| Baal {prop} (deity) | :: بعل {m} /baʿl/ |
| Baalbek {prop} (a city in Lebanon) | :: بعلبك /baʿlabakk/ |
| Baalbeki {adj} (of or pertaining to Baalbek) | :: بعلبكي /baʿlabakkiyy/ |
| baba ganoush {n} (Lebanese dish) | :: بابا غنوج {m} /bābā ḡannūj/ |
| Baba Yaga {prop} (hag who flies through the air in a mortar) | :: بابا ياجا {f} /bābā yāgā/, بابا ياجا {f} /bābā yājā/, بابا ياغا {f} /bābā yāgā/, بابا ياغا {f} /bābā yāḡā/ |
| babby {n} (baby) SEE: baby | :: |
| babe {n} (baby or infant) SEE: baby | :: |
| babe {n} (darling) SEE: baby | :: |
| Bab el Mandeb {prop} (strait) | :: باب المندب /bāb al-mandab/ |
| babirusa {n} (a member of the genus Babyrousa) | :: بابيروسة {f} /bābīrūsa/ |
| baboon {n} (primate) | :: بابون {m} /bābūn/ |
| babouche {n} (Turkish or oriental slipper) | :: بابوش {m} /bābūš/ |
| babushka {n} (matryoshka) SEE: Russian doll | :: |
| baby {n} (very young human being) | :: رضيع {m} /raḍīʿ/ |
| baby {n} (term of endearment) | :: حبيبي {m} /ḥabībī/ |
| baby {n} (form of address to a man or a woman considered to be attractive) | :: حبيبي {m} /ḥabībī/ , عزيزي {m} /ʿazīzī/ |
| baby buggy {n} (a wheeled chair for the transport of a baby) SEE: stroller | :: |
| baby carriage {n} (cart that is designed for moving a baby around in a lying position) SEE: pram | :: |
| Babylon {prop} (capital of Babylonia) | :: بابل {m} /bābilu/ |
| Babylonia {prop} (ancient region and empire of southern Mesopotamia) | :: بابل {f} /bābil/ |
| baby shower {n} (party) | :: حفل قدوم المولود المنتظر {m} /ḥafl qudūm al-mawlūd al-muntaẓir/ |
| babysit {v} (To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money) | :: يجالس |
| babysitter {n} (baby or child caretaker) | :: حاضنة {f} /ḥāḍina/, مربية {f} /murabbiya/ |
| baby tooth {n} (tooth which will be replaced) SEE: milk tooth | :: |
| baby walker {n} (baby walker, see also: walking frame) | :: مشاية {f} /maššāya/ |
| baccalaureate {n} (qualification awarded after passing the baccalaureate exam) | :: بكالوريوس {m} /bakālūriyūs/ |
| baccalaureate {n} (bachelor's degree) SEE: bachelor's degree | :: |
| Bach {prop} (German composer) | :: باخ /bāḵ/ |
| bachelor {n} (unmarried man) | :: أعزب {m} /ʾaʿzab/, عازب {m} /ʿāzib/ |
| bachelor's degree {n} (first or lowest academic degree) | :: بكالوريا /bakālōriyā/ |
| bacillus {n} (any bacteria in the genus Bacillus) | :: عصوية {f} /ʿaṣawiyya/ |
| back {n} (the rear of body) | :: ظهر {m} /ẓahr/ |
| back and forth {adv} (from one place to another and back again) | :: ذهابا وإيابا /ḏahāban wa-ʾiyāban/ |
| backbite {v} (to make defamatory statements about another) | :: اغتاب /iḡtāba/ |
| backbiting {n} (the act of slandering a person without that person's knowledge) | :: غيبة {f} /ḡība/ |
| backbone {n} (series of vertebrae that encloses the spinal cord) | :: عمود فقري {m} /ʿamūd faqriyy/ |
| backbone {n} (any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure) | :: دعامة {f} /diʿāma/ |
| backbone {n} (courage, fortitude, or strength) | :: شجاعة /šajāʿa/ |
| backbone {n} (backbone) SEE: spine | :: |
| backgammon {n} (board game) | :: طاولة {f} /ṭāwila/ |
| backpack {n} (worn on a person's back, e.g., for hiking) | :: حقيبة ظهر {f} /ḥaqībat ẓahr/ |
| backpackers {n} (hostel) SEE: hostel | :: |
| backward {adj} (undeveloped) | :: متخلف {m} /mutaḵallif/ |
| backwardness {n} (state of being backward) | :: تخلف {m} /taḵalluf/ |
| bacon {n} (cut of meat) | :: باكون {m} /bākūn/, بيكون {m} /baykūn/ |
| bacteria {n} (bacteria) | :: بكتيريا {f} /baktīriyā/, جرثومة {f} /jurṯūma/ |
| bacterium {n} (single celled organism with no nucleus or organelles) | :: جرثومة {f} /jurṯūma/ |
| Bactrian camel {n} (Camelus bactrianus) | :: فالج {m} /fālij/, جمل ذو سنامين {m} /jamal ḏū sanāmayn/ |
| bad {adj} (unfavorable; negative) | :: سيئ /sayyiʾ/ |
| bad {adj} (evil, wicked) | :: شرير |
| bad {adj} | :: سيئ /sayyiʾ/ |
| bad {adj} (spoilt, rotten, overripe) SEE: spoilt | :: |
| Badajoz {prop} (province) | :: بطليوس /baṭalyaws/ |
| Badajoz {prop} (city) | :: بطليوس /baṭalyaws/ |
| bad breath {n} (unpleasant breath) | :: بخر {m} /baḵar/ |
| Baden {prop} (former state) | :: بادن /bādin/ |
| badge {n} (distinctive mark) | :: شارة {f} /šāra/ |
| badger {v} (fart) SEE: fart | :: |
| badger {n} (mammal) | :: غرير {m} /ḡurayr/ |
| badlands {n} (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks) | :: وعر {m} /waʿr/ |
| bad luck {n} (misfortune) | :: سوء الحظ /sūʾu l-ḥaẓẓ/ |
| badminton {n} (a racquet sport) | :: بدمينتون {m} /badmintūn/, تنس الريشة {m} /tenis ar-rīša/ |
| badness {n} (the quality of being bad) | :: سوء {m} /sūʾ/ |
| badware {n} (malware) SEE: malware | :: |
| bag {n} (flexible container) | :: حقيبة {f} /ḥaqība/, جيب {m} /jayb/, كيس {m} {f} /kīs/ |
| bag {n} (suitcase) SEE: suitcase | :: |
| bag {n} (backpack) SEE: backpack | :: |
| bagel {n} (toroidal bread roll that is boiled and then baked) | :: كعك {m} /kaʿk/ |
| baggage {n} (luggage) SEE: luggage | :: |
| Baghdad {prop} (city) | :: بغداد {f} /baḡdād/ |
| Baghdadi {n} (person from Baghdad) | :: بغدادي {m} /baḡdādiyy/, بغدادية {f} /baḡdādiyya/ |
| Baghdadian {adj} (Baghdadi) SEE: Baghdadi | :: |
| Baghdadian {n} (Baghdadi) SEE: Baghdadi | :: |
| bagpipe {n} (bagpipes) SEE: bagpipes | :: |
| bagpipes {n} (musical wind instrument) | :: مزمار القربة {m} /mizmār al-qirba/, قربة {f} /qirba/ |
| baguette {n} (a variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape) | :: باغيت |
| Bahá'í {adj} (pertaining to Bahá'ís or beliefs held in the Bahá'í Faith) | :: بهائي /bahāʾiyy/ |
| Baha {prop} (given name) | :: بهاء /bahāʾ/ |
| Bahamas {prop} (country in the Caribbean) | :: البهاما {f} /al-bahāmā/ |
| Bahá'í Faith {prop} (religion) | :: البهائية {f} /al-bahāʾiyya/ |
| Bahrain {prop} (country in the Middle East) | :: البحرين {f} /al-baḥrayn/ |
| Bahraini {n} (a person from Bahrain or of Bahraini descent) | :: بحريني {m} /baḥrayniyy/, بحرينية {f} /baḥrayniyya/ |
| Bahraini {adj} (of, from, or pertaining to Bahrain or the Bahraini people) | :: بحريني /baḥrayniyy/ |
| baht {n} (unit of currency) | :: بات {m} /bāt/ |
| Baikal {prop} (a large lake in Russia) | :: بايكال {m} /baykāl/ |
| Baikonur {prop} (city and cosmodrome in Kazakhstan) | :: بيكونور {m} /baykunūr/ |
| bailiff {n} (equivalent officers of the court in foreign contexts) | :: مأمور {m} /maʾmūr/ |
| bait {n} (substance used in catching fish) | :: طعم /ṭuʿm/ |
| bake {v} (to cook in an oven) | :: خبز /ḵabaza/ |
| baker {n} (person who bakes and sells bread, etc) | :: خباز {m} /ḵabbāz/, فران {m} /farrān/ |
| Baker {prop} (Occupational surname) | :: الخباز /al-ḵabbāz/ |
| baker's {n} (bakery) SEE: bakery | :: |
| baker's dozen {n} (cousin) SEE: cousin | :: |
| bakery {n} (a shop in which bread and such is baked and sold) | :: مخبز {m} /maḵbiz/ |
| baking {n} (action in which something is baked) | :: خبز {m} /ḵabz/ |
| baklava {n} (sweet pastry) | :: بقلاوة {f} /baqlāwa/ |
| baksheesh {n} (bribe or tip) | :: بقشيش {m} /baqšīš/ |
| Baku {prop} (the capital city of Azerbaijan) | :: باكو {f} /bākū/ |
| balaclava {n} (headgear) | :: نسيج صوفي |
| balalaika {n} (Russian instrument) | :: بالالايكا {f} /bālālāykā/ |
| balance {n} (equilibrium) | :: توازن {m} /tawāzun/ |
| balance {n} (scales) | :: ميزان {m} /mīzān/ |
| balance {n} (accounting: list of credits and debits) | :: رصيد {m} /raṣīd/ |
| balance {n} (astrology: Libra) SEE: Libra | :: |
| balcony {n} (structure extending from a building) | :: شرفة {f} /šurfa/ |
| bald {adj} (having no hair) | :: أقرع {m} /ʾaqraʿ/ |
| baldmoney {n} (Meum athamanticum) | :: مو {m} /mū/, شبت بري {m} /šibitt barriyy/ |
| baldness {n} (condition or state of being (or becoming) bald) | :: صلع {m} /ṣalaʿ/ |
| Balearic Islands {prop} (group of Mediterranean islands) | :: جزر البليار {f-p} /juzur al-baliyār/ |
| Bali {prop} (island of Indonesia) | :: بالي {m} /bālī/ |
| Balkan {adj} (of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula) | :: بلقاني {m} /balqānī/ |
| Balkanian {adj} (Balkan) SEE: Balkan | :: |
| Balkanic {adj} (of or relating to Balkan peninsula) SEE: Balkan | :: |
| Balkanization {n} (fragmentation of a region into several small states) | :: بلقنة {f} /balqana/ |
| Balkan Peninsula {prop} (peninsula in southeastern Europe, see also: Balkans) | :: شبه جزيرة البلقان {f} /šibh jazīra(t) al-balqān/ |
| Balkans {prop} (geographical region in the southeast of Europe, see also: Balkan Peninsula) | :: البلقان {f} /al-balqān/ |
| ball {n} (solid or hollow sphere) | :: كرة {f} /kura/, كبة {f} /kubba/ |
| ball {n} (object, generally spherical, used for playing games) | :: كرة {f} /kura/ |
| ball {n} (anatomy: ball of a foot) | :: ضرة {f} /ḍarra/ |
| ballad {n} (narrative poem) | :: بالاد {m} /bālād/ |
| ballerina {n} (female ballet dancer) | :: باليرينا {f} /bālīrīnā/, راقصة باليه {f} /rāqiṣat bālīh/ |
| ballet {n} (form of dance) | :: باليه {m} /bālēh/ |
| ballista {n} (crossbow-like military engine for hurling large missiles) | :: عرادة /ʿarrāda/ |
| ballistic vest {n} (bulletproof vest) SEE: bulletproof vest | :: |
| balloon {n} (slang: woman’s breast) SEE: boob | :: |
| balloon {n} (inflatable and buoyant object) | :: بالون {m} /bālōn/ |
| balloon {n} (child’s toy) | :: بالون {m} /bālōn/ |
| balloon {n} (inflatable object to transport people through the air) | :: منطاد {m} /munṭād/ |
| balloonfish {n} (blowfish) SEE: blowfish | :: |
| ballpark {adj} (approximate) | :: تقريبي {m} /taqriybiyyun/, تقريبية {f} /taqriybiyyatun/, تقديري {m} /taqdiyriyyun/, تقديرية {f} /taqdiyriyyatun/ |
| ball pen {n} (ballpoint pen) SEE: ballpoint pen | :: |
| ballpoint pen {n} (pen) | :: قلم حبر {m} /qalam ḥibr/ |
| ballroom {n} (large room used for dancing) | :: مرقص {m} /marqaṣ/ |
| balls {n} (follow the translations in the entry "ball") SEE: ball | :: |
| balm {n} (sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants) SEE: balsam | :: |
| balm {n} (plant or tree yielding such substance) SEE: balsam | :: |
| balm {n} (soothing lotion) SEE: balsam | :: |
| balm {n} (figurative: something soothing) SEE: balsam | :: |
| Balochi {prop} (language) | :: بلوشية {f} /balūšiyya/ |
| balsam {n} (soothing ointment) | :: بلسم {m} /balsam/ |
| Baltic {prop} (Baltic Sea) SEE: Baltic Sea | :: |
| Baltic Sea {prop} (a sea) | :: بحر البلطيق {m} /baḥr al-balṭīq/ |
| Baltimore {prop} (city in central Maryland, USA) | :: بلتمور /baltimōr/ |
| Bamako {prop} (capital of Mali) | :: باماكو {f} /bamakū/ |
| bamboo {n} (plant) | :: خيزران {m} /ḵayzarān/, خيزران {m} /ḵayzurān/ |
| ban {n} (prohibition) | :: حظر {m} /ḥaẓr/, منع {m} /manʿ/ |
| banana {n} (fruit) | :: موزة {f} /mawza/, موز {m} /mawz/ |
| banana peel {n} (outermost layer of the banana) | :: قشر الموز {f} /qišr al-mawz/ |
| banana republic {n} (country) | :: جمهورية الموز {f} /jumhūriyyat al-mawzi/ |
| banana skin {n} (banana skin) SEE: banana peel | :: |
| band {n} (group of musicians) | :: فرقة {f} /firqa/ |
| bandage {n} (medical binding) | :: ضمادة {f} /ḍimāda/, عصابة {f} /ʿiṣāba/ |
| bandage {n} (adhesive bandage) SEE: band-aid | :: |
| band-aid {n} (adhesive bandage) | :: ضمادة {f} /ḍimāda/ |
| Bandar Seri Begawan {prop} (capital of Brunei) | :: بندر سري بكاوان {f} /bandar sirī bikawān/ |
| bandicoot {n} (small Australian marsupial with a long snout) | :: بندقوط {m} /bandaqūṭ/ |
| bandit {n} (one who robs others) | :: سارق {m} /sāriq/ |
| Bandung {prop} (capital city of West Java Province) | :: باندونج {m} /bāndūnj/, باندونج {m} /bandung/ |
| bandura {n} (Ukrainian plucked stringed instrument) | :: باندورا |
| bane {v} (to (kill by) poison) SEE: poison | :: |
| bane {n} (killer) SEE: killer | :: |
| Bangalore {prop} (state capital of Karnataka, India) | :: بنغالور {m} /banḡalūr/ |
| banger {n} (woman's breast) SEE: breast | :: |
| Bangkok {prop} (the capital of Thailand) | :: بانكوك {f} /bankok/ |
| Bangla {prop} (Bengali) SEE: Bengali | :: |
| Bangladesh {prop} (country) | :: بنغلاديش {f} /banḡladēš/ |
| Bangladeshi {adj} (of, from, or pertaining to Bangladesh) | :: بنغلاديشي /banḡladēšiyy/ |
| Bangui {prop} (capital of the Central African Republic) | :: بانغي {m} /bānḡī/ |
| banish {v} (to send someone away and forbid that person from returning) | :: طرد /ṭarada/ |
| banister {n} (the handrail on the side of a staircase) | :: درابزون {m} /darābzūn/ |
| banjo {n} (a musical instrument) | :: بانجو {m} /bānjū/, بانجو {m} /bānjū/ |
| Banjul {prop} (capital of the Gambia) | :: بانجول {m} /banjūl/ |
| bank {n} (institution) | :: مصرف {m} /maṣrif/, بنك {m} /bank/ |
| bank {n} (branch office) | :: مصرف {m} /maṣrif/, بنك {m} /bank/ |
| bank {n} (edge of river or lake) | :: ضفة {f} /ḍiffa/ |
| bank account {n} (fund deposited by a customer for safekeeping in a bank) | :: حساب مصرفي {m} /ḥisāb maṣrafiyy/ |
| banker {n} (one who conducts the business of banking) | :: مصرفي {m} /maṣrafiyy/, بنكي {m} /bankiyy/ |
| bank machine {n} (automated teller machine) SEE: automated teller machine | :: |
| banknote {n} (paper currency) | :: بنكنوت {m} /banknūt/ |
| bankrupt {adj} (having been legally declared insolvent) | :: مفلس /muflis/ |
| bankruptcy {n} (legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency) | :: إفلاس {m} /ʾiflās/ |
| banner {n} (flag) | :: راية {f} /rāya/, علم {m} /ʿalam/ |
| banner {n} (advertisement on a web page) | :: إعلان {m} |
| banner {adj} (exceptional; very good) | :: ممتاز /mumtāz/ |
| banquet {n} (a large celebratory meal; a feast) | :: وليمة {f} /walīma/, مأدبة {f} /maʾduba/, ضيافة {f} /ḍiyāfa/ |
| banshee {n} (in Irish folklore, a female spirit) | :: بانشي {f} /bānšī/ |
| bantustan {n} (territory defined as a homeland for black South Africans) | :: بانتوستان {m} /bāntūstān/ |
| baobab {n} (Adansonia digitata) | :: باوباب {m} /bāwbāb/ |
| Baotou {prop} (a prefecture-level city in northern China) | :: باوتو {m} /bawtū/ |
| Baphomet {prop} (pagan deity) | :: باهومت /bāhūmat/ |
| baptise {v} (baptise) SEE: baptize | :: |
| baptism {n} (Christian sacrament) | :: معمودية {f} /maʿmūdiyya/; تعميد {m} /taʿmīd/ |
| baptismal font {n} (a basin used for baptism) | :: جرن المعمودية /jurnu l-maʿmūdiyya/ |
| baptize {v} (To perform the Christian sacrament of baptism) | :: عمد /ʿammad/ |
| bar {n} (vertical bar mark) SEE: pipe | :: |
| bar {n} (music: section of a staff) SEE: measure | :: |
| bar {prep} (with the exception of) SEE: except | :: |
| bar {n} (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages) | :: خانة {f} /ḵāna/, بار {m} /bar/ |
| Barack {prop} (male given name) | :: باراك {m} /bārāk/ |
| barb {n} (beard or something that resembles a beard) SEE: beard | :: |
| Barbados {prop} (country in the Caribbean) | :: بربادوس {m} /barbādūs/ |
| Barbara {prop} (cognates and transliterations of female given name) | :: بربارة {f} /barbāra/ |
| barbarian {adj} (uncivilized) | :: همجي /hamajiyy/, متوحش /mutawaḥḥiš/ |
| barbarian {n} (uncivilized person) | :: همجي {m} /hamajiyy/ |
| barbaric {adj} (uncivilised) | :: همجي /hamajiyy/ |
