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مِتْر
meter (metre), the unit of length /ˈmitr/
nounB1#2259 most common
Also: measuring tape, metre stick
Example sentences
هذا الحبل طوله مِتْر.
This rope is one meter long.
أريد مِتْراً من القماش.
I want a meter of cloth.
عرض الغرفة أربعة أَمْتار.
The room is four meters wide.
يبعد المتجر عن بيتي مئة مِتْر.
The store is a hundred meters from my house.
ارتفع منسوب النهر بمقدار مِتْر واحد بعد الأمطار.
The river level rose by one meter after the rains.
تشترط اللوائح ترك مسافة لا تقل عن مِتْرين بين المباني.
The regulations require a distance of no less than two meters between buildings.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مِتْرٌ | أَمْتَارٌ |
| Genitive | مِتْرٍ | أَمْتَارٍ |
| Accusative | مِتْراً | أَمْتَاراً |
| Vocative | يا مِتْرُ | يا أَمْتَارُ |
Word family
أَمْتَارmeters (plural)
كيلومترkilometer
سنتيمترcentimeter
مِتْريmetric
Etymology
The word is a modern borrowing into Arabic, taken from French "mètre". French drew it from Greek "métron", meaning a measure. The term entered Arabic in the nineteenth century as the metric system spread through the region.
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