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مُحَطِّم
crusher /muˈħɑtˤ.tˤɪm/
nounB1#2947 most common
Also: destroyer, breaker, heartbreaker (colloquial)
Example sentences
هُوَ مُحَطِّمُ الأَرْقَامِ.
He is the record-breaker.
اِشْتَرَتِ الشَّرِكَةُ مُحَطِّمًا جَدِيدًا لِلصُّخُورِ.
The company bought a new rock crusher.
يُعْرَفُ بِأَنَّهُ مُحَطِّمُ قُلُوبٍ فِي الْحَيِّ.
He's known as a heartbreaker in the neighborhood.
يَعْمَلُ الْمُحَطِّمُ عَلَى تَكْسِيرِ الْحِجَارَةِ الْكَبِيرَةِ إِلَى قِطَعٍ صَغِيرَةٍ.
The crusher works to break large stones into small pieces.
أَصْبَحَ اللَّاعِبُ مُحَطِّمًا لِلرَّقَمِ الْقِيَاسِيِّ الْعَالَمِيِّ فِي السِّبَاحَةِ.
The athlete became the breaker of the world record in swimming.
لَمْ يَكُنِ الْمُحَطِّمُ الْهَيْدْرُولِيكِيُّ قَادِرًا عَلَى سَحْقِ الصَّخْرِ الْبَازَلْتِيِّ الصَّلْبِ رَغْمَ قُوَّتِهِ الْهَائِلَةِ.
The hydraulic crusher could not crush the hard basalt rock despite its immense power.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مُحَطِّمٌ | مُحَطِّمُونَ |
| Genitive | مُحَطِّمٍ | مُحَطِّمِينَ |
| Accusative | مُحَطِّمًا | مُحَطِّمِينَ |
| Vocative | يَا مُحَطِّمُ | يَا مُحَطِّمُونَ |
Word family
حَطَّمَto smash, shatter
تَحْطِيمsmashing, destructionمُحَطَّمbroken, shattered
حُطَامwreckage, debris
تَحَطَّمَto be shattered, to crash
Etymology
مُحَطِّم comes from the Arabic triliteral root ح ط م (ḥ-ṭ-m), which carries the sense of breaking or smashing something into pieces. The word is the active participle of the Form II verb حَطَّمَ (ḥaṭṭama), 'to smash' or 'shatter', built by doubling the middle root letter to intensify the plain action of breaking. Adding the participle prefix مُ- turns the verb into an agent noun: 'one that smashes'. The same root also gives حُطَام (wreckage) and تَحْطِيم (destruction).
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