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مُحاصَر
besieged /muˈħaː.sˤar/
adjectiveB2#3886 most common
Also: surrounded, blockaded, cornered
Example sentences
الجيشُ مُحاصَرٌ.
The army is besieged.
المدينةُ مُحاصَرةٌ.
The city is besieged.
شعرتُ بأنني مُحاصَرٌ بالمشاكل.
I felt besieged by problems.
كان الجنودُ مُحاصَرين في القلعة لأيامٍ طويلة.
The soldiers were besieged in the fortress for many long days.
ظلّ السكانُ مُحاصَرين دون طعامٍ أو ماءٍ لأسابيع.
The residents remained besieged without food or water for weeks.
في خِضَمِّ الأزمةِ، وجد الرئيسُ نفسَه مُحاصَراً من كل الجهات السياسية.
In the middle of the crisis, the president found himself besieged from every political direction.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مُحاصَرٌ | مُحاصَرونَ |
| Genitive | مُحاصَرٍ | مُحاصَرينَ |
| Accusative | مُحاصَراً | مُحاصَرينَ |
| Vocative | يا مُحاصَرُ | يا مُحاصَرونَ |
Word family
حاصَرَto besiege, blockade
حِصارsiege, blockade
حاصِرbesieger, one who besieges
مُحاصَرةact of besieging; also the feminine adjective form
حَصْرrestriction, confinement
Etymology
مُحاصَر is the passive participle of the Form III verb حاصَرَ, meaning to besiege or blockade. Both come from the triliteral Semitic root ح-ص-ر, which carries the core idea of enclosing, confining, or cutting something off. Form III verbs in Arabic often express an action done to or against another party, which fits the siege sense: one side actively hemming in another.
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