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كَمْبيُوتِر
computer /kambiˈjuːtir/
nounB1#1787 most common
Also: PC, desktop computer
Example sentences
هٰذَا كَمْبيُوتِر.
This is a computer.
عِنْدِي كَمْبيُوتِر جَدِيد.
I have a new computer.
أَكْتُبُ رِسالَتِي عَلَى الكَمْبيُوتِر.
I write my letter on the computer.
تَوَقَّفَ الكَمْبيُوتِر عَنِ العَمَلِ فَجْأَةً.
The computer suddenly stopped working.
يَقْضِي أَخِي ساعاتٍ طَوِيلَةً أَمامَ الكَمْبيُوتِر كُلَّ يَوْمٍ.
My brother spends long hours in front of the computer every day.
لَوْلا الكَمْبيُوتِر لَما اسْتَطاعَتِ الشَّرِكَةُ مُعالَجَةَ هٰذا الكَمِّ الهائِلِ مِنَ البَياناتِ بِهٰذِهِ السُّرْعَةِ.
Were it not for the computer, the company could not have processed this huge amount of data so quickly.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | كَمْبيُوتِرٌ | كَمْبيُوتِراتٌ |
| Genitive | كَمْبيُوتِرٍ | كَمْبيُوتِراتٍ |
| Accusative | كَمْبيُوتِراً | كَمْبيُوتِراتٍ |
| Vocative | يا كَمْبيُوتِر | يا كَمْبيُوتِرات |
Word family
حاسوبcomputer (native term)
حاسِبَةcalculator
لابتوبlaptop
كَمْبيُوتِراتcomputers (plural)
Etymology
The word is a direct loan from English "computer." Arabic borrowed it as global computing technology spread in the late twentieth century. A native coinage, حاسوب (ḥāsūb), exists and is preferred in formal and standardized writing, but the transliterated form remains common in speech.
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