| barbarous {adj} (barbarian) SEE: barbarian | :: |
| barbarous {adj} (barbaric) SEE: barbaric | :: |
| barbecue {n} (cooking instrument) | :: شواء {m} /šiwāʾ/, باربيكيو {m} /barbikyū/ |
| barbecue {v} (to cook food on a barbecue, see also: ) | :: شوى /šawā/ |
| barbecue {v} (grill) SEE: grill | :: |
| barbed wire {n} (twisted strands of steel wire) | :: سلك شائك {m} /silk šāʾik/ |
| barbell {n} (wide steel bar with premeasured weights) | :: بربل {m} /barbil/ |
| barber {n} (person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards) | :: حلاق {m} /ḥallāq/ |
| barber {v} (to cut the hair) | :: حلاقة |
| barberry {n} (Berberis) | :: برباريس {m} /barbārīs/, زرشك {m} /zarrašk/ |
| barber shop {n} (business which offers haircuts to men) SEE: barbershop | :: |
| barbershop {n} (barber's shop) | :: محل للحلاقة {m} /maḥall lilḥilāqa/ |
| barber surgeon {n} (medical practitioner) | :: بلان {m} /ballān/ |
| Barbie {prop} (diminutive of Barbara) | :: باربي {f} /bārbī/ |
| Barbie {n} (doll) | :: باربي {f} /bārbī/ |
| barbiturate {n} (derivative of barbituric acid that acts as a depressant of the central nervous system) | :: باربتيورات {m} /barbtywrat/ |
| Barcelona {prop} (capital of Catalonia) | :: برشلونة {f} /baršalūna/ |
| barcode {n} (set of machine-readable parallel bars) | :: شفرة خيطية {f} /šifra ḵayṭiyya/ |
| bard {n} (fat bacon) | :: بردعه |
| bare {adv} (barely) SEE: barely | :: |
| barefoot {adj} (wearing nothing on the feet) | :: حافي /ḥāfī/, حاف /ḥāfin/ |
| barefoot {adv} (wearing nothing on the feet) | :: حافي القدمين |
| barefooted {adj} (barefoot) SEE: barefoot | :: |
| barefooted {adv} (barefoot) SEE: barefoot | :: |
| barely {adv} (by a small margin) | :: بالكاد /bi-l-kād/ |
| barely {adv} (merely) SEE: merely | :: |
| Barents Sea {prop} (part of the Arctic Ocean) | :: بحر بارنتس {m} /baḥr bārants/ |
| barf {n} (vomit) SEE: vomit | :: |
| barf {v} (vomit) SEE: vomit | :: |
| barfly {n} (person who spends much time in a bar) | :: زبون بارات أو حانات الخمر |
| barium {n} (chemical element) | :: باريوم {m} /bāriyum/ |
| bark {v} (to make a loud noise (dogs)) | :: نبح /nabaḥa/, ينبح /yanbaḥ/ |
| bark {n} (short, loud, explosive utterance) | :: نباح {m} /nubāḥ/ |
| bark {n} (exterior covering of a tree) | :: لحاء {m} /liḥāʾ/ |
| barley {n} (Hordeum vulgare or its grains) | :: شعير {m} /šaʿīr/ |
| barn {n} (child) SEE: child | :: |
| barn {n} (building) | :: حظيرة {f} /ḥaẓīra/ |
| Barnabas {prop} (An early Christian) | :: برنابا {m} /barnābā/ |
| barnacle {n} (instrument to fix on the nose of a vicious horse) SEE: twitch | :: |
| Barnaul {prop} (city in Russia) | :: بارنول {m} /barnawl/ |
| barn swallow {n} (species of swallow) | :: خطاف المخازن |
| barometer {n} (an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure) | :: بارومتر {m} /barumitr/ |
| baroscope {n} (barometer) SEE: barometer | :: |
| barrack {n} (a building for soldiers) | :: ثكنة {f} /ṯukna/, قشلة {f} /qašla/ |
| barracks {n} (buildings used by military personnel) SEE: barrack | :: |
| barracuda {n} (predatory competitor) SEE: shark | :: |
| barrator {n} (who vexes others with frequent and needless lawsuits) | :: مشاكس {m} /mušākis/ |
| barrel {n} (tube) SEE: tube | :: |
| barrel {n} (jar) SEE: jar | :: |
| barrel {n} (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop) | :: برميل {m} /birmīl/ |
| barrel {n} (metallic tube of a gun) | :: ماسورة {f} /māsūra/ |
| barrel bomb {n} | :: برميل متفجر /birmīl mutafajjir/ |
| barricade {n} (a barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence) | :: متراس {m} /mitrās/ |
| barrier {n} (structure that bars passage) | :: حاجز {m} /ḥājiz/ |
| barring {prep} (excepting) | :: إلا /ʾilā/ |
| barter {v} (exchange goods or services without involving money) | :: قايض |
| Bartholomew {prop} (the Apostle) | :: برثولماوس {m} /barṯūlamāws/ |
| basalt {n} (hard rock) | :: بازلت {m} /bāzalt/ |
| base {n} (something from which other things extend) | :: أساس {m} /ʾasās/, قاعدة {f} /qāʿida/ |
| base {n} (permanent structure for housing military) | :: قاعدة {f} /qāʿida/ |
| base {n} (headquarters) | :: قاعدة {f} /qāʿida/, مركز {m} /markaz/ |
| base {n} (chemical compound that will neutralize an acid) | :: قاعدة {f} /qāʿida/ |
| base {n} (geometry: lowest side or face) | :: قاعدة {f} /qāʿida/ |
| base {v} (have as its foundation or starting point) | :: يبنى على /yubnā ʿalā/, يستند إلى /yastanidu ʾilā/ |
| base {adj} (low) | :: منخفض |
| base {adj} (of inferior quality) | :: دنيء |
| base {adj} (immoral) | :: فاسق |
| base {adj} (vulgar, common) | :: شائع |
| base {n} (bass) SEE: bass | :: |
| base {n} (apron) SEE: apron | :: |
| baseball {n} (ball game) | :: بيسبول {m} /baysbūl/ |
| basement {n} (floor below ground level) | :: قبو {m} /qabū/, سرداب {m} /sirdāb/, بدروم {m} /badrūm/, بدرون {m} /badrūn/ |
| Bashar {prop} (name) | :: بشار /baššār/ |
| Basheer {prop} (Bashir) SEE: Bashir | :: |
| bashfulness {n} (the quality or property of being bashful) | :: خجل {m} /ḵajal/, حياء {m} /ḥayāʾ/ |
| Bashir {prop} (Arabic surname) | :: بشير /bašīr/ |
| Bashir {prop} (Arabic male given name) | :: بشير /bašīr/ |
| Bashkiria {prop} (Bashkortostan) SEE: Bashkortostan | :: |
| Bashkortostan {prop} (federal subject of Russia) | :: باشكورتوستان {m} /baškortostān/ |
| basic {adj} (elementary, simple, merely functional) | :: أساسي /ʾasāsiyy/ |
| basically {adv} (in a fundamental or basic manner) | :: ببساطة |
| basic income {n} (basic income) | :: راتب أساسي {m}, دخل أساسي {m} |
| basil {n} (plant) | :: ريحان {m} /rayḥān/, حبق {m} /ḥabaq/ |
| basil {n} (herb) | :: ريحان {m} /rayḥān/, حبق {m} /ḥabaq/ |
| basin {n} (wide bowl for washing) | :: طشت {f} /ṭašt/ |
| basin {n} | :: الحوض |
| basis {n} (underlying condition) | :: قاعدة {f} /qāʿida/, أساس {m} /ʾasās/ |
| basket {n} (container) | :: سلة {f} /salla/ |
| basket {n} (basketball: hoop from which a net is suspended) | :: سلة {f} /salla/ |
| basketball {n} (the sport) | :: كرة السلة {f} /kurat as-salla/ |
| basketball {n} (the ball used in the sport) | :: كرة السلة {f} /kurat as-salla/ |
| basketball player {n} (person who plays basketball) | :: لاعب كرة سلة {m} /lāʿib kura(t) salla/ |
| Basque {n} (language) | :: الباسك {m} /al-bāsk/, البشكنس {f} /al-baškans/ |
| Basra {prop} (city in Iraq) | :: البصرة {f} /al-baṣra/ |
| bass {n} (musical instrument) | :: غيتار البيس |
| Basseterre {prop} (capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis) | :: باستير {m} /bastir/ |
| bassoon {n} (musical instrument in the woodwind family) | :: زمخر /zamkhir / |
| bastard {n} (person born to unmarried parents) | :: ابن زنى {m} /ibn zinan/, بنت زنى {f} /bint zinan/, ابنة زنى {f} /ibna(t) zinan/ |
| Bastet {prop} (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) | :: باستيت {f} |
| bastille {n} (prison) SEE: prison | :: |
| bastille {n} (fortress) SEE: fortress | :: |
| bastille {n} (citadel) SEE: citadel | :: |
| Bastille {prop} (a prison in France) | :: سجن الباستيل {m} /sajn al-bastīl/ |
| bat {n} (small flying mammal) | :: وطواط {m} /waṭwāṭ/, خفاش {m} /ḵuffāš/, خفدود /ḵufdūd/, خنفوش /ḵanfūš/ |
| bat {n} (club used for striking the ball in sports) | :: مضرب {m} /miḍrab/ |
| bate {v} (simple past of beat) SEE: beat | :: |
| bate {v} (masturbate) SEE: masturbate | :: |
| bath {n} (tub) | :: حمام {m} /ḥammām/, مغسل {m} /muḡsal/ |
| bath {n} (room) | :: حمام {m} /ḥammām/, مغتسل {m} /muḡtasal/ |
| bath {n} (act of bathing) | :: استحمام {m} /istiḥmām/, اغتسال {m} /iḡtisāl/ |
| Bath {prop} (City in England) | :: باث /bāṯ/ |
| bathe {v} (to clean oneself with water) | :: استحم /istaḥamma/, اغتسل /iḡtasala/ |
| bathhouse {n} (a building with baths for communal use) | :: حمام {m} /ḥammām/ |
| bathing suit {n} (tight fitting garment for swimming) SEE: swimsuit | :: |
| bathing trunks {n} (pair of shorts or briefs) SEE: swimming trunks | :: |
| bathos {n} (depth) SEE: depth | :: |
| bathos {n} (nadir) SEE: nadir | :: |
| bathrobe {n} (terrycloth robe) | :: رداء الحمام {m} /ridāʾ al-ḥammām/ |
| bathroom {n} (a room with a bathtub) | :: حمام {m} /ḥammām/ |
| bathroom {n} (room with a toilet) SEE: toilet | :: |
| bathtub {n} (large container in which a person may bathe) | :: بانيو /bānyō/, مغسل {m} /maḡsal/ |
| batik {n} (A method of dyeing fabric) | :: باتيك |
| baton {n} (sports: object transferred by relay runners) | :: عصا {f} /ʿaṣan/ |
| baton {n} (club of the police) | :: هراوة {f} /hirāwa/ |
| battering ram {n} (type of siege engine used to smash gates and walls) | :: مدق {m} /midaq/ |
| battery {n} (device storing electricity) | :: بطارية {f} /baṭṭāriyya/ |
| battle {n} (general action, fight, or encounter; a combat) | :: معركة {f} /maʿraka/ |
| battlefield {n} (field of a land battle) | :: ساحة حرب {f} /sāḥat ḥarb/, ساحة معركة {f} /sāḥat maʿraka/, معترك {m} /muʿtarak/, مقتتل {m} /muqtatal/ |
| battlefront {n} (line along which opposing armies engage in combat) | :: جبهة القتال /jabhat alqital/ |
| battleground {n} (location) SEE: battlefield | :: |
| Battle of Britain {prop} (series of air engagements between the British Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe during World War II) | :: معركة بريطانيا {f} /maʿraka(t) birīṭāniyā/ |
| baud {n} (A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second) | :: باود {m} /bāwd/ |
| Bauhaus {prop} (modernist style) | :: باوهاوس |
| Bavaria {prop} (region) | :: بفاريا {m} /bafāriyā/ |
| Bavaria {prop} (kingdom) | :: بفاريا {m} /bafāriyā/ |
| Bavaria {prop} (state) | :: بافاريا {f} /bāfāriyyā/, بفاريا {m} /bafāriyā/ |
| bay {n} (herb) | :: ورق الغار {m-p} /waraq al-ḡār/ |
| bay {n} (body of water) | :: خليج {m} /ḵalīj/, شرم {m} /šarm/, خور {m} /ḵūr/, جون {m} /jūn/ |
| bay leaf {n} (herb) | :: ورق الغار |
| Bay of Bengal {prop} (Large bay in the northeastern Indian Ocean) | :: خليج البنغال {m} /ḵalīj al-banḡāl/ |
| bayonet {n} (weapon) | :: حربة {f} /ḥarba/, سونكي {m} /sunkiyy/ |
| bazaar {n} (marketplace) | :: سوق {m} {f} /sūq/, بازار {m} /bāzār/ |
| BBC {prop} (British Broadcasting Corporation) | :: بي بي سي {m} /bī bī sī/ |
| BC {adv} (before Christ) | :: ق. م. /q. m./, قبل الميلاد /qabla l-mīlād/ |
| be {v} (occupy a place) | :: كان /kāna/ |
| be {v} (occur, take place) | :: كان /kāna/ |
| be {v} (exist) | :: كان /kāna/ |
| be {v} (used to indicate that the subject and object are the same) | :: كان /kāna/ |
| be {v} (used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal) | :: كان /kāna/ هو /huwa/, هي /hiya/ |
| be {v} (used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it) | :: كان /kāna/ هو /huwa/, هي /hiya/ |
| be {v} (used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase) | :: كان /kāna/ هو /huwa/, هي /hiya/ |
| be {v} (used to form the passive voice) | :: |
| be {v} (used to form the continuous forms of various tenses) | :: , كان /kāna/ + |
| be able to {v} (have ability to) | :: استطاع /istaṭāʿa/ |
| beach {n} (sandy shore) | :: شاطئ {m} /šāṭiʾ/ |
| beach soccer {n} (variant of soccer) | :: كرة قدم شاطئية {f} /kurat qadam šāṭiʾiyya/ |
| beach volleyball {n} (sport) | :: كرة طائرة شاطئية /kurat ṭāʾira šāṭiʾiyya/ |
| beacon {n} (signal fire) | :: فنار {m} /fanār/ |
| beacon {n} (signaling or guiding mark erected as guide to mariners) | :: منار {m} /manār/ |
| bead tree {n} (Melia azedarach) | :: أزادرخت /ʾazādarḵat/ |
| beak {n} (structure projecting from a bird's face) | :: منقار {m} /minqār/ |
| beam {n} (large piece of timber or iron) | :: خشبة {f} /ḵašaba/ |
| beam {n} (ray) | :: شعاع {m} /šuʿāʿ/ |
| beam {n} | :: شعاع, كمرة |
| bean {n} (seed) | :: فاصوليا {f} /fāṣūliyā/, لوبيا {f} /lūbiyā/ |
| bean {n} (guinea coin) SEE: guinea | :: |
| bean curd {n} (tofu) SEE: tofu | :: |
| bear {v} (to give birth) SEE: give birth | :: |
| bear {v} (to carry) | :: حمل /ḥamala/ |
| bear {v} (to tolerate, to put up with) | :: احتمل /iḥtamala/ |
| bear {n} (large mammal of family Ursidae) | :: دب {m} /dubb/, دبة {f} /dubba/ |
| bear cub {n} (young bear) | :: ديسم {m} /daysam/ |
| beard {n} (facial hair) | :: لحية {f} /liḥya/ |
| bearded {adj} (having a beard) | :: ملتح /multaḥin/ |
| bearded vulture {n} (vulture) SEE: lammergeier | :: |
| bear false witness {v} (to give an untrue testimony) | :: شهد زورا /šahida zūran/ |
| bear witness {v} (deliver testimony) | :: شهد /šahida/ |
| bearwort {n} (meum athamanticum) SEE: baldmoney | :: |
| be ashamed {v} (feel ashamed) | :: استحى /istaḥā/ |
| beast {n} (non-human animal) | :: وحش {m} /waḥš/ |
| beast {n} (violent/antisocial person) | :: متوحش {m} |
| beast of burden {n} (domesticated animal trained to perform tasks for humans) | :: بهيمة {f} /bahīma/ |
| beat {n} (stroke, blow) | :: ضربة {f} /ḍarba/ |
| beat {n} (pulsation) | :: نبض {m} |
| beat {v} (to hit, to knock, to pound, to strike) | :: ضرب /ḍaraba/, دق /daqqa/ |
| beat {v} (to strike or pound repeatedly) | :: وجف /wajafa/ |
| beat {v} (to win against) | :: هزم /hazama/, غلب /ḡalaba/ |
| beat {v} (to mix food) | :: يخفق |
| beaten {adj} (defeated) SEE: defeated | :: |
| beating {n} (action of the verb to beat) | :: ضرب {m} /ḍarb/ |
| Beatles {prop} (rock music quartet) | :: بيتلز {p} /bītlz/, بيتيلز {p} /bītilz/ |
| beau {n} (boyfriend) SEE: boyfriend | :: |
| Beaufort scale {prop} (measure for the intensity of the wind) | :: مقياس بوفورت {m} /miqyās bufurt/ |
| beautification {n} (beautifying, making beautiful) | :: تجميل {m} /tajmīl/ |
| beautiful {adj} (possessing charm and attractive) | :: جميل /jamīl/ |
| beautify {v} (to make beautiful or more beautiful) | :: جمل /jammala/ |
| beauty {n} (quality of pleasing appearance) | :: جمال {m} /jamāl/, زين {m} /zayn/ |
| beauty {n} (someone beautiful: female) | :: حسناء {f} /ḥasnāʾ/, جميلة {f} /jamīla/, غانية {f} /ḡāniya/ |
| beauty {n} (beauty quark) SEE: bottom quark | :: |
| beauty contest {n} (beauty pageant) SEE: beauty pageant | :: |
| beauty is in the eye of the beholder {proverb} (people have different ideas of what is beautiful) | :: الجمال هو في عين الناظر /al-jamālu huwa fī ʿayni n-nāẓiri/, الجمال مقرون بعين الملاحظ /al-jamālu maqrūn biʿayni l-mulāḥiẓi/ |
| beauty pageant {n} (competition on attractiveness) | :: مسابقة الجمال {f} /musābaqat al-jamāl/ |
| beauty spot {n} (birthmark) SEE: mole | :: |
| beaver {n} (semiaquatic rodent) | :: سمور {m} /sammūr/, قندس {m} /qundus/ |
| be awake {v} (awake) SEE: awake | :: |
| be awake {v} (wake up) SEE: wake up | :: |
| be awake {v} (to not sleep) | :: يقظ /yaqiẓa/, يقظ /yaquẓa/ |
| be born {v} (to come into existence through birth) | :: ولد /wulida/ |
| be called {v} (to have a specific name) | :: سمي /summiya/ |
| because {adv} (on account) | :: بسبب /bisabab/, لأجل /liʾajli/ |
| because {conj} (by or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that) | :: لأن /liʾanna/ |
| because of {prep} (on account of, by reason of, for the purpose of) | :: بسبب /bisabab/, بحكم /biḥukm/, بهدف /bihadaff/, بفضل /bifaḍl/, عن طريق /ʿann ṭarīq/ |
