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قُرْصان
pirate /qʊrˈsˤaːn/
nounB2#3337 most common
Also: corsair, hacker (in the compound قرصان إلكتروني, cyber-pirate)
Example sentences
هذا قُرْصانٌ.
This is a pirate.
القُرْصانُ لديه سيفٌ كبيرٌ.
The pirate has a big sword.
هرب القُرْصانُ بالكنز من الجزيرة.
The pirate fled the island with the treasure.
كان القراصنة يهاجمون السفن التجارية في القرن السابع عشر.
Pirates used to attack merchant ships in the seventeenth century.
أصبح القرصان الإلكتروني تهديدًا خطيرًا لأمن الشركات الرقمي.
The cyber pirate became a serious threat to companies' digital security.
على الرغم من الأساطير الرومانسية عن القراصنة، فإن حياتهم الحقيقية كانت مليئة بالعنف والفوضى وقصر العمر.
Despite the romantic legends about pirates, their real lives were full of violence, chaos, and short lifespans.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قُرْصانٌ | قَراصِنَةٌ |
| Genitive | قُرْصانٍ | قَراصِنَةٍ |
| Accusative | قُرْصاناً | قَراصِنَةً |
| Vocative | يا قُرْصانُ | يا قَراصِنَةُ |
Word family
قراصنةpirates (plural)
قرصنةpiracy; hacking
قرصنto pirate; to hack
مقرصنpirated, cracked (of software or media)
Etymology
قرصان is a loanword. It reached Arabic through Ottoman Turkish korsan, which came from Italian corsaro, which in turn went back to Medieval Latin cursarius, a raider, built on Latin cursus, a run or course. The word traveled with the raiders themselves along Mediterranean trade and war routes during the corsair era. Later, Arabic treated the loanword as if it had a native root, and coined the verb قرصن, to pirate or to hack, from it.
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