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كارِثَة
catastrophe /ˈkaː.ri.θa/
nounB1#2181 most common
Also: disaster, calamity, cataclysm
Example sentences
هٰذِهِ كارِثَة.
This is a catastrophe.
كانَتِ الرِّحْلَة كارِثَة.
The trip was a disaster.
تَسَبَّبَ الزِّلْزالُ في كارِثَة كَبيرة.
The earthquake caused a big catastrophe.
تُحاوِلُ الحُكومَةُ تَجَنُّبَ كارِثَة بيئيَّة.
The government is trying to avoid an environmental catastrophe.
أَدَّى الإِهْمالُ المُتَكَرِّرُ إلى كارِثَةٍ كانَ يُمْكِنُ تَفاديها.
Repeated negligence led to a catastrophe that could have been avoided.
لَوْلا تَدَخُّلُ فِرَقِ الإنْقاذِ السَّريعُ لَتَحَوَّلَتِ الحادِثَةُ إلى كارِثَةٍ إنْسانِيَّةٍ حَقيقِيَّة.
Had it not been for the rescue teams' swift intervention, the incident would have turned into a real humanitarian catastrophe.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | كارِثَةٌ | كوارِثُ |
| Genitive | كارِثَةٍ | كوارِثَ |
| Accusative | كارِثَةً | كوارِثَ |
| Vocative | يا كارِثَةُ | يا كوارِثُ |
Word family
كوارِثcatastrophes, disasters (plural)
كارِثِيّcatastrophic
اكْتَرَثَto care, to mind
مُكْتَرِثcaring, heedful
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic triliteral root ك-ر-ث (k-r-th), which carries the sense of distress, grief, and affliction. It takes the active participle pattern فاعِلة, so it literally names a thing that afflicts. Over time it settled into the fixed meaning of a great disaster or calamity.
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