| become {v} (to begin to be) | :: صار /ṣāra/, أصبح /ʾaṣbaḥa/ |
| becoming {n} (The act or process by which something becomes) | :: صيرورة {f} /ṣayrūra/ |
| bed {n} (piece of furniture) | :: سرير {m} /sarīr/, فراش {m} /firāš/ |
| bed {n} (the bottom of a lake or other body of water) | :: قاع {m} /qāʿ/, حوض {m} /ḥawḍ/ |
| bed {n} (garden plot) | :: مشارة {f} /mašāra/, حوض {m} /ḥawḍ/, زراعة {f} /zirāʿa/ |
| bedbug {n} (small nocturnal insect) | :: بق {m} /baqq/ , بق الفراش {m} /baqq al-firāš/, بقة {f} /baqqa/ (singulative) |
| bedcover {n} (decorative cover for a bed) SEE: bedspread | :: |
| beddy-bye {n} (bedtime for a toddler) | :: نيني /nyny/ |
| bedframe {n} (frame of a bed) SEE: bedstead | :: |
| bedouin {n} (desert-dweller) | :: بدوي {m} /badawiyy/, بدو {m-p} /badw/ |
| bedroom {n} (room in a house where a bed is kept for sleeping) | :: غرفة نوم {f} /ḡurfat nawm/ |
| bed sheet {n} (sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen) | :: شرشف /šaršaf/ |
| bedsheet {n} (a sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen) | :: شرشف {m} /šaršaf/, ملاءات {f-p} /malāʾāt/ |
| bedside table {n} (nightstand) SEE: nightstand | :: |
| bedspread {n} (topmost covering of a bed) | :: مقرم {m} /miqram/ |
| bedstead {n} (bed framework) | :: هيكل سرير {m} /haykal sarīr/, ملة سرير {f} /mulla(t) sarīr/ |
| bee {n} (insect) | :: نحلة {f} /naḥla/, نحل {f} /naḥl/ |
| bee {n} (name of the letter B, b) | :: بي {m} /bī/ |
| beebread {n} (bee pollen with added honey and bee secretions) | :: خبز النحل {m} /ḵubz an-naḥl/ |
| beech {n} (tree of genus Fagus) | :: مران /murrān/, زان /zān/ |
| bee-eater {n} (bird in the family Meropidae) | :: وروار {m} /warwār/ |
| beef {n} (meat) | :: لحم بقر {m} /laḥm baqar/ |
| beef {n} (cow, bull) SEE: cow | :: |
| beehive {n} (home of bees) | :: خلية {f} /ḵaliyya/, قفير {m} /qafīr/, كوارة {f} /kuwāra/, جبح {m} /jabḥ/, عسالة {m} /ʿassāla/, منحل {m} /manḥal/ |
| beehive {n} (man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey) | :: خلية {f} /ḵaliyya/, قفير {m} /qafīr/, كوارة {f} /kuwāra/, جبح {m} /jabḥ/, عسالة {m} /ʿassāla/, منحل {m} /manḥal/ |
| beekeeper {n} (someone who keeps bees) | :: نحال {m} /naḥḥāl/, عسال {m} /ʿassāl/, جباح {m} /jabbāḥ/ |
| Beelzebub {prop} (a Semitic deity, another name for the Devil) | :: بعل زبوب {m} /baʿl zabūb/, بعلزبول {m} /baʿlzabūl/ |
| beer {n} (alcoholic drink made of malt) | :: بيرة {f} /bīra/, جعة {f} /jiʿa/, مزر {m} /mizr/ |
| beer bar {n} (beer parlour) SEE: beer parlour | :: |
| beer parlor {n} (beer parlour) SEE: beer parlour | :: |
| beer parlour {n} (a bar, selling beers, that has tables) | :: صالون البيرة {m} /ṣālūn al-bīra/ |
| beestings {n} (first milk drawn from an animal) SEE: colostrum | :: |
| beet {n} (Beta vulgaris) | :: شمندر {m} /šamandar/ |
| Beethoven {prop} (German surname) | :: بيتهوفن /bīthūfan/ |
| beetle {n} (insect) | :: خنفساء {f} /ḵunfusāʾ/ |
| beetroot {n} (normally deep red coloured root vegetable) | :: شمندر أحمر {m} /šamandar ʾaḥmar/, بنجر {m} /banjar/ |
| beey {adj} (reminiscent or containing bees) | :: نحلي /naḥliyy/ |
| before {prep} (earlier than) | :: قبل /qabla/ |
| before {prep} (in front of in space) | :: قبل /qabla/, أمام /ʾamāma/, قدام /quddāma/, بين يدي /bayna yaday/ |
| before {prep} (in front of according to an ordering system) | :: قبل /qabla/ |
| before long {prep} (soon) SEE: soon | :: |
| befriend {v} (make friends) SEE: make friends | :: |
| beg {v} (to request the help of someone, often in the form of money) | :: استجدى /istajdā/, سأل /saʾala/ |
| beg {v} (to plead with someone for help) | :: تسول /tasawwala/ |
| beggar {n} (person who begs) | :: سائل {m} /sāʾil/ |
| beggar {n} (person suffering poverty) | :: فقير {m} /faqīr/ |
| begging {n} (the act of one who begs) | :: تسول {m} /tasawwul/ |
| begin {v} (to start, to initiate or take the first step into something.) | :: بدأ /badaʾa/, ابتدأ /ibtadaʾa/ |
| beginner {n} (someone who just recently started) | :: مبتدئ {m} /mubtadiʾ/ |
| beginning {n} (act of doing that which begins anything) | :: بداية {f} /bidāya/ |
| beginning {n} (that which begins or originates something) | :: بداية {f} /bidāya/ |
| beginning {n} (initial portion of some extended thing) | :: بداية {f} /bidāya/ |
| behave {v} (to act in a specific manner) | :: تصرف /taṣarrafa/ |
| behave {v} (to act in a polite or proper way) | :: تصرف /taṣarrafa/ |
| behave oneself {v} (to act in a polite or proper way) SEE: behave | :: |
| behavior {n} (way an animal or human behaves or acts) | :: سلوك {m} /sulūk/, تصرف {m} /taṣarruf/ |
| behavior {n} (way matter or systems behave) | :: سلوك /sulūk/ |
| behavior {n} | :: سلوك /sulūk/ |
| behaviour {n} (behavior) SEE: behavior | :: |
| behead {v} (to remove the head) | :: ضرب عنقه /ḍaraba ʿunuqahu/ |
| behemoth {n} (mighty beast in the Book of Job) | :: بهيموث {m} /bahīmūṯ/, بهموت {m} /bahamūt/ |
| behest {n} (promise) SEE: promise | :: |
| behind {prep} (at the back of) | :: وراء /warāʾa/, خلف /ḵalfa/ |
| behind {prep} (to the back of) | :: وراء /warāʾ/, خلف /ḵalfa/ |
| behind {prep} (after, time- or motion-wise) | :: وراء /warāʾa/ |
| behind bars {prep} (in jail or prison) | :: خلف القضبان /ḵalfa l-quḍbān/, وراء القضبان /warāʾa l-quḍbān/ |
| behind the scenes {prep} (in secret; out of public view) | :: من وراء الستار /min warāʾa s-sitāri/, وراء الكواليس /warāʾa l-kawālīsi/ |
| behold {v} (to see, to look at) | :: هوذا {m} /huwaḏā/ |
| behold {interj} | :: ها /hā/ |
| beige {n} (colour) | :: بيج /bīj/ |
| beige {adj} (having a slightly yellowish gray colour) | :: بيج /bīj/ |
| Beijing {prop} (capital of China) | :: بكين {f} /bikīn/, بكين {f} /pikīn/, پكين {f} /pikīn/ |
| being {n} (a living creature) | :: كائن {m} /kāʾin/, مخلوق {m} /maḵlūq/ |
| being {n} (the state or fact of existence) | :: كينونة {f} /kaynūna/, كون /kawn/ |
| Beirut {prop} (capital of Lebanon) | :: بيروت {f} /bayrūt/ |
| Beiruti {adj} (of or pertaining to Beirut) | :: بيروتي /bayrūtiyy/ |
| Beiruti {n} (a person from, or an inhabitant of, Beirut) | :: بيروتي {m} /bayrūtiyy/, بيروتية {f} /bayrūtiyya/ |
| bejel {n} (Endemic syphilis) | :: بجل {m} /bajal/ |
| Belarus {prop} (country) | :: بيلاروسيا {f} /belarūsiyā/, روسيا البيضاء {f} /rūsyā l-bayḍāʾ/, بيلاروس {f} /belarūs/ |
| Belarusian {adj} (pertaining to Belarus) | :: بيلاروسي /bīlārūsiyy/ |
| Belarusian {n} (language) | :: بيلاروسي {m} /bilarūsiyy/, بيلاروسية {f} /bilarūsiyya/, لغة بيلاروسية {f} /luḡa bilarūsiyya/ |
| Belarusian {n} (person from Belarus or of Belarusian descent) | :: بيلاروسي {m} /bilarūsiyy/, بيلاروسية {f} /bilarūsiyya/ |
| be late {v} (arrive late) | :: تأخر /taʾaḵḵara/ |
| belch {v} (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) | :: تجشؤ /tajaššuʾa/ |
| Belfast {prop} (capital of Northern Ireland) | :: بلفاست {m} /bilfāst/ |
| Belgian {n} (Belgian, person from Belgium) | :: بلجيكي {m} /beljīkiyy/ |
| Belgian {adj} (of or pertaining to Belgium) | :: بلجيكي /beljīkiyy/ |
| Belgian {adj} (of or pertaining to Belgians or Belgian people) | :: بلجيكي /beljīkiyy/ |
| Belgium {prop} (country in Europe) | :: بلجيكا {f} /beljīkā/ |
| Belgorod {prop} (a city in Russia) | :: بيلغورود {m} /bilḡurud/ |
| Belgrade {prop} (capital of Serbia) | :: بلغراد {f} /bilḡrād/, بلجراد {f} /bilgrād/ |
| belie {v} (to contradict or show to be false) | :: كذب /kaḏḏaba/ |
| belief {n} (mental acceptance of a claim as truth) | :: اعتقاد {m} /iʿtiqād/ |
| belief {n} (religious faith) | :: عقيدة |
| belief {n} (religious or moral convictions) | :: إيمان /ʾīmān/ |
| believe {v} (to accept that someone is telling the truth (object: person)) | :: صدق /ṣaddaqa/ |
| believe {v} (to accept as true) | :: صدق /ṣaddaqa/ |
| believe {v} (to consider likely) | :: ظن /ẓanna/ |
| believe {v} (to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth) | :: آمن /ʾāmana/ (present tense: يؤمن /yuʾmin/), صدق /ṣaddaqa/ |
| believe in {v} (ascribe existence to) | :: آمن ب /ʾāmana bi-/ |
| believe me {phrase} (be assured) | :: صدقني {m-s} /ṣaddiqnī/ |
| believer {n} (person who believes) | :: مؤمن {m} /muʾmin/ |
| Believers {prop} (23rd sura of the Qur'an) | :: سورة المومنون |
| belittle {v} (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is) | :: صغر /ṣaḡḡara/, احتقر /iḥtaqara/ |
| belittlement {n} (An act of belittling) | :: استصغار |
| Belize {prop} (country) | :: بليز {f} /balīz/ |
| bell {n} (percussive instrument) | :: جرس {m} /jaras/ |
| bell {n} | :: جرس (jaras), ناقوس /nāqūs/ |
| belladonna {n} (a plant, Atropa belladonna) SEE: deadly nightshade | :: |
| belles-lettres {n} (light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties) | :: أدب {m} /ʾadab/ |
| bellicist {n} (warmonger) SEE: warmonger | :: |
| bellows {n} (air blower) | :: منفاخ {m} /minfāḵ/ |
| bell pepper {n} (spicy-sweet vegetable) | :: فلفل حلو /filfil ḥulw/, فلفل رومي {m} /filfil rūmiyy/ |
| belly {n} (abdomen) | :: بطن {m} /baṭn/ |
| bellybutton {n} (the navel or umbilicus) SEE: navel | :: |
| belly dance {n} (form of dance) | :: رقص شرقي {m} /raqṣ šarqiyy/ , رقص بلدي {m} /raqṣ baladiyy/ |
| Belmopan {prop} (Belmopan) | :: بلموبان {f} /bilmūbān/ |
| belong {v} (have its proper place) | :: انتمى /intamā/ |
| beloved {adj} (loved) | :: محبوب {m} /maḥbūb/, محبوبة {f} /maḥbūba/, أحباء {p} /ʾaḥibbāʾ/ |
| beloved {n} (someone who is loved) | :: حبيب /ḥabīb/ |
| below {prep} (lower in spatial position than) | :: تحت /taḥta/ |
| below {prep} (lower in value than) | :: أقل /ʾaqal/ |
| below {prep} (south of) | :: جنوبي /janūbiyy/ |
| below {prep} | :: (ta-hat) تحت |
| belt {n} (band worn around the waist) | :: حزام {m} /ḥizām/ |
| ben {n} (ben tree) | :: بان {m} /bān/ |
| ben {n} (son of) | :: بن {m} /bin/, ابن {m} /ibn/ |
| bench {n} (long seat) | :: مقعد {m} /maqʿad/ |
| bench {n} (workbench) SEE: workbench | :: |
| bend {v} (to cause to shape into a curve) | :: ثنى /ṯanā/ |
| beneath {adv} (below or underneath) | :: تحت /taḥt/ |
| beneath {prep} (below) | :: أسفل /ʾasfal/ |
| beneficence {n} (act of philanthropy) | :: معروف {m} /maʿrūf/ |
| beneficent {adj} (beneficent) | :: رحيم /raḥīm/, محسن /muḥsin/, متصدق /mutaṣaddiq/ |
| beneficial {adj} (helpful or good to something or someone) | :: مفيد /mufīd/ |
| benefit {n} (advantage, help or aid) | :: فائدة {f} /fāʾida/, جدوى /jadwā/, منفعة {f} /manfaʿa/ |
| benefit {n} (profit, use) | :: فائدة {f} /fāʾida/ |
| benefit of the doubt {n} (a favorable judgement given in the absence of full evidence) | :: يفترض حسن النية |
| benevolence {n} (disposition to do good) | :: النزعة إلى الخير {m} {f} |
| benevolent {adj} (having a disposition to do good) | :: خير /ḵayyir/ |
| Bengal {prop} (region in South Asia) | :: البنغال {m} /al-banḡāl/ |
| Bengali {adj} (of or pertaining to Bengal) | :: بنغالي /banḡāliyy/ |
| Bengali {n} (person from Bengal) | :: بنغالي {m} /banḡāliyy/ |
| Bengali {n} (language) | :: بنغالي {m} /binḡāliyy/, البنغالية {f} /al-binḡāliyya/ |
| Benghazi {prop} (Benghazi, Libya) | :: بنغازي {m} /binḡāzī/ |
| Benin {prop} (country) | :: بنين {m} /banīn/ |
| Benjamin {prop} (the youngest son of Jacob) | :: بنيامين {m} /binyāmīn/, بنيامين {m} /banyāmīn/ |
| Benjamin {prop} (male given name) | :: بنيامين {m} /binyāmīn/, بنيامين {m} /banyāmīn/ |
| Bentley {n} (British car) | :: بنتلي {m} /bintlī/, بنتلي {m} /bentlī/ |
| bento {n} (a Japanese packed lunch) | :: بنتو {m} /bintū/, بنتو {m} /bentō/ |
| benumb {v} (make numb) SEE: numb | :: |
| Benxi {prop} (a city of China) | :: بينشي {m} /binšī/ |
| benzene {n} (aromatic compound C6H6) | :: بنزين {m} /banzīn/ |
| benzine {n} (benzene) SEE: benzene | :: |
| benzoin {n} (resinous substance from tree) | :: لبان جاوي {m} /lubān jāwiyy/ |
| benzyl {n} (chemical compound) | :: بنزيل |
| Beograd {prop} (Belgrade) SEE: Belgrade | :: |
| be oneself {v} (to act naturally) | :: كان نفسك {m} /kāna nafsaka/, كان نفسك {f} /kāna nafsaki/ |
| be prepared {phrase} (motto) | :: كن مستعدا /kun mustaʿidan/ |
| be quiet {interj} (remain silent) SEE: silence | :: |
| berate {v} (chide vehemently) | :: سب /sabba/, شاتم /šātama/, شتم /šatama/, لحا /laḥā/ |
| Berber {n} (Member of northwest African ethnic group) | :: أمازيغ {m} /ʾamāzīḡ/, بربري {m} /barbariyy/ |
| Berber {prop} (a group of closely related languages) | :: أمازيغية {f} /ʾamāzīḡiyya/ |
| bergamot {n} (Mentha × piperita) SEE: peppermint | :: |
| be right {v} (be correct in one's judgement or statement about something) | :: حق /ḥaqqa/ |
| Bering Sea {prop} (sea) | :: بحر برينغ {m} /baḥr barīnḡ/ |
| Bering Strait {prop} (strait between Russia and Alaska) | :: بيرنغ {m} /bīrinḡ/ |
| berkelium {n} (transuranic chemical element) | :: بركليوم {m} /birkilyum/ |
| Berlin {prop} (capital city of Germany) | :: برلين {m} /barlīn/ |
| Berlin Wall {prop} (wall that parted Berlin) | :: جدار برلين {m} /jidār barlīn/ |
| Berlusconi {prop} (surname) | :: برلسكوني /barluskūnī/ |
| Bermuda {prop} (island group) | :: جزر برمودا {f-p} /juzur barmūdā/ |
| Bern {prop} (city) | :: برن {m} /bern/, بيرن {m} /bern/, بيرن {m} /bīrn/ |
| berry {n} (small fruit) | :: توت {m} /tūt/, حبة {f} /ḥabba/ |
| bersagliere {n} (marksman or rifleman in Italian regiments) | :: بيرساغلييري {m-p} |
| beryllium {n} (chemical element) | :: بيريليوم {m} /birilyum/ |
| Bes {prop} (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) | :: بس {m} |
| be sick {v} (vomit) SEE: vomit | :: |
| beside {prep} (next to) | :: بجانب /bi-jānib/ |
| besides {prep} (other than; except for) | :: إلا /ʾillā/, باستثناء /bi-stiṯnāʾ/ |
| besides {adv} (moreover; furthermore) | :: علاوة على ذلك /ʿilāwa ʿalā ḏālika/ |
| besiege {v} (to surround with armed forces) | :: حاصر |
| be silent {v} (refrain from speaking) | :: صمت /ṣamata/, سكت /sakata/ |
| Bessarabia {prop} (region) | :: البصعربية /al-biṣaʿrabiyya/ |
| best {adj} (superlative of the adjective good) | :: (ال /al--/ +) أفضل /ʾafḍal/, (ال /al--/ +) أحسن /ʾaḥsan/ |
| best {adv} (superlative of the adverb well) | :: أفضل /ʾafḍal/, أحسن /ʾaḥsan/ |
| best friend {n} (an especially close and trusted friend) | :: أفضل صديق {m} /ʾafḍal ṣadīq/, فضلى صديقة {f} /fuḍlā ṣadīqa/ |
| best friend forever {n} (an especially close and trusted friend) | :: أفاضل أصدقاء للأبد {m} {p} /ʾafāḍil ʾaṣdiqāʾ lilʾabad/, فضليات صديقات للأبد {f} {p} /fuḍlayāt ṣadiyqāt lilʾabad/ |
| bestiality {n} (sexual activity) | :: بهيمية {f} /bahīmiyya/ |
| bestiary {n} (A medieval treatise of animals) | :: حيوانات رامزة |
| bestow {v} (to present a thing as a gift or honour) | :: أنعم /ʾanʿama/ |
| best regards {n} (polite closing of a letter) | :: مع أطيب التحيات /maʿa ʾaṭyab at-taḥyāt/ |
| bestride {v} (dominate) SEE: dominate | :: |
| bestseller {n} (book or thing sold in large numbers) | :: أكثر رواجا {m} /ʾakṯar rawājan/, أكثر مبيعا {m} /ʾakṯar mabīʿan/ |
| bet {n} (a wager) | :: رهان {m} /rihān/, مراهنة {f} /murāhana/ |
| bet {v} (to stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event) | :: راهن /rāhana/ |
