ذراع

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Arabic

Root
ذ ر ع (ḏ r ʕ)
4 terms

Etymology

Cognate to Aramaic דְּרָעָא / ܕܪܥܐ (dərāʿā), Hebrew זְרוֹעַ (zərṓaʿ), Ugaritic 𐎏𐎗𐎓 (ḏrʿ), Ge'ez መዝራዕት (mäzraʿt), Tigre ዘራዕ (zäraʿ), መዛርዕት (mäzarəʿt), Tigrinya መዝራዕት (mäzraʿt), Soqotri direʿ, Shehri diráʿ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ði.raːʕ/
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Noun

ذِرَاع (ḏirāʕf (dual ذِرَاعَانِ (ḏirāʕāni), plural أَذْرُع (ʔaḏruʕ) or ذُرْعَان (ḏurʕān)) (countable)

  1. (anatomy) the limb of any animal, an arm or leg
    Hypernym: طَرَف (ṭaraf, an extremity, a termination)
    Coordinate terms: جَنَاح (janāḥ, a wing), زِعْنِفَة (ziʕnifa, a fin)
    لِلْأُخْطُبُوطِ ثَمَانِي أَذْرُعٍ.
    lilʔuḵṭubūṭi ṯamānī ʔaḏruʕin.
    Octopuses have eight arms.
    1. (of primates) the portion of the upper appendage from the shoulder to wrist, the arm
      Synonym: (obsolete) يَد (yad)
      فِي ذِرَاعِ ٱلْإِنْسَانِ ثَلَاثَةُ عِظَامٍ: اِثْنَتَانِ فِي ٱلسَّاعِدِ ٱسْمَاهُمَا ٱلزَّنْدُ وَٱلْكُعْبُرَةُ وَوَاحِدَةٌ فِي ٱلْعَضُدِ.
      fī ḏirāʕi l-ʔinsāni ṯalāṯatu ʕiẓāmin: iṯnatāni fī s-sāʕidi smāhumā z-zandu wal-kuʕburatu wawāḥidatun fī l-ʕaḍudi.
      There are three bones in the human arm: two in the lower arm (called the ulna and the radius) and one in the upper arm.
    2. (by extension) something resembling, likened to, or related to an arm or arms (such as a lever, a shift lever, a lever arm, a crank arm, a jib, a boom, a branch or division, power, might, influence, and so on)
  2. (anatomy, of primates) the portion of the upper appendage from the elbow to the wrist, the lower arm, the forearm
    Synonym: سَاعِد (sāʕid)
    Coordinate terms: عَضُد (ʕaḍud, the upper arm), يَد (yad, the hand), كَفّ (kaff, the palm; the hand)
  3. a cubit, especially the Arabian cubit variously standardized by place, time, and item from 25–75 cm (10 in–2 ftin).
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 69:32:
      ثُمَّ فِي سِلْسِلَةٍ ذَرْعُهَا سَبْعُونَ ذِرَاعًا فَٱسْلُكُوهُ
      ṯumma fī silsilatin ḏarʕuhā sabʕūna ḏirāʕan faslukūhu
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: driegħ
  • English: dira
  • Swahili: dhiraa

References

South Levantine Arabic

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Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Arabic ذِرَاع (ḏirāʕ).

Noun

ذراع (ḏrāʕm

  1. (formal) arm
    Synonym: إيد (ʔīd)