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كُوكايِين
cocaine /koːkaːˈjiːn/
nounB1#2882 most common
Example sentences
هذا كوكايين.
This is cocaine.
الكوكايين مخدر خطير.
Cocaine is a dangerous drug.
صادرت الشرطة كمية كبيرة من الكوكايين.
The police confiscated a large quantity of cocaine.
يُهرَّب الكوكايين عبر الحدود بطرق متعددة.
Cocaine is smuggled across borders in various ways.
أدى إدمانه على الكوكايين إلى انهيار حياته المهنية.
His cocaine addiction led to the collapse of his career.
تشير الدراسات إلى أن تجارة الكوكايين العالمية تدر مليارات الدولارات سنوياً على شبكات الجريمة المنظمة.
Studies indicate that the global cocaine trade generates billions of dollars a year for organized crime networks.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | كوكايينٌ | None |
| Genitive | كوكايينٍ | None |
| Accusative | كوكاييناً | None |
| Vocative | يا كوكايين | None |
Word family
كوكاcoca (the plant)
مخدراتdrugs, narcotics
إدمانaddiction
مُدمِنaddict
Etymology
The Arabic word is a direct transliteration of the English "cocaine," which itself traces back to the Quechua word "kuka" for the coca plant, combined with the chemical suffix "-ine." Arabic adopted the term wholesale in the twentieth century as global drug trafficking and medical literature spread the substance's name across languages. No native Arabic root underlies it; it functions as a fixed loanword.
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