| beta {n} (letter of the Greek alphabet) | :: بيتا {f} /betā/, بيتا {f} /bītā/ |
| betatron {n} (a form of cyclotron used to accelerate electrons to high speed) | :: بيتاترون {m} /betātrūn/ |
| Betelgeuse {prop} (supergiant) | :: منكب الجوزاء {m} /mankib al-jawzāʾ/ |
| betel leaf {n} (leaf of the betel) | :: تنبول {m} /tunbūl/ |
| betel nut {n} (An egg-shaped seed of the betel palm) | :: فوفل {m} /fawfal/ |
| betel palm {n} (Areca catechu, an Asiatic palm) | :: فوفل {m} /fawfal/ |
| betel pepper {n} (Piper betle) | :: تنبول {m} /tunbūl/ |
| Bethlehem {prop} (City) | :: بيت لحم {f} /bayt laḥm/ |
| betony {n} (Stachys officinalis) | :: قسطران {m} /qasṭarān/ |
| betony {n} (plant of the genus Stachys) SEE: woundwort | :: |
| betray {v} (to deliver into the hands of an enemy) | :: خان /ḵāna/ |
| betrayal {n} (treason) SEE: treason | :: |
| betrothed {n} (fiancé or fiancée) | :: خطب, مخطوب {m} /maḵṭūb/, مخطوبة {f} /maḵṭūba/ |
| better {adj} (comparative of the adjectives good or well) | :: أفضل /ʾafḍal/, أحسن /ʾaḥsan/ |
| better {v} (to improve) | :: حسن /ḥassana/ |
| better {v} (to become better) | :: تحسن /taḥassana/ |
| better an egg today than a hen tomorrow {proverb} (a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush) SEE: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush | :: |
| better late than never {adv} (it’s better to do something late, than to never do it at all) | :: أن يأتي متأخرا خير من ألا يأتي أبدا /ʾan yaʾtī mutaʾaḵḵiran ḵayr min ʾallā yaʾtī ʾabadan/ |
| betting {n} (act of placing a bet) | :: مراهنة {f} /murāhana/ |
| between {prep} (in the position or interval that separates two things) | :: بين /bayna/ |
| between a rock and a hard place {prep} (in a difficult and inescapable position) | :: بين المطرقة والسندان /bayna l-mitraqa wa s-sindān/ (between the hammer and the anvil) |
| between a rock and a hard place {prep} (having the choice between two unpleasant options) | :: أمام خيارين أحلاهما مر /ʾamāma ḵiyārayni ʾaḥlāhumā murr/ (having two choices the sweeter of which is bitter) |
| between the hammer and the anvil {prep} (with the choice between two unpleasant or distasteful options) | :: بين المطرقة والسندان /bayna l-miṭraqati was-sindāni/ |
| between you and me {prep} (in confidence) | :: بيني وبينك /baynī wabaynaka/ |
| betwixt {prep} (between, specifically between two things) | :: بين /bayn/ |
| beverage {n} (drink) | :: شراب {m} /šarāb/ |
| beware {v} (use caution, pay attention (to)) | :: حذار /ḥaḏāri/, احذر /iḥḏar/ |
| bewilder {v} (to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone) | :: يربك, يحير |
| bewitched {adj} (Under a spell; entranced) | :: مسحور /masḥūr/ |
| bey {n} (governor of a Turkish dominion) | :: بيه {m} /bīh/, بيك {m} /bīk/, بك {m} /bik/, بك {m} /bek/ |
| Beyblade {n} (spinning top toy) | :: بيبليد {m} |
| beyond {prep} (beyond) SEE: above | :: |
| beyond {n} (unknown) SEE: unknown | :: |
| beyond {prep} (further away than) | :: أبعد /ʾabʿad/ |
| beyond {prep} (on the far side of) | :: أقصى /ʾaqṣā/ |
| beyond {prep} (later than; after) | :: بعد /baʿd/ |
| beyond {prep} (greater than) | :: فوق /fawq/ |
| beyond {prep} (in addition to) | :: فوق /fawqa/ |
| beyond {n} (afterlife) SEE: afterlife | :: |
| bezoar {n} (mass of undigested matter) | :: بازهر |
| Bharat {prop} (India) SEE: India | :: |
| Bhopal {prop} (capital of Madhya Pradesh, India) | :: بهوبال {m} /bhūbāl/ |
| Bhutan {prop} (Himalayan country) | :: بوتان {m} /butān/ |
| bias {n} (inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality) | :: تحيز {m} /taḥayyuz/ |
| bib {n} (item of clothing for protecting other clothes while eating) | :: مريلة /miryala/ |
| bible {n} (omasum) SEE: omasum | :: |
| Bible {prop} (Jewish holy book) SEE: Tanakh | :: |
| Bible {prop} (Christian holy book) | :: الكتاب المقدس {m} /al-kitāb al-muqaddas/ |
| biblical {adj} (of or relating to the Bible) | :: must generally be expressed nominally; كتابي ; توراتي, إنجيلي |
| biceps {n} (any muscle having two heads) | :: ذات الرأسين {f} /ḏāt ar-raʾsayn/ |
| biceps {n} (the upper arm, especially the muscles) | :: ذات الرأسين العضدية {f} /ḏāt ar-raʾsayn al-ʿaḍudiyya/ |
| Bicol {prop} (language) | :: غات البيكول |
| Bicolano {prop} (Bicol) SEE: Bicol | :: |
| bicycle {n} (vehicle) | :: دراجة {f} /darrāja/ |
| bicyclist {n} (rider of bicycle) SEE: cyclist | :: |
| bid {n} (offer at an auction) | :: عرض {m} /ʿarḍ/, عطاء {m} /ʿaṭāʾ/ |
| Biden {prop} (surname) | :: بايدن /baydan/, بايدن /baydin/ |
| bidet {n} (low-mounted plumbing fixture for cleaning the genitalia and anus) | :: بيديت {m} /bidit/, بيديه {m} /bidih/ |
| bier {n} (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person) | :: جنازة {f} /janāza/ |
| big {adj} (of a great size, see also: large) | :: كبير /kabīr/ |
| big {adj} (adult) | :: كبير /kabīr/ |
| bigamy {n} (state of having two spouses simultaneously) | :: تعدد الأزواج {m} /taʿaddud al-ʾazwāj/ , تعدد الزوجات {m} /taʿaddud az-zawjāt/ |
| Big Bad Wolf {n} (fictional evil wolf) | :: ذئب كبير سيئ {m} /ḏiʾb kabīr sayyiʾ/ |
| Big Bang {prop} (cosmic event) | :: إنفجار عظيم {m} /ʾinfijār ʿaẓīm/ |
| Big Ben {prop} (the hour bell in London) | :: بيج بن {m} /big ben/, بيغ بن {m} /biḡ ben/ |
| big brother {n} (a sibling's older brother) SEE: older brother | :: |
| big eater {n} (glutton) SEE: glutton | :: |
| bigger {adj} (comparative of big) | :: أكبر /ʾakbar/ |
| Big Mac {n} (burger) | :: بيج ماك {m} /big mak/, بيغ ماك {m} /big mak/, بيغ ماك {m} /biḡ mak/ |
| bigot {n} (one who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups and intolerant of others) | :: متعصب /mutaʿaṣṣib/ |
| big sister {n} (a sibling's older sister) SEE: older sister | :: |
| Bihar {prop} (a state in eastern India) | :: بيهار {m} /bīhār/ |
| biker {n} (person who rides a bicycle) SEE: cyclist | :: |
| bikini {n} (bathing suit) | :: بيكيني {m} /bīkīnī/ |
| bilateral {adj} (having two sides) | :: ثنائي /ṯunāʾiyy/ |
| Bilbao {prop} (city of northern Spain) | :: بلباو {f} /bilbāw/ |
| bilby {n} (Australian desert marsupial) | :: بيلبي كبير |
| bile {n} (secretion produced by the liver) | :: صفراء {f} /ṣafrāʾ/ |
| bile duct {n} (structure carrying bile) | :: قناة صفراء {f} /qanāt ṣafrāʾ/ |
| bilingual {adj} (speaking two languages) | :: ثنائي اللغة /ṯunāʾī l-luḡa/ |
| bilingual {adj} (written in two languages) | :: ثنائي اللغة /ṯunāʾī l-luḡa/ |
| bill {n} (bird's beak) | :: منقار {m} /minqār/ |
| bill {n} (draft of a law) | :: لائحة {f} /lāʾiḥa/ |
| bill {n} (invoice) | :: فاتورة {f} /fātūra/, حساب {m} /ḥisāb/ |
| bill {n} (piece of paper money) SEE: banknote | :: |
| Bill {prop} (male given name) | :: بيل {m} /bīl/, بيل {m} /bil/ |
| billet-doux {n} (love letter) SEE: love letter | :: |
| billfold {n} (wallet) SEE: wallet | :: |
| billiards {n} (a cue sport) | :: بلياردو {m} /bilyārdū/ |
| billion {n} (a thousand million; 1,000,000,000; a milliard) | :: مليار {m} /milyār/ |
| billionaire {n} (wealth exceeding one billion (109)) | :: ملياردير {m} /milyārdīr/ |
| Billy {prop} (William) SEE: William | :: |
| billy goat {n} (male goat) | :: تيس {m} /tays/ |
| bind {v} (transitive to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.) | :: أسر /ʾasara/, ربط /rabaṭa/ |
| bind {v} (transitive connect) | :: ربط /rabaṭa/ |
| binky {n} (pacifier) SEE: pacifier | :: |
| binoculars {n} (hand-held device for looking at a distance) | :: منظار {m} /minẓār/ |
| binomial nomenclature {n} (The scientific system of naming each species of organism with a Latinized name in two parts) | :: تسمية ثنائية {f} /tasmiya ṯunāʾiyya/ |
| binyan {n} (in Semitic languages, a kind of word stem into which vowels and affixes can be slotted) | :: وزن {m} /wazn/ |
| bio- {prefix} (life) | :: حيوي {m} /ḥayawiyy/ |
| biochemistry {n} (the chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism) | :: كيمياء حيوية {f} /kīmiyāʾ ḥayawiyya/ |
| biodiversity {n} (diversity of flora and fauna) | :: تنوع البيولوجي /tanawwuʿ al-biyūlūjiyy/ |
| biography {n} (personal life story) | :: سيرة {f} /sīra/, ترجمة الحياة {f} /tarjamatu l-ḥayāti/ |
| biohazard {n} (biological risk) | :: خطر بيولوجي |
| biologic {adj} (biological) SEE: biological | :: |
| biological {n} (of biology) | :: بيولوجي |
| biologist {n} (student of biology; one versed in the science of biology) | :: أحيائي {m} /ʾaḥyāʾiyy/ |
| biology {n} (study of living matter) | :: علم الأحياء {m} /ʿilm al-ʾaḥyāʾ/, بيولوجيا {f} /biyulūjiyā/ |
| biomedicine {n} (a branch of medical science) | :: الطب الحيوي /aṭ-ṭibb al-ḥayawiyy/ |
| bioscience {n} (sciences dealing with living organisms) | :: علوم الحياة |
| biotic {adj} (of, pertaining to, or produced by life or living organisms) | :: حيوي |
| bipolar disorder {n} (psychiatric diagnostic category) | :: اضطراب ثنائي القطب |
| birch {n} (tree) | :: بتولا {f} /batūlā/ |
| bird {n} (animal) | :: طائر {m} /ṭāʾir/, عصفور {m} /ʿuṣfūr/ |
| birdie {n} (badminton: shuttlecock) SEE: shuttlecock | :: |
| birdlime {n} (serving of a prison sentence) SEE: time | :: |
| bird of prey {n} (carnivorous bird) | :: طير جارح /ṭayr jāriḥ/ |
| birds of a feather flock together {proverb} (people of similar character, etc. tend to associate) | :: الطيور على أشكالها تقع /aṭ-ṭuyūru ʿalā ʾaškālihā taqaʿu/ (birds stumble upon their kinds) |
| birds of the feather flock together {proverb} (birds of a feather flock together) SEE: birds of a feather flock together | :: |
| Birmingham {prop} (city and borough in England) | :: برمنغهام {m} /barminghām/ |
| biro {n} (ballpoint pen) SEE: ballpoint pen | :: |
| Birobidzhan {prop} (city in Russia) | :: بيروبيجان {m} /birubijān/ |
| birth {n} (process of childbearing; beginning of life) | :: ولادة {f} /wilāda/, مولد {m} /mawlid/, ميلاد {m} /mīlād/, تولد {m} /tawallud/ |
| birth {n} (beginning or start; a point of origin) | :: ولادة {f} /wilāda/, بداية {f} |
| birth {v} (to give birth (to)) | :: ولد /walada/, وضع /waḍaʿa/ |
| birth certificate {n} (official document certifying the details of a person's birth) | :: شهادة ميلاد {f} /šahāda(t) mīlād/ |
| birth control {n} (voluntary control of the number of children conceived) | :: تحديد النسل {m} /taḥdīd an-nasl/ |
| birthdate {n} (date of birth) SEE: date of birth | :: |
| birthday {n} (anniversary) | :: عيد ميلاد {m} /ʿīdu mīlādin/ |
| birthday cake {n} (a cake made to celebrate a birthday) | :: كعكة عيد ميلاد {f} /kaʿkat ʿīd mīlād/ |
| birthday party {n} (a party held to celebrate a birthday) | :: حفلة عيد ميلاد {f} /ḥaflat ʿīd mīlād/ |
| birthmark {n} (a mark on the skin formed before birth) | :: وحمة {f} /waḥma/ |
| birthplace {n} (location where a person is born) | :: مكان الميلاد {m} /makān al-mīlād/, مسقط الرأس {m} /masqaṭ ar-raʾs/ |
| birthwort {n} (Aristolochia) | :: زراوند {m} /zarāwand/ |
| biryani {n} (dish of spiced rice) | :: برياني {m} /biryānī/ |
| biscuit {n} (small, flat baked good, see also: cookie; cracker) | :: بسكويت {m} /baskawīt/ |
| bisector {n} (A line or curve that bisects or divides a line segment, angle, or other figure into two equal parts) | :: منصف {m} /munaṣṣif/, مقسم {m} /muqassim/ |
| bisexual {adj} (hermaphrodite) SEE: hermaphrodite | :: |
| Bishkek {prop} (capital of Kyrgyzstan) | :: بشكيك {f} /biškīk/ |
| Bishnupriya Manipuri {prop} (language) | :: بيشنوبريا مانيبورية |
| bishop {n} (church official, supervisor of priests and congregations) | :: أسقف /ʾusquf/ |
| bishop {n} (chess piece) | :: فيل {m} /fīl/ |
| bismuth {n} (chemical element) | :: بزموث {m} /bizmūṯ/ |
| bison {n} (wild ox, Bison bonasus) | :: بيسون {m} /bīsūn/ |
| Bissau {prop} (capital of Guinea-Bissau) | :: بيساو {m} /bisaw/ |
| bissextile {n} (leap year) SEE: leap year | :: |
| bissextile year {n} (year with an extra day) SEE: leap year | :: |
| bit {n} (coin of a specified value) SEE: coin | :: |
| bitch {n} (female canine) | :: ثعلبة /ṯaʿlaba/ |
| bitch {n} (complaint) SEE: complaint | :: |
| bitch {n} (playful variation on dog (sense "man")) SEE: dog | :: |
| bitch out {v} (to complain) SEE: bitch | :: |
| bite {v} (to cut into by clamping the teeth) | :: قضم /qaḍama/ |
| bite {v} (to hold something by clamping one’s teeth) | :: عض /ʿaḍḍa/ |
| bite off more than one can chew {v} (To try to do too much) | :: يقضم أكثر مما يستطيع مضغه {m} /yaqḍumu ʾakṯar mimmā yastṭīʿu maḍḡahu/ |
| biting {n} (An occurrence of a bite) | :: عض /ʿaḍḍ/ |
| biting {adj} (causing a stinging sensation) | :: قارس /qāris/ |
| biting {adj} (cutting or incisive) | :: لاذع /lāḏiʿ/, جارح /jāriḥ/ |
| biting {adj} (tending to bite) | :: لاسع /lāsiʿ/ |
| bitter {adj} (having an acrid taste) | :: مر /murr/ |
| bitter {adj} (harsh, piercing or stinging) | :: أليم /ʾalīm/ |
| bitter {adj} (hateful or hostile) | :: مقيت /maqīt/, ممقوت /mamqūt/ |
| bitter cucumber {n} (colocynth) SEE: colocynth | :: |
| bitter melon {n} (plant Momordica charantia) | :: قاوون {m} /qāwūn/ |
| bitter melon {n} (fruit of Momordica charantia) | :: قاوون {m} /qāwūn/ |
| bitter orange {n} (fruit) | :: نارنج {m} /nārinj/ |
| bittersweet {adj} (both bitter and sweet) | :: حلو ومر {m} /ḥulw wamurr/, حلوة ومرة {f} /ḥulwa(t) wamurra/ |
| bittersweet {adj} (expressing contrasting emotions of pain and pleasure) | :: حلو ومر /ḥulw wamurr/, حلوة ومرة {f} /ḥulwa(t) wamurra/ |
| bitter vetch {n} (Vicia ervilia) | :: كرسنة {f} /karsanna/ |
| Bizerte {prop} (city in Tunisia) | :: بنزرت |
| blab {n} (gossip) SEE: gossip | :: |
| blabbermouth {n} (chatterbox) SEE: chatterbox | :: |
| black {v} (to blacken) SEE: blacken | :: |
| black {adj} (absorbing all light) | :: أسود {m} /ʾaswad/, سوداء {f} /sawdāʾ/, سود {p} /sūd/ |
| black {adj} (relating to people with dark skin) | :: زنجي {m} /zinjiyy/, زنجي {m} /zanjiyy/, أسود {m} /ʾaswad/, حامي {m} /ḥāmiyy/ |
| black {adj} (bad; evil) | :: أسود /ʾaswad/ |
| black {n} (colour/color) | :: أسود {m} /ʾaswad/ |
| black {n} (dark-skinned person) | :: زنجي {m} /zinjiyy/, زنجي {m} /zanjiyy/, أسود {m} /ʾaswad/, سوداء {f} /sawdāʾ/ |
| blackberry {n} (shrub) | :: عليق {m} /ʿullayq/ , باطس {m} /bāṭus/ |
| blackberry {n} (fruit) | :: توت العليق {m} /tūt al-ʿullayq/ , باطس {m} /bāṭus/ |
| BlackBerry {n} (device (transliterations)) | :: بلاك بيري {m} /blāk birī/, بلاك بيري {m} /blak berī/ |
| black-bibbed tit {n} (Poecile hypermelaenus) | :: قرقف أسود الصدر |
| blackboard {n} (a surface that can be written upon with chalk) | :: سبورة {f} /sabūra/, لوح {m} /lawḥ/ |
| black box {n} (recorders in an aircraft) | :: صندوق أسود {m} /ṣundūq ʾaswad/ |
| black box {n} (theoretical construct or device) | :: صندوق أسود {m} /ṣundūq ʾaswad/ |
| black caraway {n} (Nigella sativa, see also: nigella) | :: شونيز {m} /šūnīz/, كمون أسود {m} /kammūn ʾaswad/ |
| black caraway {n} (spice) | :: شونيز {m} /šūnīz/, حبة سوداء {m} /ḥabbatu sawdāʾu/, كمون أسود {m} /kammūn ʾaswad/, قزح {m} /qizḥ/ |
| black cat {n} (Martes pennanti) SEE: fisher | :: |
| black cat {n} (black-furred cat) | :: القطة السوداء |
