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مِضْرَب
racket (as in a tennis racket or bat) /ˈmɪdˤ.rab/
nounB2#3263 most common
Also: bat (baseball/cricket), plectrum (for a stringed instrument), byword (in the idiom مضرب المثل)
Example sentences
هَذَا مِضْرَبٌ.
This is a racket.
اِشْتَرَيْتُ مِضْرَبَ تِنِس جَدِيدًا.
I bought a new tennis racket.
يَسْتَخْدِمُ لاعِبُ البِيسْبُول مِضْرَبًا خَشَبِيًّا.
The baseball player uses a wooden bat.
كَسَرْتُ مِضْرَبِي أَثْنَاءَ المُبَارَاةِ.
I broke my racket during the match.
يَحْتَاجُ عَازِفُ العُودِ إِلَى مِضْرَبٍ لِضَرْبِ الأَوْتَارِ.
An oud player needs a plectrum to strike the strings.
أَصْبَحَ كَرَمُهُ مِضْرَبَ المَثَلِ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ القَرْيَةِ.
His generosity became a byword among the people of the village.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مِضْرَبٌ | مَضَارِبُ |
| Genitive | مِضْرَبٍ | مَضَارِبَ |
| Accusative | مِضْرَبًا | مَضَارِبَ |
| Vocative | يَا مِضْرَبُ | يَا مَضَارِبُ |
Word family
ضَرَبَto hit, strike
ضَرْبa strike; a kind or type; multiplicationإِضْرَابlabor strike, walkout
ضَارِبstriker, batsman
مَضْرُوبstruck; the product in multiplication
Etymology
مِضْرَب comes from the Arabic root ض ر ب (ḍ-r-b), the same root behind the verb ضَرَبَ, 'to strike or hit.' It follows the مِفْعَل (mifʿal) pattern, a common template for nouns that name an instrument or place tied to an action. So مِضْرَب literally means 'the thing used for striking,' which is why it covers a tennis racket, a baseball bat, and a plectrum for a stringed instrument. Arabic is a Semitic language, not an Indo-European one, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root or Western cognates.
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