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مَرْكَبَة
vehicle /ˈmar.ka.ba/
nounB1#2462 most common
Also: conveyance, mount
Example sentences
هَذِهِ مَرْكَبَتِي.
This is my vehicle.
المَرْكَبَةُ حَمْرَاءُ.
The vehicle is red.
أَوْقَفْتُ المَرْكَبَةَ أَمَامَ البَيْتِ.
I parked the vehicle in front of the house.
يَجِبُ عَلَى كُلِّ مَرْكَبَةٍ أَنْ تَحْمِلَ لَوْحَةَ تَسْجِيلٍ.
Every vehicle must carry a registration plate.
تَعَطَّلَتْ مَرْكَبَتُهُ فِي مُنْتَصَفِ الطَّرِيقِ السَّرِيعِ.
His vehicle broke down in the middle of the highway.
أَصْدَرَتِ الوِزَارَةُ لَوَائِحَ جَدِيدَةً تُنَظِّمُ تَرْخِيصَ المَرْكَبَاتِ الكَهْرَبَائِيَّةِ.
The ministry issued new regulations governing the licensing of electric vehicles.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَرْكَبَةٌ | مَرْكَبَاتٌ |
| Genitive | مَرْكَبَةٍ | مَرْكَبَاتٍ |
| Accusative | مَرْكَبَةً | مَرْكَبَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يَا مَرْكَبَةُ | يَا مَرْكَبَاتُ |
Word family
رَكِبَto ride, to board
رَاكِبrider, passenger
مَرْكَبship, vesselرُكُوبriding, mounting
مُرَكَّبcompound, composite
Etymology
Arabic is a Semitic language, not Indo-European, so it has no PIE root. مَرْكَبَة comes from the triliteral root ر-ك-ب (r-k-b), meaning to ride or mount. The noun takes the مَفْعَلَة (mafʿalah) pattern, which marks a place or means associated with the verb's action, so the word literally denotes a thing one rides in or on. The same root gives Hebrew its word for chariot or vehicle.
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