| black coffee {n} (coffee served without cream or milk) | :: قهوة سوداء {f} /qahwa sawdāʾ/ |
| black-crowned night heron {n} (Nycticorax nycticorax) | :: غراب الليل أسود التاج /ḡurāb al-layl ʾaswad at-tāj/ |
| black cumin {n} (Nigella sativa) SEE: nigella | :: |
| Black Death {prop} (14th century pandemic outbreak) | :: موت أسود {m} /mawt ʾaswad/ |
| black elder {n} (Sambucus nigra) SEE: elder | :: |
| blacken {v} (make black) | :: سود /sawwada/ |
| blacken {v} (become black) | :: اسود /iswadda/ |
| black eye {n} (bruised eye) | :: عين سوداء {f} /ʿayn sawdāʾ/ |
| black-eyed pea {n} (cowpea plant Vigna unguiculata or Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata) | :: لوبياء {f} /lūbiyāʾ/, لوبيا {f} /lūbiyā/, دجر {m} /dijr/ |
| black-eyed pea {n} (cowpea bean, the produce of the aforementioned plant) | :: لوبياء {f} /lūbiyāʾ/, لوبيا {f} /lūbiyā/, دجر {m} /dijr/ |
| Black Forest {prop} (German forest and mountain range) | :: الغابة السوداء {f} /al-ḡāba(t) as-sawdāʾ/ |
| Black Forest gâteau {n} (type of gâteau originating in the Black Forest region of Germany) | :: كعكة البلاك فورست {f} /kaʿkat al-blak fōrist/ |
| blackguard {n} (scoundrel) SEE: scoundrel | :: |
| blackhead {n} (skin blemish) | :: بثور سوداء {f-p} /buṯūr sawdāʾ/, رؤوس سوداء {f-p} /ruʾūs sawdāʾ/ |
| black-headed gull {n} (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) | :: نورس اسود الرأس /nawras iswadda ar-raʾs/ |
| black hole {n} (celestial body) | :: ثقب أسود {m} /ṯuqb ʾaswad/ |
| black ice {n} (invisible film of ice) | :: جليد أسود {m} /jalīd ʾaswad/ |
| blacklist {n} (list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned) | :: قائمة سوداء {f} /qāʾima sawdāʾ/ |
| black locust {n} (Robinia pseudoacacia) | :: شجرة الجراد {f} /šajaratu l-jarādi/, سنط كاذب {m} /sanṭun kāḏibun/ |
| black magic {n} (magic derived from evil forces) | :: سحر أسود {m} /siḥr ʾaswad/ |
| blackmail {n} (extortion of money by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure) | :: ابتزاز {m} /ibtizāz/ |
| blackmail {v} (to extort money) | :: ابتزاز /ibtizāza/ |
| black market {n} (trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing or price controls) | :: سوق سوداء {f} /sūq sawdāʾ/ |
| blackness {n} (state or quality of being black) | :: سواد {m} /sawād/ |
| black nightshade {n} (Solanum nigrum) | :: مغد أسود {m} /maḡd ʾaswad/, عنب الذئب {m} /ʿinab aḏ-ḏiʾb/, عنب الثعلب {m} /ʿinab aṯ-ṯaʿlab/ |
| blackout {n} (a temporary loss of consciousness) | :: غشية {f} /ḡašya/ |
| blackout {n} (the mandatory blinding of all light) | :: تعتيم /taʿtīm/ |
| black pepper {n} (spice) | :: فلفل أسود {m} /filfil ʾaswad/ |
| black rhinoceros {n} (Diceros bicornis) | :: وحيد القرن الأسود |
| Black Sea {prop} (an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Asia Minor) | :: البحر الأسود {m} /al-baḥr al-ʾaswad/ |
| blackseed {n} (Nigella sativa) SEE: nigella | :: |
| blackshirt {n} (member of a fascist party) SEE: fascist | :: |
| blacksmith {n} (iron forger, see also: smith) | :: حداد {m} /ḥaddād/, قين {m} /qayn/ |
| black tea {n} (tea leaves which have been "fermented") | :: شاي أسود {m} /šāy ʾaswad/ |
| blackthorn {n} (Prunus spinosa) | :: برقوق شائك {m} /barqūq šāʾik/, برقوق السياج {m} /barqūq as-siyāj/, خوخ شائك {m} /ḵawḵ šāʾik/, خوخ السياج {m} /ḵawḵ as-siyāj/, إجاص شائك {m} /ʾijjāṣ šāʾik/, إجاص السياج {m} /ʾijjāṣ as-siyāj/; Andalusi Arabic: أرنيون {m} /ʾaranyūn/ |
| bladder {n} (flexible sac in zoology) | :: حويصلة {f} /ḥuwayṣila/ |
| bladder {n} (urinary bladder) SEE: urinary bladder | :: |
| bladder cherry {n} (Physalis alkekengi) | :: كاكنج {m} /kākinj/ |
| blade {n} (sharp-edged or pointed working end of a tool or utensil) | :: شفرة {f} /šafra/ |
| Blagoevgrad {prop} (town in Bulgaria) | :: بلاغويفغراد {m} /blaghwyfghrad/ |
| Blagoveshchensk {prop} (city in Siberia) | :: بلاغوفيشتشينسك /blaḡufištšinsk/ |
| blame {v} (place blame upon) | :: لام /lāma/ |
| blame {n} (censure) SEE: censure | :: |
| blame {n} (responsibility) SEE: responsibility | :: |
| blame {n} (culpability) SEE: culpability | :: |
| blameworthiness {n} (culpability) SEE: culpability | :: |
| blank {adj} (free from writing, printing or marks) | :: خال /ḵālin/ , الخالي /al-ḵālī/ , فارغ /fāriḡ/ |
| blanket {n} (fabric) | :: لحاف {m} /liḥāf/ |
| blaspheme {v} (to speak against God or religious doctrine) | :: جدف على /jaddaf ʿalā/ |
| blasphemy {n} (Irreverence toward something sacred) | :: تجديف {m} /tajdīf/ |
| blather {v} (to talk rapidly without making much sense) | :: بق /baqqa/ |
| blaze {n} (fast-burning fire) | :: سعيرا {m} /saʿīrā/ |
| bleach {v} (to treat with bleach) | :: بيض /bayyaḍa/ |
| bleach {n} (chemical) | :: مادة تبييض {f} /mādda tabyīḍ/ |
| bleed {v} (lose blood) | :: نزف /nazafa/ |
| bleeding {n} (the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel) | :: نزيف {m} /nazīf/ |
| blend {n} (in linguistics) SEE: portmanteau word | :: |
| blender {n} (machine) | :: خلاط /ḵallāṭ/ |
| bless {v} (confer blessing on) | :: بارك /bāraka/ |
| blessed {adj} (having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing) | :: مبارك /mubārak/ |
| blessing {n} (divine or supernatural aid or reward) | :: بركة {f} /baraka/, نعمة {f} /naʿma/ |
| bless you {interj} (said to somebody who has sneezed) | :: صحة /ṣiḥḥa/ (health), الحمد لله /al-ḥamdu li-llāh/ (praise God), يرحمكم الله /yarḥamkum allāh/ ((may) Allah have mercy on you), يرحمكم /yarḥamkum/ (mercy on you) |
| bless you {interj} (short for "God bless you") SEE: God bless you | :: |
| Blida {prop} | :: البليدة /al-bulayda/ |
| blimp {n} (airship) | :: منطاد ذو محرك /munṭād ḏū muḥarrik/ |
| blind {adj} (unable to see) | :: أعمى {m} /ʾaʿmā/, عمياء {f} /ʿamyāʾ/, كفيف /kafīf/ |
| blind {v} (make temporarily or permanently blind) | :: أعمى /ʾaʿmā/ |
| blind alley {n} (course of inquiry) SEE: impasse | :: |
| blindness {n} (condition of being blind) | :: عمى {m} /ʿaman/ |
| blink {v} (to close and reopen both eyes quickly) | :: رمش /ramaša/ |
| blink {n} (The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again) | :: رمشة {f} /ramša/ |
| bliss {n} (perfect happiness) | :: نعيم {m} /naʿīm/ |
| blister {n} (bubble on the skin) | :: بطباطة {f} /baṭbāṭa/, نفطة {f} /nafṭa/ |
| blitzkrieg {n} (fast military offensive) | :: حرب خاطفة {f} /ḥarb ḵāṭifa/ |
| blizzard {n} (severe snowstorm) | :: عاصفة ثلجية {f} /ʿāṣifa ṯaljiyya/, دمق {m} /damaq/ |
| bloc {n} (group of voters or politicians) | :: كتلة {f} /kutla/ |
| bloc {n} (group of countries) | :: كتلة {f} /kutla/ |
| block {n} (substantial often approximately cuboid piece) | :: طابوقة {f} /ṭābūqa/ |
| block {n} (solitary confinement) SEE: solitary confinement | :: |
| blockade {n} (the isolation of something) | :: حصار {m} /ḥiṣār/ |
| block and tackle {n} (system of several pulleys) | :: محل {m} /muḥl/, محالة {f} /maḥāla/ |
| blockhouse {n} (a sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports) | :: حصن /ḥiṣn/ |
| blog {n} (a personal or corporate website) | :: مدونة إلكترونية {f} /mudawwana ʾiliktrūniyya/, مدونة {f} /mudawwana/, بلوغ {m} /blūḡ/, بلوج {m} /blūg/, بلوق {m} /blūq/ |
| Blois {prop} (city in Centre Region, France) | :: بلوة /bluwa/ |
| bloke {n} (man) | :: رجل /rajul/ |
| blond {adj} (of a pale golden colour) | :: أشقر /ʾašqar/, شقراء {f} /šaqrāʾ/ |
| blond {adj} (having blond hair) | :: أشقر {m} /ʾašqar/, شقراء {f} /šaqrāʾ/, شقر {p} /šuqr/ |
| blonde {n} (blond) SEE: blond | :: |
| blonde {adj} (blond) SEE: blond | :: |
| blood {n} (vital liquid flowing in animal bodies) | :: دماء {p} /dimāʾ/, دم {m} /dam/ |
| blood {n} | :: دماء {p} /dimāʾ/, دم {m} /dam/ |
| bloodbath {n} (indiscriminate killing or slaughter) | :: مذبحة {f} /maḏbaḥa/ |
| blood cell {n} (any of the cells normally found in the blood) | :: خلية دم {f} /ḵaliyyat dam/, خلية دموية {f} /ḵaliyya damawiyya/ |
| blood clot {n} | :: خثرة {f} /ḵuṯra/, جلطة {f} /julṭa/ |
| blood corpuscle {n} (blood cell) SEE: blood cell | :: |
| blood group {n} (blood type) SEE: blood type | :: |
| blood money {n} (money paid to the family of someone killed) SEE: wergeld | :: |
| blood pressure {n} (pressure exerted by the blood against the walls of the arteries and veins) | :: ضغط الدم {m} /ḍaḡṭ ad-damm/ |
| blood relation {n} (person) | :: صلة الدم الواحد {f} /ṣilat al-dam al-wāḥid/ |
| blood relative {n} (blood relation) SEE: blood relation | :: |
| bloodshed {n} (shedding or spilling of blood) | :: سفك الدماء {m} /safk ad-dimāʾ/, إراقة الدم {f} /ʾirāqat ad-dam/ |
| bloodshed {n} (carnage, destruction of life, slaughter) | :: سفك الدماء {m} /safk ad-dimāʾ/ |
| bloodshot {adj} (reddened and inflamed) | :: قرمزي /qirmiziyy/ |
| bloodsucker {n} (vampire) SEE: vampire | :: |
| bloodsucker {n} (parasite) SEE: parasite | :: |
| blood test {n} (a serologic analysis of a sample of blood) | :: تحليل الدم {m} /taḥlīl ad-damm/ |
| blood transfusion {n} (taking blood from one and giving it to another individual) | :: نقل دم {m} /naql dam/ |
| blood type {n} (blood classification) | :: فصيلة دم /faṣīla(t) dam/ |
| blood vessel {n} (component of the circulatory system that carries blood) | :: وعاء دموي {m} /wiʿāʾ damawiyy/ |
| blood work {n} (blood test) SEE: blood test | :: |
| bloom {n} (flower) SEE: flower | :: |
| bloom {n} (blossom) SEE: blossom | :: |
| bloom {v} (open its blooms) SEE: blossom | :: |
| blossom {n} (flowers on trees) | :: زهرة {f} /zahra/ |
| blossom {v} (have or open into blossoms) | :: زهر /zahara/ |
| blotto {adj} ((very) drunk or intoxicated) SEE: drunk | :: |
| blotto {n} (reagent used to block protein binding sites for laboratory techniques) | :: بلوتو |
| blouse {n} (an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt) | :: بلوزة {f} /balūza/, بلوزة {f} /blūza/ |
| blow {v} (to produce an air current) | :: نفخ /nafaḵa/ |
| blow {n} (act of striking or hitting) | :: ضربة {f} /ḍarba/ |
| blow {n} (cocaine) SEE: snow | :: |
| blow {v} (blossom) SEE: blossom | :: |
| blow-dryer {n} (an electrical device used for drying hair) SEE: hairdryer | :: |
| blower {n} (telephone) SEE: telephone | :: |
| blowfish {n} (any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe) | :: أسماك بالون {m} /ʾasmāk bālūn/ |
| blow one's nose {v} (to expel mucus from nose) | :: امتخط /imtaḵaṭa/, مخط /maḵaṭa/, تمخط /tamaḵḵaṭa/ |
| bludgeon {n} (short heavy club) | :: هراوة {f} /hirāwa/ |
| bludgeon {v} (to club, hit with a bludgeon) | :: يهري {m} /yahrī/ |
| blue {adj} (blue-colored, see also: dark blue; light blue) | :: أزرق {m} /ʾazraq/, زرقاء {f} /zarqāʾ/, زرق {p} /zurq/ |
| blue {n} (colour) | :: أزرق /ʾazraq/ |
| blue {n} (argument) SEE: argument | :: |
| blue {n} (blue uniform) SEE: blues | :: |
| blue {n} (sky, literally or figuratively) SEE: sky | :: |
| Bluebeard {prop} (the famous fairy tale) | :: اللحية الزرقاء {f} /al-liḥya z-zarqāʾ/ |
| bluebird {n} (bird of Sialia) | :: عصفور أزرق {m} /ʿuṣfūr ʾazraq/ |
| bluebottle {n} (man-of-war) SEE: man-of-war | :: |
| blue cheese {n} (kind of cheese with bluish mold) | :: جبنة زرقاء {f} /jubna zarqāʾ/ |
| blue line {n} (ice hockey: line) | :: خط أزرق {m} /ḵaṭṭ ʾazraq/ |
| blueness {n} (quality or characteristic of being blue) | :: زرقة {f} /zurqa/ |
| Blue Nile {prop} (One of the two main tributaries of the River Nile) | :: النيل الأزرق {m} /an-nīl al-ʾazraq/ |
| blueprint {n} (print produced by this process) | :: مخطط {m} /muḵaṭṭaṭ/ |
| blues {n} (musical form) | :: بلوز {m} /blūz/, بلوز {m} /balūz/ |
| blue screen of death {n} (screen indicating a system error) | :: شاشة الموت الزرقاء {f} /šāšat al-mawt az-zarqāʾ/ |
| bluestone {n} (slate) SEE: slate | :: |
| bluestone {n} (basalt) SEE: basalt | :: |
| blue straggler {n} (unusually hot and blue star) | :: نجوم زرقاء شاردة {m} |
| bluethroat {n} (bird) | :: هزار أزرق الزور {m} /hazār ʾazraq az-zawr/, أزرق الحلق {m} /ʾazraq al-ḥalq/ |
| blue tit {n} (Cyanistes caeruleus) | :: قرقف أزرق |
| bluetongue {n} (disease of ruminants) | :: مرض اللسان الأزرق {m} /maraḍ al-lisān al-ʾazraq/ |
| Bluetooth {prop} (personal area wireless network) | :: بلوتوث {m} /bulūtūṯ/, بلوتوث {m} /blūtūṯ/ |
| blunt {adj} (having a thick edge or point, not sharp) | :: كليل /kalīl/ |
| Blu-ray {n} (format) | :: بلوراي /blūrāy/ |
| Bluto {prop} (the antagonist of Popeye) | :: بلوتو {m} /blūtō/ |
| BMW {prop} (colloquial names and pronunciations, apart from the romanised "BMW") | :: بي إم دبليو {m} /bī ʾem dabulyū/, بي إم دابليو {m} /bī ʾem dābulyū/ |
| boar {n} (wild boar) SEE: wild boar | :: |
| boar {n} (male pig) | :: خنزير {m} /ḵinzīr/ |
| board {n} (long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material) | :: لوحة {f} /lawḥa/, خشبة {f} /ḵašaba/ |
| board {n} (short for blackboard, whiteboard, etc.) | :: لوحة {f} /lawḥa/, لوح {m} /lawḥ/ |
| board {n} (managing committee) | :: مجلس {m} /majlis/ |
| board {v} (to step or climb onto) | :: استقل /istaqalla/ |
| boarding pass {n} (a document to board a plane, ship, etc.) | :: إذن عبور {m} /ʾiḏn ʿubūr/, بطاقة صعود {f} /biṭāqat ṣuʿūd/, بطاقة صعود الطائرة {f} /biṭāqat ṣuʿūd aṭ-ṭāʾira/, بطاقة المغادرة /biṭāqat al-muḡādara/ |
| boarding school {n} (school which provides board and lodging) | :: مدرسة داخلية {f} /madrasa dāḵiliyya/ |
| board of directors {n} (group of people elected by stockholders) | :: مجلس إدارة {m} /majlis ʾidāra/ |
| boast {v} (to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself) | :: تباهى /tabāhā/ |
| boat {n} (water craft) | :: قارب {m} /qārib/, مركب {m} /markab/, زورق {m} /zawraq/ |
| Boaz {prop} (Biblical character) | :: بوعز |
| bob {n} (bobber) SEE: float | :: |
| bobber {n} (buoyant fishing device) SEE: float | :: |
| bobbin {n} (spool around which wire or thread is coiled) | :: بكرة {f} /bakara/ |
| bobcat {n} (North American wild cat) | :: وشق أحمر |
| bobolink {n} (songbird) | :: ممراح |
| Boche {n} (German) SEE: German | :: |
| bodhisattva {n} (bodhisattva) | :: بوديساتفا {f} /bodisatvā/ |
| bodily {adj} (relating to the body) | :: جسدي /jasadiyy/ |
| bodkin {n} (dagger) SEE: dagger | :: |
| body {n} (physical structure of a human or animal) | :: بدن {m} /badan/, جسم {m} /jism/, جسد {m} /jasad/ |
| body {n} (corpse) | :: جثة {f} /juṯṯa/, جيفة {f} /jīfa/ |
| body {n} | :: جسم, جسد |
| bodybuilding {n} (sport of muscle development) | :: كمال أجسام {m} /kamāl ʾajsām/ |
| bodyguard {n} (person responsible for protecting an individual) | :: حرس خاص {m} /ḥaras ḵāṣṣ/ |
| body odour {n} (unpleasant smell on a perons's body) | :: رائحة الجسم {f} |
| Boeing {prop} (An American aerospace company) | :: بوينغ {m} /būyinḡ/ |
| bogatyr {n} (medieval Russian heroic warrior, see also: bahadur) | :: بوغاتير {m} /būḡātīr/ |
| Bogdania {prop} (the territory between Transylvania and the Dniester, see also: Moldavia) | :: بغدان /buḡdān/ |
| bogey {n} (booger) SEE: booger | :: |
| bogie {n} (cigarette) SEE: cigarette | :: |
| bogie {n} (ghost) SEE: ghost | :: |
| bogie {n} (booger) SEE: booger | :: |
| Bogotá {prop} (Bogota) SEE: Bogota | :: |
