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مُخَدِّر
narcotic /muˈxaddir/
nounA1#527 most common
Also: anesthetic, drug, intoxicant
Example sentences
هٰذا مُخَدِّر.
This is a narcotic.
المُخَدِّرات خَطِيرة جِدًّا.
Narcotics are very dangerous.
أعطى الطبيب المريض مُخَدِّرًا موضعيًّا قبل العملية.
The doctor gave the patient a local anesthetic before the operation.
تُحارِب الشرطة تهريب المُخَدِّرات عبر الحدود.
The police fight drug smuggling across the border.
يُعَدّ تعاطي المُخَدِّرات جريمة يُعاقِب عليها القانون.
The use of narcotics is considered a crime punishable by law.
حذّر الأطباء من أنّ بعض المسكنات قد تتحوّل إلى مُخَدِّر يُسبِّب الإدمان إذا أُسِيءَ استخدامها.
Doctors warned that some painkillers can turn into an addictive narcotic if they are misused.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مُخَدِّرٌ | مُخَدِّرَاتٌ |
| Genitive | مُخَدِّرٍ | مُخَدِّرَاتٍ |
| Accusative | مُخَدِّرًا | مُخَدِّرَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا مُخَدِّرُ | يا مُخَدِّرَاتُ |
Word family
مُخَدِّراتdrugs, narcotics (plural)
خَدَّرَto anesthetize, drug, numb
تَخْدِيرanesthesia
مُخَدَّرanesthetized, drugged
خَدَرnumbness, torpor
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root خ-د-ر, which carries the sense of numbness and torpor. مُخَدِّر is the active participle of the form II verb خَدَّر, meaning to numb or to anesthetize, so it names the agent that does the numbing. The medical sense of an anesthetic and the criminal sense of a narcotic both grow from this one idea of dulling sensation. The root is Semitic, with no Indo-European source.
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