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مِرْوَحِيَّة
helicopter /mirwaˈħijja/
nounB1#2811 most common
Also: chopper (informal), rotorcraft
Example sentences
هَذِهِ مِرْوَحِيَّة.
This is a helicopter.
المِرْوَحِيَّةُ تَطِيرُ فِي السَّمَاءِ.
The helicopter flies in the sky.
هَبَطَتِ المِرْوَحِيَّةُ عَلَى سَطْحِ المُسْتَشْفَى.
The helicopter landed on the hospital roof.
نَقَلَتِ المِرْوَحِيَّةُ العَسْكَرِيَّةُ الجَرْحَى إِلَى المُسْتَشْفَى المَيْدَانِيِّ.
The military helicopter transported the wounded to the field hospital.
حَلَّقَتْ مِرْوَحِيَّاتُ الإِنْقَاذِ فَوْقَ المِنْطَقَةِ المَنْكُوبَةِ بَحْثًا عَنْ نَاجِينَ.
Rescue helicopters circled over the disaster-stricken area searching for survivors.
عَلَى الرَّغْمِ مِنَ الظُّرُوفِ الجَوِّيَّةِ القَاسِيَةِ، تَمَكَّنَتْ طَوَاقِمُ المِرْوَحِيَّاتِ مِنْ إِجْلَاءِ العَالِقِينَ مِنْ قِمَمِ الجِبَالِ قَبْلَ حُلُولِ الظَّلَامِ.
Despite the harsh weather conditions, the helicopter crews managed to evacuate those stranded on the mountain peaks before nightfall.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مِرْوَحِيَّةٌ | مِرْوَحِيَّاتٌ |
| Genitive | مِرْوَحِيَّةٍ | مِرْوَحِيَّاتٍ |
| Accusative | مِرْوَحِيَّةً | مِرْوَحِيَّاتٍ |
| Vocative | يَا مِرْوَحِيَّةُ | يَا مِرْوَحِيَّاتُ |
Word family
مِرْوَحَةfan (hand-held or electric)
رَوَّحَto fan someone, to cool by fanning
رِيحwindرُوحspirit, soulطَائِرَةaircraft, airplane
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic root ر و ح, which carries the sense of wind and blowing. From this root Arabic forms مِرْوَحَة, an instrument noun meaning fan, the tool that stirs air. Adding the relative suffix ية produced the adjective مِرْوَحِيّ, used in the phrase طائرة مِرْوَحِيّة, literally a propeller-driven aircraft. Over time speakers dropped طائرة and kept مِرْوَحِيَّة alone as the standard word for helicopter.
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