| Bogota {prop} (capital of Colombia) | :: بوغوتا {f} /būḡūtā/, بوجوتا {f} /bōgōtā/ |
| bogus {adj} (counterfeit or fake; not genuine) | :: زائف /zāʾif/, كاذب /kāḏib/, مزور /muzawwar/ |
| Bohemia {prop} (The region of the Czech Republic) | :: بوهيميا {f} /būhīmiyā/ |
| bohemium {n} (rhenium) SEE: rhenium | :: |
| bohrium {n} (chemical element) | :: بوريوم {m} /buryum/ |
| boil {n} (accumulation of pus) | :: دمل {m} /dummal/, خراج {m} /ḵurāj/, ثؤلول {m} /ṯuʾlūl/ |
| boil {v} (heat (a liquid) until it begins to turn into a gas) | :: غلى /ḡalā/ |
| boil {v} (cook in boiling water) | :: غلى /ḡallā/ |
| boiled {adj} (angry) SEE: angry | :: |
| boiled {adj} (drunk) SEE: drunk | :: |
| boiled egg {n} (boiled egg (generic)) | :: بيضة مسلوقة {f} /bayḍa maslūqa/, بيض مسلوق {m} /bayḍ maslūq/ |
| boiled egg {n} | :: بيضة مسلوقة {f} /bayḍa maslūqa/ (singulative), بيض مسلوق {m} /bayḍ maslūq/ (collective) |
| boiled sweet {n} (hard sweet) SEE: hard candy | :: |
| boiler {n} (device for heating circulating water) | :: غلاية {f} /ḡallāya/ |
| bok choy {n} (Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa chinensis) | :: كرنب صيني {m} /kurunb ṣīniyy/, بوك تشوي {m} /buk tšuy/ |
| bokeh {n} (subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image) | :: بوكيه |
| Bolivia {prop} (country in South America) | :: بوليفيا {f} /būlīfiyā/ |
| Bollywood {prop} (Indian film industry) | :: بوليوود {m} /buliwūd/ |
| Bologna {prop} (city) | :: بولونيا {f} /būlūnyā/ |
| bolometer {n} (a device for measuring the energy of electromagnetic radiation) | :: مقياس الإشعاع الحراري |
| Bolshevik {n} (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) | :: بلشفيك {m} /bulšifīk/, بلشفي {m} /bulšifiyy/ |
| bolt {n} (metal fastener) | :: مصمال {m} /miṣmāl/ |
| bomb {n} (device filled with explosives) | :: قنبلة {f} /qunbula/ |
| bomb {v} (attack with bombs) | :: قنبل /qanbala/ |
| bomb {n} (success) SEE: success | :: |
| Bombay {n} (Mumbai) SEE: Mumbai | :: |
| bomber {n} (aircraft) | :: قاذفة قنابل {f} /qāḏifat qanābil/ |
| bombing {n} (action of dropping bombs from the air) | :: تفجير {m} /tafjīr/, قصف {m} /qaṣf/ |
| bona fide {adj} (done in good faith) | :: عن حسن نية |
| Bonaire {prop} (island) | :: بونير /bunir/ |
| Bonapartism {n} (pratices and ideology of Napoleon Bonaparte) | :: بونابرتية {f} |
| bon appétit {phrase} (used to wish someone enjoyment of the meal they are about to eat) | :: شهية طيبة /šahya(t) ṭayyiba/, بالصحة والعافية /bi-ṣ-ṣiḥḥa(t) wālʿāfiya/, بالهناء والشفاء /bi-l-hanāʾi waš-šifāʾ/ |
| bondsman {n} (someone who signs a bond that states that they have taken responsibility for someone else's obligations) | :: وكيل (عام). كفيل {m} /wakeel (aam). kafeel/ |
| bone {n} (material) | :: عظم {m} /ʿaẓm/ |
| bone {n} (component of a skeleton) | :: عظم {m} /ʿaẓm/, عظمة {f} /ʿaẓma/ |
| bonefolder {n} (A dull-edged hand tool used to fold and crease) | :: مطوى {m} /miṭwan/ |
| bone marrow {n} (bone marrow) | :: نقي العظم {m} /niqy al-ʿaẓm/, نخاع العظم {m} /nuḵāʿ al-ʿaẓm/, نقي {m} /niqy/ |
| boner {n} (erect penis) | :: انتصاب /intiṣāb/ |
| boner {n} (rigid state of penis or clitoris) SEE: erection | :: |
| bonjour {interj} (hello) SEE: hello | :: |
| Bonn {prop} (a city in Germany) | :: بون {m} /bun/ |
| bonnet {n} (type of women's and children's hat) | :: غطاء الرأس {m} /ḡiṭāʾ ar-raʾs/, قلنسوة {f} /qalansuwa/, كلوتة {f} /kallawta/ |
| bonnet {n} (cover over the engine of a motor car) | :: غطاء المحرك {m} /ḡiṭāʾ al-muḥarrik/ |
| bonnet {n} (second stomach of a ruminant) SEE: reticulum | :: |
| bonsai {v} (a miniaturized tree or plant) | :: بونساي {m} /būnsāy/, بونساي {m} /bonsay/ |
| bonus {n} (extra amount of money given as a premium) | :: علاوة {f} /ʿilāwa/ |
| bon voyage {interj} (wish of good journey) | :: رحلة سعيدة /riḥla saʿīda/, رحلة موفقة /riḥla muwaffaqa/ |
| boob {n} (breast (colloquial)) | :: ثدي {m} /ṯady/ |
| booby trap {n} (antipersonnel device deliberately hidden or disguised as a harmless object) | :: شرك {m} /šarak/, فخ {m} /faḵḵ/ |
| booger {n} (a piece of solid or semi-solid mucus) | :: وسخ الأنف {m} /wasaḵ al-ʾanf/ |
| book {n} (ebook) SEE: e-book | :: |
| book {n} (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material) | :: كتاب {m} /kitāb/, سفر {m} /sifr/ |
| book {n} (record of betting) | :: سجل /sijil/ |
| book {n} (usually in plural: records of the accounts of a business) | :: سجل /sijill/ |
| book {v} (to reserve) | :: حجز /ḥajaza/ |
| book {v} (to record the details of an offender) | :: يعاقب |
| bookcase {n} (furniture displaying books) | :: مكتبة {f} /maktaba/, خزانة الكتب {f} /ḵizānat al-kutub/ |
| bookkeeper {n} (person responsible for keeping records) | :: محاسب {m} /muḥāsib/, محاسبة {f} /muḥāsiba/ |
| booklet {n} (small book) | :: كتيب {m} /kutayyib/, كراسة /kurrāsa/ |
| Book of Mormon {prop} (one of the sacred works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) | :: كتاب المورمون /kitāb al-mūrmūn/ |
| Book of the Dead {prop} (ancient Egyptian funerary text) | :: كتاب الموتى /kitāb al-mawtā/ |
| bookshop {n} (shop that sells books) | :: مكتبة {f} /maktaba/ |
| Books of Moses {prop} (five books) | :: كتب موسى {m-p} /kutub mūsā/ |
| bookstore {n} (bookshop) SEE: bookshop | :: |
| boomerang {n} (flat curved airfoil) | :: بوميرانغ, بمرنغ, كيد |
| boot {n} (heavy shoe that covers part of the leg) | :: جزمة {f} /jazma/ |
| boot {n} (kick) SEE: kick | :: |
| boot {n} (luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car) SEE: trunk | :: |
| booth {n} (A small stall for the display and sale of goods) | :: كشك /kušk/ |
| booth {n} (An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person) | :: حجيرة /ḥujayra/, كابينة {f} /kābīna/ |
| bootstrap {v} (to load the operating system) SEE: boot | :: |
| boot up {v} (to start computer by bootstrap procedure) SEE: boot | :: |
| booty {n} (plunder) | :: مغانم {m} /maḡānim/ |
| bopomofo {prop} (Zhuyin fuhao) SEE: Zhuyin fuhao | :: |
| borage {n} (Borago officinalis) | :: حمحم {m} /ḥimḥim/ |
| borax {n} (crystalline salt) | :: بورق {m} /bawraq/ |
| Bordeaux {prop} (a city in France) | :: بوردو {f} /burdū/, برذال {f} /burḏal/ |
| bordello {n} (brothel) SEE: brothel | :: |
| border {n} (the outer edge of something) | :: حد {m} /ḥadd/, حدود {m-p} /ḥudūd/ |
| border {n} (the line or frontier area separating regions) | :: حد {m} /ḥadd/, حدود {n-p} /ḥudūd/ |
| bore {v} (to inspire boredom) | :: أمل /ʾamalla/ |
| boredom {n} (state of being bored) | :: ملل {m} /malall/ |
| boring {adj} (causing boredom) | :: ممل /mumill/, مضجر /muḍjir/ |
| Boris {prop} (male given name) | :: بوريس {m} /burīs/ |
| born {v} (be born) SEE: be born | :: |
| Borneo {prop} (island) | :: بورنيو {m} /būrniyū/ |
| boro {v} (borrow) SEE: borrow | :: |
| boron {n} (chemical element) | :: بورون {m} /borun/ |
| borrow {v} (receive temporarily) | :: استعار /istaʿāra/ |
| borrower {n} (one who borrows) | :: مستعير {m} /mustaʿīr/, مستعيرة {f} /mustaʿīra/ |
| borrowing {n} (loanword) SEE: loanword | :: |
| borscht {n} (beetroot soup) | :: برش {m} /borš/, برش {m} /borš/ |
| borzoi {n} (breed of dog) | :: بورزوي {m} /burzuy/ |
| Bosnia {prop} (short for 'Bosnia and Herzegovina') | :: البوسنة /al-būsna/ |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina {prop} (country on the Balkan peninsula) | :: البوسنة والهرسك {f} /al-būsna wa-l-harsak/ |
| Bosnian {adj} (of or pertaining to Bosnia) | :: بوسني /būsniyy/ |
| Bosnian {n} (the people) | :: بوسني {m} /būsniyy/, بوسنية {f} /būsniyya/ |
| Bosnian {n} (the standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian) | :: البوسنية {f} /al-būsniyya/ |
| bosom {n} (chest, breast) | :: ثدي {m} /ṯady/ |
| Bosphorus {prop} (a strait that passes through Istanbul) | :: مضيق بوسفور {m} /maḍīq busfūr/, البوسفور {m} /al-busfūr/ |
| Bosra {prop} (town in Syria) | :: بصرى /buṣrā/, بصرى الشام /buṣrā š-šām/ |
| boss {n} (supervisor) | :: رئيس {m} /raʾīs/, مدير {m} /mudīr/ |
| boss {n} (person in charge) | :: رئيس {m} /raʾīs/, مدير {m} /mudīr/ |
| Boston {prop} (city in Massachusetts) | :: بوسطن {m} /busṭun/ |
| bot {n} (robot) SEE: robot | :: |
| bot {n} (a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks) | :: بوت {m} /būt/, بوت {m} /bot/, روبوت {m} /robut/, روبوت {m} /rūbut/ |
| botanical garden {n} (a place where a variety of plants are grown for scientific reasons) | :: حديقة نباتية {f} /ḥadīqa nabātiyya/ |
| botanic garden {n} (botanical garden) SEE: botanical garden | :: |
| botany {n} (scientific study of plants) | :: علم النبات {m} /ʿilm an-nabāt/ |
| botfly {n} | :: ذبابة الخيل {f} |
| both {determiner} (each of two; one and the other) | :: كلا /kilā/ |
| both {conj} (both...and...) | :: كل من ... و ... /kullun min ... wa .../ |
| bother {v} (to annoy, disturb) | :: زعج /zaʿaja/ |
| bother {interj} (mild expression of annoyance/irritation) | :: يزعج /yazʿaj/, يضايق /yuḍāyiq/ |
| botheration {interj} (expression of annoyance) SEE: bother | :: |
| Botswana {prop} (Republic of Botswana) | :: بتسوانا {f} /butswānā/ |
| bottle {n} (container) | :: زجاجة {f} /zujāja/, قنينة {f} /qinnīna/ |
| bottle {v} (seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption) | :: عبأ في زجاجة /ʿabbaʾa fī zujāja/ |
| bottle {v} (feed (an infant) baby formula) | :: يرضع بواسطة زجاجة |
| bottle cap {n} (closure used to seal bottles) | :: غطاء زجاجة {m} /ḡiṭāʾ zujāja/, غطاء قارورة {m} /ḡiṭāʾ qārūra/ |
| bottle gourd {n} (calabash) SEE: calabash | :: |
| bottle opener {n} (device to open bottles) | :: فتاحة {f} /fattāḥa/, فتاحة زجاجات {f} /fattāḥat zujājāt/ |
| bottle shop {n} (liquor store) SEE: liquor store | :: |
| bottom {n} (abyss) SEE: abyss | :: |
| bottom {n} (lowest part) | :: قاع {m} /qāʿ/, قعر {m} /qaʿr/ |
| bottom {n} (gay sexual slang: penetrated partner in sex) | :: سالب {m} /sālib/ |
| bottom {n} (physics: bottom quark) SEE: bottom quark | :: |
| bottomless pit {n} (A pit with no visible (infinite) bottom) | :: هاوية {f} /hāwiya/ |
| bottomless pit {n} (hell) | :: هاوية {f} /hāwiya/ |
| bottom line {n} (summary or result) | :: حاصل الأمر {m} |
| bottom quark {n} (bottom quark) | :: كوارك قعري {m} /kuwark qaʿriyy/ |
| bouillabaisse {n} (mixture) SEE: mixture | :: |
| boundary {n} (dividing line or location between two areas) | :: حد {m} /ḥadd/ |
| bounty {n} (abundance or wealth) SEE: abundance | :: |
| bounty {n} (generosity) SEE: generosity | :: |
| bounty hunter {n} (person who catches criminals in return for a reward) | :: صائد الجوائز {m} /ṣāʾidu al-jawāʾiza/ |
| bouquet {n} (bunch of flowers) | :: باقة {f} /bāqa/ |
| bouquet {n} (scent of wine) | :: شذى {m} /šaḏan/, شذا {m} /šaḏan/ |
| bourdon {n} (bumblebee) SEE: bumblebee | :: |
| bourgeois {adj} (of or relating to the middle class) | :: برجوازي /burjuwāziyy/ |
| bourgeois {adj} (conventional, conservative and materialistic) | :: برجوازي /burjuwāziyy/ |
| bourgeois {adj} (of or relating to capitalist exploitation) | :: برجوازي /burjuwāziyy/ |
| bourgeoisie {n} (class) | :: برجوازية {f} /burjuwāziyya/ |
| Bournemouth {prop} (town in Dorset) | :: بورنموث /būranmūṯ/ |
| bourse {n} (stock exchange) SEE: stock exchange | :: |
| boustrophedon {n} (writing that is alternately right-to-left and left-to-right) | :: بطرفة /buṭrufa/ |
| bovine spongiform encephalopathy {n} (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) | :: جنون البقر {m} /junūn al-baqar/ |
| bow {n} (weapon used for shooting arrows) | :: قوس {m} /qaws/ |
| bow {n} (rod used for playing stringed instruments) | :: قوس {m} /qaws/ |
| bow {n} (type of knot with two loops) | :: انشوطة {f} /anšūṭa/ |
| bow {v} (to become bent) | :: انحنى /inḥanā/ |
| bow {v} (to bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference) | :: انحنى للتحية /inḥanā li-t-taḥiyya/, انحنى /inḥanā/, ركع /rakaʿa/ |
| bow and arrow {n} (weapon) | :: الرضوخ والسهم /alrrudukh walssahm/ |
| bowels {n} (intestines) | :: معى {m} /miʿan/ |
| bowl {n} (container for food) | :: زبدية {f} /zibdiyya/, سلطانية {f} /sulṭāniyya/ |
| bowler {n} (pitcher) SEE: pitcher | :: |
| bowling {n} (a game played by rolling a ball down an alley) | :: بولينج {m} /būling/ |
| bowman {n} (archer) SEE: archer | :: |
| bowstring {n} (string of an archer's bow) | :: وتر {m} /watar/ |
| bowtie {n} (necktie shaped like a bow) | :: ربطة عنق كفراشة {m} /rabṭat ʿunuq ka-farāša/ |
| box {n} (cuboid space; container) | :: صندوق {m} /ṣundūq/, علبة {f} /ʿulba/, تابوت {m} /tābūt/ |
| box {n} | :: صندوق {m} /ṣundūq/, علبة {f} /ʿulba/, لكمة {f} /lakma/, مقصورة {f} /maqṣūra/ |
| box {v} | :: تعليب /taʿlīb/, لكم /lakama/, لاكم /lākama/ |
| box {n} (shrub or tree of the genus Buxus) | :: شمشاد {m} /šamšād/, شمشير {m} /šamšīr/, شمشار {m} /šamšār/, عثق {m} /ʿaṯaq/, بقس {m} /buqs/ |
| box {n} (blow with the fist) | :: لكمة {f} /lakma/ |
| box {v} (to strike with the fists) | :: لكم /lakama/ |
| boxer {n} (participant in a boxing match) | :: ملاكم {m} /mulākim/ |
| Boxer {n} (participant in the Boxer Rebellion) | :: ملاكم {m} /mulākam/, ملاكمة {f} /mulākama/ |
| boxing {n} (the sport of boxing) | :: ملاكمة {f} /mulākama/ |
| Boxing Day {n} (the day after Christmas: 26 December) | :: يوم الصناديق {m} /yawm aṣ-ṣanādīq/, بوكسينج داي {m} /buksing dāy/ |
| boxthorn {n} (plant of the genus Lycium) SEE: wolfberry | :: |
| boy {n} (young male) | :: صبي {m} /ṣabiyy/, فتى {m} /fatan/, غلام {m} /ḡulām/ |
| boy {interj} (surprise or pleasure) | :: ياه /yāh/ |
| boycott {n} (the act of boycotting) | :: مقاطعة {f} /muqāṭaʿa/ |
| boyfriend {n} (male partner in a romantic relationship) | :: خليل {m} /ḵalīl/, رفيق {m} /rafīq/ |
| boyfriend {n} (male friend) | :: صديق {m} /ṣadīq/, رفيق {m} /rafīq/, زميل {m} /zamīl/ |
| bra {n} (brassiere) | :: حمالة صدر {f} /ḥammālat ṣadr/, مشد صدر {m} /mišadd ṣadr/ |
| brace {n} (system to correct crooked teeth) SEE: braces | :: |
| bracelet {n} (a band or chain worn around the wrist as jewelry or an ornament) | :: سوار {m} /siwār/ |
| braces {n} (handcuffs) SEE: handcuffs | :: |
| braces {n} (device for straightening teeth) | :: مقوم أسنان {m} /muqawwam ʾasnān/ |
| brachium {n} (upper arm) SEE: upper arm | :: |
| bracket {n} (generically any of "(", ")", "", "{", "}", "<" and ">") | :: قوس {m} /qaws/ |
| bracket {n} (round bracket) SEE: round bracket | :: |
| Bradford {prop} (town in West Yorkshire) | :: برادفورد {m} /bradfurd/ |
| brag {v} (to boast) | :: تباهى /tabāhā/ |
| brag {n} (boast) SEE: boast | :: |
| Bragança {prop} (city in the homonymous district of Portugal) | :: براغانزا {f} /brāḡānzā/ |
| brahmin {n} (caste) | :: برهمن {m} /birahman/ |
| braid {v} (to intertwine) | :: ضفر /ḍaffara/ |
| braid {n} (weave of three or more strands) | :: جديلة {f} /jadīla/, ضفيرة {f} /ḍafīra/ |
| braid {n} (hairstyle) | :: جديلة {f} /jadīla/, ضفيرة {f} /ḍafīra/ |
| brain {n} (organ) | :: دماغ {m} /dimāḡ/ |
| brain cancer {n} (cancer of the brain) | :: سرطان الدماغ {m} /saraṭān ad-dimāḡ/ |
