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قَرْن
horn /ˈqarn/
nounA2#1341 most common
Also: century, generation, peak
Example sentences
لِلْبَقَرَةِ قَرْنٌ كَبِيرٌ.
The cow has a big horn.
كَسَرَ الثَّوْرُ قَرْنَهُ.
The bull broke its horn.
نَعِيشُ الآنَ فِي القَرْنِ الحَادِي وَالعِشْرِينَ.
We now live in the twenty-first century.
شَهِدَ القَرْنُ الماضِي حَرْبَيْنِ عالَمِيَّتَيْنِ.
The last century witnessed two world wars.
يَحْمِلُ الوَعْلُ قَرْنَيْنِ مُلْتَوِيَيْنِ يَسْتَخْدِمُهُما فِي القِتالِ.
The ibex carries two twisted horns that it uses in fighting.
تَعاقَبَتْ عَلى هذِهِ المَدينَةِ قُرُونٌ مِنَ الازْدِهارِ وَالانْحِطاطِ.
Centuries of prosperity and decline followed one another over this city.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قَرْنٌ | قُرُونٌ |
| Genitive | قَرْنٍ | قُرُونٍ |
| Accusative | قَرْناً | قُرُوناً |
| Vocative | يا قَرْنُ | يا قُرُونُ |
Word family
قَرِين (qarīn)companion, peer
قَرَنَ (qarana)to join, connect
قُرُون (qurūn)centuries; horns (plural)
قَرْنِيَّة (qarniyya)cornea
قِرَان (qirān)conjunction; matrimony
Etymology
قَرْن goes back to Proto-Semitic *qarn-, meaning horn. The sense widened from the animal horn to a horn-shaped peak, and then to a span of time, a generation or a century. The root ق-ر-ن also carries the idea of joining, and horns come as a matched pair.
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