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غِشّ

cheating /ˈɣɪʃː/

nounB2#4062 most common

Also: fraud, deception, adulteration

Example sentences

هذا غِشّ.
This is cheating.
الغِشّ في الامتحان ممنوع.
Cheating on the exam is forbidden.
اكتشف المعلم غِشّ الطالب أثناء الاختبار.
The teacher discovered the student's cheating during the test.
يُعاقَب الطلاب على الغِشّ في الجامعات بالفصل.
Students are punished for cheating in universities with expulsion.
انتشر غِشّ المنتجات الغذائية في السوق مما أثار قلق المستهلكين.
The adulteration of food products spread in the market, which worried consumers.
لا يمكن للثقة أن تُبنى في ظل انتشار الغِشّ والخداع بين الشركاء التجاريين.
Trust cannot be built while fraud and deception spread among business partners.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
NominativeغِشٌّNone
GenitiveغِشٍّNone
AccusativeغِشًّاNone
Vocativeيا غِشُّNone

Word family

غَشَّto cheat, deceive, adulterate
غَشَّاشcheater, swindler, con artist
مَغْشُوشadulterated, fake, counterfeit
غاشّdeceitful, one who cheats

Etymology

غِشّ is a masdar, a verbal noun, built from the geminate (doubled) Semitic root غ-ش-ش. The verb غَشَّ means to deceive, cheat, or mix something impure into something pure, and the noun kept that core sense of hidden adulteration. Because Arabic root system belongs to the Semitic family rather than Indo-European, no Proto-Indo-European ancestor applies here.

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