| brain drain {n} (emigration of educated people) | :: هجرة الأدمغة {f} /hijra(t) al-ʾadmiḡa/, هجرة العقول {f} /hijra(t) al-ʿuqūl/ |
| brainpower {n} (mental ability) SEE: intelligence | :: |
| brain stem {n} (part of the brain that connects the spinal cord to the forebrain and cerebrum) | :: جذع الدماغ /jiḏʿ ad-dimāḡ/ |
| brainstorm {n} (brainstorming) SEE: brainstorming | :: |
| brainstorming {n} (method of problem solving) | :: عصف ذهني {m} /ʿaṣaf ḏihniyy/, قدح ذهني {m} /qadaḥ ḏihniyy/ |
| brainwash {v} (to affect one's mind) | :: غسل المخ /ḡasala l-muḵḵ/ |
| brain-washing {n} (form of indoctrination) | :: غسيل مخ {m} /ḡasīl muḵḵ/ |
| brake {n} (device used to slow or stop a vehicle) | :: فرملة {f} /faramala/, مكبح {m} /mikbaḥ/ |
| brake {v} (to operate brakes) | :: فرمل /farmala/, كبح /akabaḥ/ |
| bramble {n} (diverse Rubus shrubs) SEE: blackberry | :: |
| bramble {n} (any thorny shrub) SEE: thornbush | :: |
| brambling {n} (bird) | :: شرشور جبلي {m} /šuršūr jabaliyy/, عصفور زغاري {m} /ʿuṣfūr zaghary/ |
| bran {n} (outside layer of a grain) | :: نخالة {f} /nuḵāla/ |
| branch {n} (woody part of a tree arising from the trunk) | :: فرع {m} /farʿ/ |
| brand {n} (a specific product, service, or provider so distinguished) | :: ماركة {f} /mārka/ |
| brandish {v} (to move a weapon) | :: يلوح (بسلاح) مهددا |
| brandish {v} (to bear something with ostentatious show) | :: تلويح مهدد |
| Brandon {prop} (Transliterations of the surname) | :: براندون /brandun/ |
| brandy {n} (liquor) | :: براندي {m} /barandī/, براندي {m} /brandī/, كونياك {m} /kunyāk/, كونياك {m} /kunyak/ |
| Brasília {prop} (The capital of Brazil) | :: برازيليا {f} /brāzīliyā/ |
| brass {n} (alloy of copper and zinc) | :: شبه {m} /šabah/ |
| brassiere {n} (bra) SEE: bra | :: |
| brass knuckles {n} (weapon which reinforces the fist) | :: منافض مفصل |
| Bratislava {prop} (The capital of Slovakia) | :: براتسلافا {f} /buratislāfā/, براتيسلافا {f} /buratislāfā/ |
| brave {adj} (strong in the face of fear) | :: شجاع /šujāʿ/, جريء /jarīʾ/, جسور /jasūr/ |
| bravery {n} (being brave) | :: شجاعة {f} /šajāʿa/ |
| bravo {interj} (interjection) | :: برافو /brāvo/, برافو /berāvo/ |
| bray {v} (to make the cry of a donkey) | :: نهق /nahaqa/ |
| brazen bull {n} (ancient torture device consisting of a hollow brass bull where victims were imprisoned and burned to death) | :: ثور برونزي {m} /ṯawr brūnziyy/ |
| brazier {n} (An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) | :: مجمرة {f} /majmara/, منقل {m} /minqal/ |
| Brazil {prop} (Portuguese-speaking country in South America) | :: البرازيل {f} /al-barāzīl/ |
| Brazilian {adj} (pertaining to Brazil) | :: برازيلي /barāzīliyy/ |
| brazil nut {n} (tree) | :: جوز البرازيل {m} /jawz al-barāzīl/ |
| brazil nut {n} (nut) | :: جوز البرازيل {m} /jawz al-barāzīl/ |
| Brazzaville {prop} (the capital of the Republic of the Congo) | :: برازافيل {m} /brazavil/, برازافيل {m} /berazavil/ |
| bread {n} (baked dough made from cereals) | :: خبز {m} /ḵubz/ |
| bread {v} (to bread) | :: خبز /ḵabaza/ |
| breadbasket {n} (stomach) SEE: stomach | :: |
| breadmaker {n} (baker) SEE: baker | :: |
| breadstick {n} (slender loaf of crisp bread) | :: عود الخبز {m} /ʿūd al-ḵubz/ |
| breadth {n} (width) SEE: width | :: |
| breadwinner {n} (primary income-earner in a household) | :: معيل {m} /maʿīl/ |
| break {v} (intransitive: to separate into (to end up in) two or more pieces) | :: انكسر /inkasara/ |
| break {v} (transitive: to separate into (to cause to end up in) two or more pieces) | :: كسر /kasara/ |
| break {n} (rest or pause, usually from work) | :: استراحة {f} |
| breakable {adj} (fragile) SEE: fragile | :: |
| breakdown {n} (listing or categorization in great detail) | :: توزع {m} /tawazzuʿ/ |
| breakfast {n} (first meal of the day) | :: إفطار {m} /ʾifṭār/, فطور {m} /faṭūr/ |
| breakfast {v} (to eat the morning meal) | :: فطر /faṭara/ |
| breaking news {n} (news that just happened or is happening) | :: أخبار هامة /ʾaḵbār hāmma/, خبر عاجل {m} /ḵabar ʿājil/ |
| break one's fast {v} (archaic: to eat breakfast) | :: لتناول وجبة الفطور |
| breakup {n} (breakdown) SEE: breakdown | :: |
| bream {n} (Abramis brama) | :: سمك البريم /samak al-brīm/ |
| breast {n} (milk-producing organ) | :: ثدي {m} /ṯady/ |
| breast {n} (chest) | :: صدر {m} /ṣadr/ |
| breastbone {n} (the central narrow bone in the front of the chest) | :: قص {m} /qaṣṣ/ |
| breast cancer {n} (cancer of the breast) | :: سرطان الثدي {m} /saraṭān aṯ-ṯady/ |
| breastfeed {v} (feed a baby milk via the breasts) | :: أرضع /ʾarḍaʿa/ |
| breastfeeding {n} (activity) | :: رضاعة طبيعية {f} /raḍāʿa ṭabīʿiyya/ |
| breastpin {n} (brooch) SEE: brooch | :: |
| breastplate {n} (horse tack) | :: لبب {m} /labab/ |
| breaststrap {n} (breastplate) SEE: breastplate | :: |
| breath {n} (act or process of breathing) | :: نفس {m} /nafas/ |
| breathe {v} (to draw air in and out) | :: تنفس /tanaffasa/ |
| breathing {n} (act of respiration) | :: تنفس {m} /tanafus/, نفس {m} /nafas/ |
| breed {v} (to sexually produce offspring) | :: ربى /rabbā/ |
| breeding {n} (copulation) SEE: sexual intercourse | :: |
| breeze {n} (a light, gentle wind) | :: نسيم {m} /nasīm/, هواء {m} /hawāʾ/, نسمة {f} /nasama/ |
| breeze {n} (activity that is easy) | :: سهل /sahl/, بسيط /basīṭ/ |
| breeze {v} (blow gently) | :: نفحت الريح /nafaḥati r-rīḥ/, نفخت الريح /nafaḵati r-rīḥu/ |
| breezefly {n} (horsefly) SEE: horsefly | :: |
| Bremen {prop} (city) | :: بريمن {m} /brimin/ |
| Breslau {prop} (Wroclaw) SEE: Wroclaw | :: |
| Brest {prop} (a city in Brittany) | :: بريست {m} /brīst/, بريست {m} /brest/ |
| Brest {prop} (a city in Belarus) | :: بريست {m} /brīst/, بريست {m} /brest/ |
| Breton {n} (the language) | :: بريتونية {f} /buritūniyya/ |
| brevity {n} | :: إيجاز - إجمال- قصر {f} |
| brew {n} (beer) SEE: beer | :: |
| brew {v} (to make beer) | :: خمر /ḵammara/ |
| brew {n} (hill) SEE: hill | :: |
| Brexit {prop} (withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU) | :: بركزت {m} /birikzit/ |
| Brian {prop} (male given name) | :: براين {m} |
| briar {n} (any thorny plant) SEE: thornbush | :: |
| bribe {n} (inducement to dishonesty) | :: رشوة {f} /rašwa/ |
| bribe {v} (to give a bribe) | :: رشا /rašā/ |
| bribery {n} (making of illegal payment to persons in official positions as a means of influencing their decisions) | :: رشوة |
| bribery {n} (giving, offering or accepting bribes) | :: رشوة |
| BRIC {prop} (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) | :: بريك {m} /brīk/ |
| brick {n} (hardened block used for building) | :: طوبة {f} /ṭūba/, لبنة {f} /labina/, قرميد {m} /qarmīd/, طابوق {m} /ṭābūq/ |
| bricklayer {n} (craftsman) | :: بناء بالقرميد {m} /bannāʾ bi-l-qirmīd/, بناء {m} /bannāʾ/ |
| BRICS {prop} (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) | :: بريكس {m} /briks/ |
| bride {n} (woman in the context of her own wedding) | :: عروس {f} /ʿarūs/ |
| bridegroom {n} (bridegroom, groom) | :: عريس {m} /ʿarīs/ |
| bride price {n} (sum paid to the family of the bride) | :: صداق {m} /ṣadāq/ |
| bridge {n} (construction or natural feature that spans a divide) | :: جسر {m} /jisr/, قنطرة {f} /qanṭara/ |
| bridge {n} (card game) | :: بريدج {m} /bridj/ |
| bridgehead {n} (area of ground on the enemy's side of an obstacle) | :: رأس جسر /raʾs jisr/ |
| Bridgetown {prop} (capital of Barbados) | :: بريدج تاون {m} /bridj tawn/ |
| bridle {n} (headgear for horse) | :: لجام {m} /lijām/ |
| brie {n} (mild French cheese) | :: بري {m} /brī/ |
| briefcase {n} (case used for carrying documents) | :: حقيبة {f} /ḥaqība/, محفظة {f} /miḥfaẓa/, شنطة {f} /šanṭa/ |
| briefs {n} (male underwear) | :: سروال السنة {m} /sirwāl as-suna/ |
| bright {adj} (visually dazzling, luminous, radiant) | :: لامع /lāmiʿ/, نير /nayyir/, ساطع /sāṭiʿ/ |
| bright {adj} (intelligent) | :: مستنير {m} /mustanīr/ |
| brightness {n} (the quality of being bright) | :: سطوع {m} /suṭūʿ/ |
| brimstone {n} (sulfur) SEE: sulfur | :: |
| bring {v} (to transport toward somebody/somewhere) | :: أحضر /ʾaḥḍara/, جاء ب /jāʾa bi-/, آتى /ʾātā/, جلب /jalaba/, أتى ب /ʾatā bi-/ |
| bring owls to Athens {v} (to undertake a pointless venture) SEE: carry coals to Newcastle | :: |
| brinjal {n} (an aubergine) SEE: eggplant | :: |
| briny {n} (sea) SEE: sea | :: |
| Brisbane {prop} (Capital of Queensland, Australia) | :: بريزبين {m} /brīzbin/ |
| briskly {adv} (fast, quickly, swiftly) | :: بخفة |
| Bristol {prop} (city in south-west England) | :: بريستول {m} /bristul/ |
| Brit {n} (British person) SEE: Briton | :: |
| Britain {prop} (United Kingdom) SEE: United Kingdom | :: |
| Britain {prop} (island, see also: Great Britain; British Isles) | :: بريطانيا {f} /birīṭāniyā/ |
| Britain {prop} (Brittany) SEE: Brittany | :: |
| Britannica {prop} (Encyclopædia Britannica) | :: بريتانيكا /brītānīkā/ |
| britches {n} (pants) SEE: pants | :: |
| British {prop} (citizens or inhabitants of Britain) | :: بريطاني {m} /biriṭāniyy/, بريطانية {f} /biriṭāniyya/ |
| British {adj} (of Britain) | :: بريطاني /biriṭāniyy/ |
| British Columbia {prop} (province of Canada) | :: كولومبيا البريطانية {f} /kulumbiyā l-biriṭāniyya/ |
| British Empire {prop} (empire) | :: الإمبراطورية البريطانية {f} /al-ʾimbarāṭūriyya l-barīṭāniyya/ |
| British English {n} (English language as in Britain, especially in England) | :: الإنجليزية البريطانية {f} /al-ʾingilīziyya l-biriṭāniyya/ |
| British Isles {prop} (group of islands) | :: الجزر البريطانية {f-p} /al-juzur al-biriṭāniyya/ |
| British Virgin Islands {prop} (British overseas territory) | :: الجزر العذراء البريطانية {f-p} /al-juzur al-ʿaḏrāʾ al-biriṭāniyya/ |
| Briton {n} (inhabitant of Great Britain) | :: بريطاني {m} /biriṭānī/, بريطانية {f} /biriṭāniyya/ |
| Brittany {prop} (region of North West France) | :: برطانية {f} /barṭāniya/ |
| bro {n} (a male sibling) SEE: brother | :: |
| bro {n} (used to address a male) | :: أخي {m} /ʾaḵī/ |
| broach {n} (spit) SEE: spit | :: |
| broach {n} (brooch) SEE: brooch | :: |
| broad {adj} (wide) SEE: wide | :: |
| broad {n} (whore) SEE: whore | :: |
| broadband {n} (high-capacity internet connection) | :: نطاق العريض {m} /niṭāq al-ʿarīḍ/, واسع النطاق {m} /wāsiʿ an-niṭāq/ |
| broad bean {n} (Vicia faba) | :: فول {m-p} /fūl/, باقلاء {f} /bāqillāʾ/ |
| broadcast {n} (transmission of a radio or television programme) | :: تلفزة {f} /talfaza/, إذاعة {f} /ʾiḏāʿa/ |
| broadcast {v} (to transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means) | :: أذاع /ʾaḏāʿa/, بث /baṯṯa/ |
| broadcaster {n} (organisation) | :: إذاعة {f} /ʾiḏāʿa/ |
| broadcaster {n} (person) | :: مذيع {m} /muḏīʿ/, مذيعة {f} /muḏīʿa/ |
| broadcasting {n} (business or profession of radio and television) | :: إذاعة {f} /ʾiḏāʿa/ |
| brocade {n} (fabric) | :: إستبرق {m} /ʾistabraq/ |
| broccoli {n} (plant Brassica oleracea var. italica) | :: بركولي {m} /brukūlī/ |
| brochure {n} (booklet of printed informational matter) | :: كراسة /kurrāsa/, كتيب {m} /kutayyib/ |
| broke {adj} (lacking money; bankrupt) | :: مفلس {m} /muflis/ |
| broken {adj} (fragmented) | :: مكسور /maksūr/ |
| broken-down {adj} (no longer in working order) | :: معطل {m} /muʿaṭṭal/ |
| broken heart {n} (feeling of grief or loss) | :: كسير القلب /kasīru l-qalb/ |
| broken plural {n} (in Arabic and other languages, irregular plural formed by changing the pattern of consonants and vowels) | :: جمع تكسير {m} /jamʿ taksīr/, جمع مكسر {m} /jamʿ mukassar/ |
| broker {n} (mediator between a buyer and seller) | :: سمسار {m} /simsār/, وسيط {m} /wasīṭ/, دلال {m} /dallāl/ |
| bromine {n} (nonmetallic chemical element) | :: بروم {m} /burūm/ |
| Bronx cheer {n} (synonym of raspberry) SEE: raspberry | :: |
| bronze {v} (to tan) SEE: tan | :: |
| bronze {n} (alloy) | :: برونز {m} /brūnz/ |
| Bronze Age {prop} (archaeology) | :: العصر البرونزي {m} /al-ʿaṣr al-bronziyy/ |
| brooch {n} (jewellery with pin) | :: بروش {m} /brūš/, بروش {m} /broš/ |
| brook {n} (a small stream) | :: غدير {m} /ḡadīr/ |
| brook {v} (tolerate) SEE: tolerate | :: |
| broom {n} (domestic utensil) | :: مكنسة {f} /miknasa/, مقشة {f} /miqša/ |
| broom {n} (Fabaceae shrub) | :: جولق {m} /jawlaq/ |
| broomcorn millet {n} (proso millet) SEE: proso millet | :: |
| broth {n} (water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled) | :: مرق {m} /maraq/ |
| brothel {n} (house of prostitution) | :: بيت دعارة {m} /bayt daʿāra/, مبغى /mabḡan/, كرخانة {f} /karḵāna/, بيت التسامح {m} /bayt at-tasāmuḥ/ |
| brother {n} (male sibling) | :: أخ {m} /ʾaḵ/, شقيق {m} /šaqīq/ |
| brother {n} | :: أخ {m} /ʾaḵ/ |
| brotherhood {n} (state of being brothers or a brother) | :: أخوة /ʾuḵuwwa/ |
| brother-in-law {n} (one's husband's brother) | :: شقيق زوج {m} /šaqīq zawj/ , شقيق زوجة {m} /šaqīq zawja/ , سلف {m} /silf/ |
| brouhaha {n} (fuss, uproar) | :: عجيج، ضجيج، هرج {m} |
| brow {n} (forehead) SEE: forehead | :: |
| brow {n} (eyebrow) SEE: eyebrow | :: |
| browbeat {v} (to bully in an intimidating way) | :: يغشمر {m} /yuḡašmir/ |
| brown {n} (colour) | :: بني /bunniyy/, أسمر {m} /ʾasmar/ |
| brown {adj} (having a brown colour) | :: أسمر {m} /ʾasmar/, سمراء {f} /samrāʾ/, سمر {p} /sumr/, بني /bunniyy/ |
| brown {v} (to tan) SEE: tan | :: |
| Brown {prop} (transliterations of the English name "Brown") | :: براون /brāwn/ |
| brown coal {n} (lignite) SEE: lignite | :: |
| Brownian motion {n} (random motion of particles suspended in a fluid) | :: حركة براونية {f} /ḥaraka barawniyya/ |
| brownie {n} (small rich cake) | :: جنية سمراء صغيرة |
| brown rat {n} (Rattus norvegicus) | :: جرذ أسمر {m} /jurḏ ʾasmar/ |
| browser {n} (web browser) SEE: web browser | :: |
| bruise {n} (medical: mark on the skin) | :: كدمة {f} /kadma/ |
| Brumaire {prop} (the second month of the French Republican Calendar) | :: برومير {m} /brūmayr/ |
| brumous {adj} (wintry) SEE: wintry | :: |
| Brunei {prop} (a country in Southeast Asia) | :: بروناي {f} /brūnāy/ |
| brunette {adj} (having brown or black hair) | :: امرأة ذات شعر بني أو أسود, سمراء |
| brunette {n} (a person, especially female, with brown or black hair) | :: سمراء {f} /samrāʾ/ |
| brunion {n} (nectarine) SEE: nectarine | :: |
| Bruno {prop} (male given name) | :: برونو {m} /brūnū/ |
| Bruno {prop} (surname) | :: برونو {m} {f} /brūnū/ |
| bruschetta {n} (Italian toasted bread topped with garlic and tomatoes) | :: بروسكيتا {f} /bruskētta/ |
| brush {n} (implement) | :: فرشاة {f} /furšāh/ |
| brush {v} (to clean (with a brush)) | :: فرش /faraša/ |
| brush one's teeth {v} (to clean one's teeth with a toothbrush) | :: نظف الأسنان /naẓẓafa l-ʾasnān / |
| Brussels {prop} (capital of Belgium) | :: بروكسل {m} /brūksil/ |
| bruxism {n} (habit or practice of grinding the teeth) | :: صرير الأسنان |
| Bryan {prop} (male given name) | :: براين {m} |
| Bryansk {prop} (city in Russia) | :: بريانسك {m} /bryānsk/ |
| bubble {n} (Greek) SEE: Greek | :: |
| bubble {n} (spherically contained volume of air or other gas) | :: فقاعة {f} /fuqqāʿa/ |
