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مُسابَقَة
competition /muˈsaː.ba.qa/
nounB1#1807 most common
Also: contest, race, tournament
Example sentences
هٰذِهِ مُسابَقَةٌ كَبيرَةٌ.
This is a big competition.
أُحِبُّ المُسابَقاتِ الرِّياضِيَّةَ.
I love sports competitions.
فازَ أَخي في المُسابَقَةِ أَمسِ.
My brother won the competition yesterday.
تُنَظِّمُ المَدرَسَةُ مُسابَقَةً في الرِّياضِيّاتِ كُلَّ عامٍ.
The school organizes a math competition every year.
شارَكَ مِئاتُ الطُّلّابِ في المُسابَقَةِ الوَطَنِيَّةِ لِحِفظِ الشِّعرِ.
Hundreds of students took part in the national poetry-memorization contest.
لَم تَكُنِ المُسابَقَةُ مُجَرَّدَ اختِبارٍ لِلسُّرعَةِ، بَل كانَت قِياسًا لِلصَّبرِ والإرادَةِ.
The competition was not merely a test of speed, but a measure of patience and will.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مُسابَقَةٌ | مُسابَقاتٌ |
| Genitive | مُسابَقَةٍ | مُسابَقاتٍ |
| Accusative | مُسابَقَةً | مُسابَقاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا مُسابَقَةُ | يا مُسابَقاتُ |
Word family
سابَقَto race against, compete with
سَبَقَto precede, go before
مُتَسابِقcompetitor, contestant
سِباقraceسابِقprevious, formerEtymology
The word comes from the Arabic triliteral root س-ب-ق (s-b-q), which means to precede or to get ahead. It is the verbal noun of the Form III verb سابَقَ, to race against someone. The Form III pattern carries a sense of doing an action with or against another party, so the noun names the mutual act of trying to outrun one another.
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