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يارْدَة
yard (unit of length, about 0.91 meters) /ˈjaːr.da/
nounB2#3693 most common
Example sentences
طول الغرفة ثلاث ياردات.
The room's length is three yards.
اشتريت ياردتين من القماش.
I bought two yards of fabric.
يبعد الملعب عن البيت مسافة مئة ياردة.
The field is a hundred yards from the house.
في كرة القدم الأمريكية يجب أن يتقدم الفريق عشر ياردات للحصول على داون جديد.
In American football, the team must advance ten yards to get a new down.
حل النظام المتري محل الياردة في معظم دول العالم باستثناء الولايات المتحدة وبريطانيا.
The metric system replaced the yard in most countries except the United States and Britain.
على الرغم من أن الياردة تساوي 0.9144 متر بالضبط منذ اتفاقية عام 1959، ما زال بعض المهندسين يفضلون استخدامها في المخططات القديمة.
Although the yard has equaled exactly 0.9144 meters since the 1959 agreement, some engineers still prefer using it in old blueprints.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | يارْدَةٌ | يارْدَاتٌ |
| Genitive | يارْدَةٍ | يارْدَاتٍ |
| Accusative | يارْدَةً | يارْدَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا يارْدَةُ | يا يارْدَاتُ |
Word family
يارْدَاتyards (plural)
نصف ياردةhalf a yard
مترmeter, the metric equivalent unit
قدمfoot, a smaller imperial unit (3 feet = 1 yard)
إنشinch, another borrowed imperial unit
Etymology
يارْدَة is a direct loanword from English "yard," adapted with the Arabic feminine ending ة, a common move for imported measurement nouns. English "yard" itself comes from Old English "gierd," meaning rod or stick, and later a rod used to measure length. That Old English word traces back through Proto-Germanic to a root meaning rod or staff.
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