| bubble {n} (someone who has been fooled) SEE: dupe | :: |
| bubble {v} (to cry, weep) SEE: weep | :: |
| bubble {v} (to cheat, delude) SEE: cheat | :: |
| bubble level {n} (tool) SEE: spirit level | :: |
| Bucharest {prop} (The capital of Romania) | :: بوخارست {f} /buḵarest/ |
| buck {n} (ram) SEE: ram | :: |
| buck {n} (male deer, goat, etc.) | :: وعل {m} /waʿl/, كبش {m} /kabš/ |
| bucket {n} (container) | :: دلو {m} /dalw/, سطل {m} /saṭl/, جردل {m} /jardal/ |
| Buckingham Palace {prop} (the official London residence of the British monarch) | :: قصر بكنغهام {m} /qaṣr bakinḡham/ |
| buckler {n} (small shield) | :: ترس {m} /turs/ |
| buckthorn {n} (plant of the genus Rhamnus) | :: سدر {m} /sidr/ |
| buckwheat {n} (fruit of this plant as cereal) | :: حنطة سوداء {f} /ḥinṭa sawdāʾ/ |
| bud {n} (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded) | :: برعم /burʿum/ |
| Budapest {prop} (the capital city of Hungary) | :: بودابست {f} /budābist/ |
| buddha {n} (marijuana) SEE: marijuana | :: |
| buddha {n} (enlightened human) | :: بوذا {m} /būḏā/ |
| Buddha {prop} (spiritual and philosophical teacher) | :: بوذا {m} /būḏā/ |
| Buddhism {n} (religion and philosophy) | :: بوذية {f} /būḏiyya/ |
| Buddhist {adj} (of, relating to, or practicing Buddhism) | :: بوذي /būḏiyy/ |
| Buddhist {adj} (of, relating to a Buddhist, Buddhists) | :: بوذي /būḏiyy/ |
| Buddhist {n} (practitioner of Buddhism) | :: بوذي {m} /būḏiyy/, بوذية {f} /būḏiyya/ |
| budget {n} (the amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or time-frame) | :: ميزانية {f} /mīzāniyya/, موازنة {f} /muwāzana/ |
| budget {n} (itemized summary of intended expenditure) | :: ميزانية {f} /mīzāniyya/, موازنة {f} /muwāzana/ |
| Buenos Aires {prop} (capital of Argentina) | :: بوينس آيرس {m} /bwīnus ʾāyris/ |
| buffalo {n} (Old World mammals) | :: جاموس {m} /jāmūs/, جاموسة {f} /jāmūsa/ |
| buffalo wing {n} (cooked chicken wing in spicy sauce) | :: جناح الجاموس {m} /janāḥ al-jāmūs/ |
| buffet {n} (counter or sideboard) | :: بوفيه {m} /būfēh/ |
| buffoon {n} (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion) | :: مهرج {m} /muharrij/ |
| bug {n} (problem that needs fixing (especially in computing)) | :: خطأ {m} /ḵaṭaʾ/ |
| bugger {n} (heretic) SEE: heretic | :: |
| bugger off {interj} (go away) SEE: get lost | :: |
| buggery {n} (anal sex) SEE: anal sex | :: |
| bugle {n} (plant of the genus Ajuga) | :: شندقورة {f} /šandgūra/, جعدة {f} /juʿda/ |
| build {v} ((transitive) to form by combining materials or parts) | :: بنى /banā/ |
| builder {n} (a person who builds or constructs things) | :: بناء {m} /bannāʾun/ |
| building {n} (act or process of building) | :: بناء {f} /bināʾ/ |
| building {n} (closed structure with walls and a roof) | :: مبنى {m} /mabnā/, بناء {f} /bināʾ/, دار {f} /dār/, بناية {f} /bināya/ |
| Bujumbura {prop} (former capital of Burundi) | :: بوجمبورا {f} /bujumbūrā/ |
| Bukhara {prop} (city in Uzbekistan) | :: بخارى {f} /buḵārā/ |
| bukkake {n} (act of multiple people ejaculating on someone) | :: بوكاكيه {m} /bukākīh/ |
| bulb {n} (light bulb) SEE: light bulb | :: |
| bulbourethral gland {n} (bulbourethral gland) | :: غدة بصلية إحليلية {f} /ḡudda baṣaliyya ʾiḥlīliyya/ |
| bulbul {n} (bird of the family Pycnonotidae) | :: بلبل {m} /bulbul/ |
| Bulgaria {prop} (country) | :: بلغاريا {f} /bulḡāriyā/, بلغاريا {f} /balḡāryā/ |
| Bulgarian {adj} (relating to Bulgaria, its people or the Bulgarian language) | :: بلغاري /bulḡāriyy/ |
| Bulgarian {n} (native of Bulgaria) | :: بلغاري {m} /bulḡāriyy/, بلغارية {f} /bulḡāriyya/ |
| Bulgarian {n} (language) | :: بلغاري {m} /bulḡāriyy/ |
| bulgur {n} (Middle Eastern food) | :: برغل {m} /burḡul/ |
| bulky {adj} (large in size, mass, or volume) | :: ضخم /ḍaḵm/ |
| bull {n} (uncastrated adult male bovine) | :: ثور {m} /ṯawr/ |
| bull {n} (document) | :: مرسوم {m} /marsūm/ |
| bullcrap {n} (bullshit) SEE: bullshit | :: |
| bulldoze {v} (to destroy with a bulldozer) | :: جرف /jarrafa/ |
| bulldozer {n} (tractor) | :: جرارة {f} /jarrāra/, جرافة {f} /jarrāfa/, بولدوزر {m} /buldūzar/ |
| bullet {n} (projectile) | :: رصاصة {f} /raṣāṣa/, رصاص {m} /raṣāṣ/ |
| bulletproof vest {n} (garment) | :: صدرية ضد الرصاص /ṣadriyya(t) ḍidda r-raṣāṣ/, سترة واقية {f} /sutra(t) wāqiya/ |
| bullet train {n} (Japanese high-speed train) | :: شينكانسن {m} /šinkansen/ |
| bullshit {n} (object of frustration) | :: هراء /hurāʾ/ |
| bully {n} (pimp) SEE: pimp | :: |
| bully {n} (person who is cruel to others) | :: مستأسد {m} /mustaʾsid/ |
| bullying {n} (act of intimidating a person) | :: إرهاب {m} /ʾirhāb/, تنمر {m} /tanammur/ |
| bulwark {n} (defensive wall or rampart) | :: حصن {m} /ḥiṣn/ |
| bumblebee {n} (genus of bee) | :: طنانة {f} /ṭannāna/, نحلة {f} /naḥla/ |
| bumfodder {n} (toilet paper) SEE: toilet paper | :: |
| bumfuck {n} (sodomy) SEE: sodomy | :: |
| bun {n} (newbie) SEE: newbie | :: |
| bun {n} (A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced) | :: كعكة {f} /kaʿka/ |
| bunch {n} (a group of similar things) | :: حزمة {f} |
| bunch {n} (an informal body of friends) | :: مجموعة {f} |
| bunch {n} (a considerable amount) | :: حزمة {f} |
| bunch {v} (to gather into a bunch) | :: حزم /ḥazama/ |
| bundle {n} (group of objects held together by wrapping or tying) | :: إبالة {f} /ʾibāla/, حزمة {f} /ḥuzma/ |
| bung {n} (bribe) SEE: bribe | :: |
| bunk bed {n} (two or more beds fixed on top of one another) | :: سرير بطابقين {m} /sarīr biṭābaqayn/ |
| bunkbed {n} (bunk bed) SEE: bunk bed | :: |
| bunker {n} (hardened shelter) | :: مخبأ {m} /maḵbaʾ/, قبو {m} /qabw/ |
| bunker {n} (truant) SEE: truant | :: |
| Bunsen burner {n} (small laboratory gas burner) | :: موقد بنسن |
| buoy {n} (moored float) | :: شمندورة {f} /šamandūra/, عوامة {f} /ʿawwāma/ |
| buoy {n} (life preserver) SEE: life preserver | :: |
| burden {n} (heavy load) | :: حمل {m} /ḥiml/, عبء {m} /ʿibʾ/ |
| burden {n} (responsibility, onus) | :: حمل {m} /ḥiml/, عبء {m} /ʿibʾ/ |
| bureau {n} (office (room)) | :: مكتب {m} /maktab/ |
| bureau {n} (desk) | :: مكتب {m} /maktab/ |
| bureaucracy {n} (system of administration) | :: بيرقراطية {f} /bīruqrāṭiyya/ |
| bureaucrat {n} (An official in a bureaucracy) | :: بيروقراطي {m} /bīruqrāṭiyy/ |
| bureau de change {n} (a place where foreign currency can be exchanged) | :: صرافة العملات {f} /ṣirāfat al-ʿumlāt/, مكتب صرافة {m} /maktab ṣirāfa/ |
| Burgas {prop} (city in Bulgaria) | :: بورغاس |
| burger {n} (informal: hamburger) | :: بورجر {m} /būrgar/ |
| burial {n} (interment) | :: دفن {m} /dafn/, تدفين {m} /tadfīn/ |
| burka {n} (female garment that covers the whole body) | :: برقع {m} /burquʿ/ |
| Burkina Faso {prop} (country) | :: بوركينا فاسو {f} /būrkīnā fāsū/ |
| burlesque {n} (variety adult entertainment show) | :: عرض مسرحي هزلي {m} /ʿarḍ masraḥiyy hazliyy/ |
| Burma {prop} (Southeast Asian country (former name), see also: Myanmar) | :: بورما {f} /burmā/ |
| Burmese {n} (a person from Myanmar or of Burmese descent) | :: بورمي {m} /burmiyy/, بورمية {f} /burmiyya/ |
| Burmese {prop} (language) | :: بورمي {m} /burmiyy/, بورمية {f} /burmiyya/ |
| burn {n} (physical injury) | :: حرق {m} /ḥarq/, سفعة {f} /safʿa/ |
| burn {v} (to cause to be consumed by fire) | :: أحرق /ʾaḥraqa/, حرق /ḥaraqa/ |
| burn {v} (to be consumed by fire) | :: احترق /iḥtaraqa/ |
| burn {n} (vegetable disease) SEE: brand | :: |
| burn {v} (to sunburn) SEE: sunburn | :: |
| burning bush {n} (Euonymus in general) SEE: spindle | :: |
| burn one's bridges {v} (burn one's bridges) | :: حرق السفن /ḥaraqa s-sufun/, قطع الجسور /qaṭaʿa l-jusūr/, قطع كل علاقات /qaṭaʿa kull ʿalāqāt/ |
| burnoose {n} (a thick hooded cloak) | :: برنس {m} /burnus/ |
| burnt {adj} (damaged or injured by fire or heat) | :: محروق /maḥrūq/, محترق /muḥtariq/ |
| burn the midnight oil {v} (work through the night) | :: أشعل فانوس الليل |
| burp {n} (a softer belch) | :: تجشؤ {m} /tajaššuʾ/ |
| burp {v} (to emit a burp) | :: تجشأ /tajaššaʾa/ |
| burqa {n} (burka) SEE: burka | :: |
| burrata {n} (cheese similar to creamy mozzarella) | :: بوراتا {f} /burrāta/ |
| burrow {n} (a tunnel or hole) | :: جحر {m} /juḥr/, سرب {m} /sarab/, دولج {m} /dawlaj/ |
| bursty {adj} (occurring in abrupt bursts) | :: متقطع, متدفق {m} |
| Burundi {prop} (a country in Eastern Africa) | :: بورندي {m} /burundī/, بوروندي {m} /burundī/ |
| bury {v} (inter a corpse in a grave or tomb) | :: دفن /dafana/ |
| bury {v} (hide or conceal as if by covering with earth) | :: دفن /dafana/ |
| Buryatia {prop} (Buryatia, Russia) | :: بورياتيا {f} /buryātyā/ |
| bus {n} (medical slang: ambulance) SEE: ambulance | :: |
| bus {n} (vehicle) | :: حافلة {f} /ḥāfila/, باص {m} /bāṣ/, أتوبيس {m} /ʾotobīs/, أتوبوس {m} /ʾotobūs/ |
| Busan {prop} (Busan, South Korea) | :: بوسان {m} /busān/ |
| Buscemi {prop} (city of Sicily) | :: قلعة أبي شامة /qalʿat ʾabī šāma/ |
| bush {n} (category of woody plant) | :: شجيرة {f} /šajyra/ |
| Bush {prop} (surname) | :: بوش /būš/ |
| business {n} (commercial enterprise or establishment) | :: شركة {f} /šarika/ |
| business {n} (occupation, work or trade of a person) | :: عمل {m} /ʿamal/, تجارة {f} /tijāra/, مشروع {m} /mašrūʿ/ |
| business {n} (patronage) | :: رعاية {n} |
| business card {n} (small card) | :: بطاقة مؤسسة {f} /biṭāqat muʾassasa/ |
| businessman {n} (a man in business, one who works at a commercial institution) | :: رجل أعمال {m} /rajul ʾaʿmāl/, تاجر {m} /tājir/ |
| businessperson {n} (a person in business) | :: تاجر {m} /tājir/, تاجرة {f} /tājira/ |
| business trip {n} (business trip) | :: رحلة عمل {f} /riḥlat ʿamal/ |
| businesswoman {n} (woman of business) | :: تاجرة {f} /tājira/ |
| bus station {n} (major bus stop, one that serves as a transfer point between a large number of routes) | :: محطة حافلات {f} /maḥaṭṭat ḥāfilāt/ |
| bus stop {n} (a stop for public transport buses) | :: موقف للحافلات {m} /mawqif li-l-ḥāfilāt/, موقف باص {m} /mawqif bāṣ/, محطة باص {f} /maḥaṭṭat bāṣ/ |
| bustard {n} (any of several birds of the family Otididae) | :: حبارى {f} /ḥubārā/ |
| busy {adj} (doing a great deal) | :: مشغول /mašḡūl/ |
| busybody {n} (someone who interferes with others) | :: فضولي {m} /fuḍūliyy/ |
| but {conj} (rather) | :: لكن /lākin/, ولكن /wa-lākin/, بل /bal/ |
| but {conj} (although) | :: لكن /lākin/, لكن /lākinna/, ولكن /wa-lākin/, ولكن /wa-lākinna/ |
| but {conj} (except) | :: إلا /ʾillā/, سوى /siwan/ |
| but {conj} | :: بل /bal/ |
| butcher {n} (a person who prepares and sells meat) | :: جزار {m} /jazzār/, قصاب {m} /qaṣṣāb/ |
| butcher {n} (a brutal or indiscriminate killer) | :: جزار {m} /jazzār/ |
| butchery {n} (abattoir) SEE: abattoir | :: |
| butler {n} (manservant having charge of wines and liquors) | :: كبير خدم {m} /kabīr ḵadam/ |
| butt {n} (buttocks) | :: مؤخرة {f} /muʾaḵḵara/ |
| butt {n} (remnant of a smoked cigarette or cigar) | :: عقب سيجارة /ʿaqb sījāra/ |
| butt chin {n} (cleft chin) SEE: cleft chin | :: |
| butte {n} (hill) | :: شاهد صخري |
| butter {n} (soft foodstuff made from milk) | :: زبدة {f} /zubda/ |
| butterbur {n} (herb) | :: أرام {m} /ʾarām/ |
| buttercup {n} (flower of the genus Narcissus) SEE: daffodil | :: |
| buttercup {n} (herb of the genus Ranunculus) | :: حوذان {m} /ḥawḏān/ |
| butterfly {n} (insect) | :: فراشة {f} /farāša/ |
| butterfly effect {n} (technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory) | :: تأثير الفراشة {m} /taʾṯīr al-farāša/ |
| buttermilk {n} (traditional buttermilk) | :: مخيض {m} /maḵīḍ/, ممخوض {m} /mamḵūḍ/ |
| buttermilk {n} (cultured buttermilk) | :: دوغ {m} /dūḡ/ |
| butter up {v} (to flatter) | :: تملق /tamallaqa/ |
| buttfuck {n} (sodomy) SEE: sodomy | :: |
| butthole {n} (anus) SEE: anus | :: |
| butt-naked {adj} (naked) SEE: naked | :: |
| buttock {n} (each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body) | :: دبر {m} /dubr/, ردف {m} /ridf/, ردفان {m} /ridfān/, ألية {f} /ʾalya/ |
| button {n} (knob or small disc serving as a fastener) | :: زر {m} /zirr/ |
| button {n} (a mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger) | :: زر {m} /zirr/ |
| buy {v} (to obtain something with money) | :: اشترى /ištarā/ |
| buy {n} (purchase) SEE: purchase | :: |
| buyer {n} (person who makes purchases) | :: مشتري {m} /muštarī/, مشتر {m} /muštarin/, مشترية {f} /muštariya/ |
| buying {n} (act of making a purchase) | :: شراء {m} /širāʾ/, اشتراء {m} /ištirāʾ/ |
| buzz {v} (to make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound) | :: طن /ṭanna/ |
| buzz {n} (whisper) SEE: whisper | :: |
| buzzard {n} (bird of the genus Buteo) | :: حوام {m} /ḥawām/ |
| buzzard {n} (scavenging bird) SEE: vulture | :: |
| buzzer {n} (device) | :: طنان {m} /ṭannān/ |
| by {prep} (near, or next to) | :: بجانب /bi-jānib/ |
| by {prep} (not later than) | :: عند /ʿinda/, في /fī/ |
| by {prep} (indicates the agent of a passive verb) | :: من قبل /min qibal/, بواسطة /bi-wāsiṭa/, ب /bi-/ |
| by {prep} (indicates creator of a work) | :: بواسطة /bi-wāsiṭa/, ل /li-/ |
| by {prep} (indicates a means) | :: ب /bi-/ |
| by {prep} (with the authority of) | :: ب /bi-/ |
| by and by {adv} (soon) SEE: soon | :: |
| by and large {adv} (mostly, generally; with few exceptions) | :: على العموم /ʿalā l-ʿamūm/ |
| Byblos {prop} (port city in Lebanon) | :: جبيل /jubayl/ |
| by chance {prep} (unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)) | :: صدفة /ṣudfatan/ |
| by dint of {prep} (because of; by reason of) SEE: because of | :: |
| by dint of {prep} (by the force of; by means of, see also: by means of) | :: بسبب /bisababb/ |
| bye {interj} (short for goodbye, see also: goodbye) | :: إلى اللقاء /ʾilā l-liqāʾ/, مع السلامة /maʿa s-salāma/, سلام /salām/ |
| bye-bye {n} (goodbye, see also: bye; goodbye) | :: إلى اللقاء /ʾilā l-liqāʾ/, باي باي /bay bay/ |
| by-election {n} (special election) | :: انتخابات تكميلية {m-p} /intiḵābāt takmīliyya/ |
| by foot {adv} (on foot) SEE: on foot | :: |
| by God {adv} (oath) | :: والله /wa-llāh/ |
| by God {interj} (surprise) | :: والله /wa-llāh/ |
| by means of {prep} (By using) | :: بواسطة /bi-wāsiṭa/ |
| byre {n} (a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle) | :: حظيرة {f} /ḥaẓīra/, زريبة {f} /zarība/ |
| byte {n} (8-bit unit) | :: بايت {m} /bāyt/ |
| by the by {prep} (by the way) SEE: by the way | :: |
| by the time {prep} (when) SEE: when | :: |
| by the way {prep} (incidentally) | :: بالمناسبة /bi-l-munāsaba/, على فكرة /ʿalā fikratin/ |
| by virtue of {prep} (because of) | :: على أساس /ʿalā ʾasās/, بفضل /bifaḍl/, بمقتضى /bimuqtḍā/, بسبب /bisababb/, استنادا إلى /istinādan ʾilā/ |
| Byzantine Empire {prop} (Greek-speaking empire in the Eastern Mediterranean region) | :: إمبراطورية بيزنطية {f} /ʾimbirāṭuriyya bīzanṭiyya/ |
| Byzantine fault tolerance {n} | :: مسألة الجنرال البيزنطي {f} /masʾalatu l-janarāli l-bīzanṭī/ |
| Byzantium {prop} (Byzantine Empire) SEE: Byzantine Empire | :: |
| Byzantium {prop} (ancient Greek city) | :: بيزنطة {f} /bīzanṭa/ |