| Şanlıurfa {prop} (city in Turkey) | :: الرها /ar-ruhā/ |
| -s {suffix} (regular plurals of nouns) | :: ان {d} /-āni/ , ين {d} /-ayni/ , ون /-ūna/, ين /-īna/, ات /-āt/ |
| Saad {prop} (38th sura of the Qur'an) | :: سورة ص |
| sabat {n} | :: ساباط /sābāṭ/ |
| Sabbath {n} (Jewish Saturday) | :: السبت {m} /as-sabt/ |
| saber-toothed tiger {n} (sabre-toothed tiger) SEE: sabre-toothed tiger | :: |
| sable {n} (animal) | :: سمور {m} /sammūr/ |
| sabotage {n} (deliberate action of subversion, obstruction, disruption, destruction) | :: أعمال تخريبية {m-p} /ʾaʿmāl taḵrībiyya/, تخريب {m} /taḵrīb/ |
| sabre-toothed tiger {n} (prehistoric cat) | :: نمر ذو صابر أسنان {m} /nimr ḏū ṣābir ʾasnān/, نمرة ذات صابر أسنان {f} /nimra(t) ḏāt ṣābir ʾasnān/ |
| Sachertorte {n} (type of chocolate torte) | :: تارت زاخا {m} /tārt zāḵā/ |
| sack {n} (bag for commodities or items) | :: كيس {m} /kīs/ |
| Sacramento {prop} (Sacramento, the capital city of California) | :: سكرامنتو {m} /sakrāmentū/, سكرامنتو {m} /sakrāmintū/ |
| sacred {adj} (made holy) | :: مقدس /muqaddas/ |
| sacrifice {v} (to offer as a gift to a deity) | :: ضحى /ḍaḥḥā/ |
| sacrifice {n} (something sacrificed) | :: تضحية {f} /taḍḥiya/ |
| sacrilege {n} (desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something sacred) | :: تدنيس {m} /tadnīs/, ترجيس {m} /tarjīs/ |
| sad {adj} (feeling sorrow) | :: حزين /ḥazīn/ |
| sad {adj} (causing sorrow, lamentable) | :: محزن /muḥzinun/ |
| Saïda {prop} (port city in Lebanon) SEE: Sidon | :: |
| Saddam {prop} (male given name) | :: صدام {m} /ṣaddām/ |
| Saddam {prop} (Saddam Hussein) | :: صدام حسين {m} /ṣaddām ḥusayn/ |
| saddle {n} (seat on an animal) | :: سرج {m} /sarj/, مركب {m} /markab/ |
| saddlemaker {n} (saddler) SEE: saddler | :: |
| saddler {n} (someone who makes and repairs saddles) | :: سراج {m} /sarrāj/ |
| Sadducee {n} (member of an ancient Jewish sect) | :: صدوقي /ṣaddūqiyy/ |
| sadistic {adj} (of a person) | :: سادى |
| sadly {adv} (unfortunately) SEE: unfortunately | :: |
| sadness {n} (state/emotion) | :: حزن {m} /ḥuzn/ |
| sad to say {adv} (unfortunately) SEE: unfortunately | :: |
| Safar {prop} (the second month of the Islamic calendar) | :: صفر {m} /ṣafar/ |
| safari {n} (a trip into any undeveloped area) | :: سفاري {m} /safārī/ |
| safe {adj} (not in danger) | :: أمين /ʾamīn/, سالم /sālim/, آمن /ʾāmin/ |
| safe {n} (box in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping) | :: خزنة حديدية {f} /ḵazna ḥadīdiyya/, خزنة {f} /ḵazna/ |
| Safed {prop} (a city in northern Israel) | :: صفد {f} /ṣafad/ |
| safety {n} (condition or feeling of being safe) | :: أمن {m} /ʾamn/, أمان {f} /ʾamān/, سلامة {f} /salāma/ |
| safety pin {n} (pin in the form of a clasp) | :: دبوس مشبك {m} /dabbūs mišbak/, دبوس أمان {m} /dabbūs ʾamān/ |
| safflower {n} (plant) | :: مريق /murrīq /, مريق /murrayq /, مريق /mirrīq /, عصفر /ʿuṣfur / |
| saffron {n} (plant) | :: زعفران {m} /zaʿfarān/ |
| Saga {prop} (a prefecture in Japan) | :: ساغا {f} /sāḡā/ |
| Saga {prop} (a city in Saga Prefecture) | :: ساغا {f} /sāḡā/ |
| sage {n} (Salvia officinalis) | :: مريمية {f} /maryamiyya/ |
| Sagittarius {prop} (constellation) | :: برج القوس {m} /burj al-qaws/, القوس {m} /al-qaws/ |
| Sagittarius {prop} (astrological sign) | :: برج القوس {m} /burj al-qaws/, القوس {m} /al-qaws/ |
| Sahara {prop} (desert) | :: الصحراء الكبرى {f} /aṣ-ṣaḥrāʾu l-kubrā/ |
| Sahrawi {adj} (related to Western Sahara) | :: صحراوي /ṣaḥrāwiyy/ |
