحوض بعد السقوط.
The patient has inflammation in the pelvic bone after the fall.
أظهرت الأشعة السينية شرخًا دقيقًا في عَظْمَة الترقوة لم يكن واضحًا في الفحص الأولي.
The X-ray showed a fine crack in the collarbone that wasn't visible in the initial exam.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عَظْمَةٌ | عِظَامٌ |
| Genitive | عَظْمَةٍ | عِظَامٍ |
| Accusative | عَظْمَةً | عِظَامًا |
| Vocative | عَظْمَةُ | عِظَامُ |
Word family
عظمbone (as material, collective)
عظامbones (plural)
عظيمgreat, mighty
عظميosseous, of the bone, skeletal
تعظيمglorification, exaltation
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root ʿ-ẓ-m, which denotes bone and, by extension, physical substance and mass. عَظْمَة is the singulative form: it names one countable bone, drawn from the collective noun عظم (bone-material in general). The same root also produced words for greatness in Arabic, on the old idea that bone is the sturdy core of the body.
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