| Sahrawi {n} (a person from Western Sahara) | :: صحراوي {m} /ṣaḥrāwiyy/, صحراوية {f} /ṣaḥrāwiyya/ |
| Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic {prop} (a partially recognised state in Western Sahara) | :: الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية {f} /al-jumhūriyya l-ʿarabiyya ṣ-ṣaḥrāwiyya d-dimuqrāṭiyya/ |
| Said {prop} (male given name) | :: سعيد {m} /saʿīd/ |
| Said {prop} (surname) | :: سعيد {m} {f} /saʿīd/ |
| said and done {adj} (agreed to and accomplished or finished) | :: مقول ومفعول /maqūl wamafʿūl/ |
| Saigon {prop} (Ho Chi Minh City) SEE: Ho Chi Minh City | :: |
| Saigon {prop} (former name of Ho Chi Minh City) | :: سايغون {m} /sayḡūn/ |
| sail {n} (a piece of fabric attached to a boat) | :: شراع {m} /širāʿ/ |
| sail {v} (to ride in a boat, especially sailboat) | :: أبحر /ʾabḥara/ |
| sailing {n} (motion across water) | :: إبحار {m} /ʾibḥār/ |
| sailing ship {n} (type of ship) | :: سفينة شراعية {f} /safīna(t) šarāʿiyya/ |
| sailor {n} (worker on a ship, seaman, seawoman) | :: بحار {m} /baḥḥār/, بحري {m} /baḥriyy/ |
| sailplane {n} (sailplane) SEE: glider | :: |
| saint {n} (person proclaimed as saint) | :: قديس {m} /qiddīs/, قديسة {f} /qiddīsa/ |
| Saint-Denis {prop} (administrative capital of Réunion) | :: سان دوني {f} /sān dūnī/ |
| Saint George {prop} (Patron saint of England and several other places) | :: القديس جرجس {m} /al-qiddīs jurjus/, جرجس {m} /jurjus/ |
| Saint Helena {prop} (island in the Atlantic Ocean) | :: سانت هيلينا {f} /sant hilīnā/ |
| Saint John's bread {n} (carob) SEE: carob | :: |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis {prop} (a country in the Caribbean) | :: سانت كيتس ونيفيس /sānt kīts wa-nīfīs/ |
| Saint Lucia {prop} (country in the Caribbean) | :: سانت لوسيا {f} /sant lusiyā/ |
| Saint Mary {prop} (the mother of Jesus Christ) | :: المقدسة مريم {f} /al-muqaddasa(t) maryam/, مريم {f} /maryam/ |
| Saint Nicholas {prop} (Santa Claus) SEE: Santa Claus | :: |
| Saint Nicholas {prop} (4th-century Greek bishop, patron of children and marines) | :: القديس نقولا {m} /al-qiddīs niqūlā/ |
| Saint Petersburg {prop} (city in Russia) | :: سانت بطرسبرغ {m} /sant buṭrusburḡ/ |
| Saint Valentine's Day {prop} (Saint Valentine's Day) | :: عيد الحب {m} /ʿīd al-ḥubb/ (festival of love) |
| Saitama {prop} (a prefecture of Japan) | :: سائيتاما {f} /saʾitāmā/ |
| Saitama {prop} (a city of Japan) | :: سائيتاما {f} /saʾitāmā/ |
| Saka {prop} (commune in Morocco) | :: صاكة /ṣāka/ |
| sake {n} (cause, interest or account) | :: غاية /ḡāya/,غرض /ḡaraḍ/, قصد /qaṣd/,مصلحة /maṣlaḥa/ |
| sake {n} (Japanese rice wine) | :: ساكي {m} /sākī/ |
| Sakha {prop} (region) | :: ساخا {f} /sāḵā/ |
| Sakhalin {prop} (island in Russia) | :: سخالين {m} /saḵalīn/, سخالين {m} /saḵalin/ |
| sakura {n} (cherry) SEE: cherry | :: |
| sakura {n} (Japanese cherry tree) | :: ساكورا {f} /sakurā/ |
| sakura {n} (blossom of the Japanese cherry tree, see also: cherry blossom) | :: ساكورا {f} /sakurā/ |
| sakura {n} (cherry blossom) SEE: cherry blossom | :: |
| Salé {prop} (city near Rabat) | :: سلا /salā/ |
| salaam {interj} (a Muslim greeting) | :: سلام /salām/ |
| salaam alaikum {interj} (peace be upon you ) | :: السلام عليكم /as-salāmu ʿalaykum/ |
| salad {n} (food) | :: سلطة {f} /salaṭa/ |
| Salafi {adj} (of or pertaining to Salafism) | :: سلفي {m} /salafiyy/ |
| Salafism {n} (a Sunni Islamic movement) | :: سلفية {f} /salafiyya/ |
| Salamanca {prop} (city) | :: شلمنقة {f} /šalamanqa/ |
| salami {n} (penis) SEE: penis | :: |
| salami {n} (sausage) | :: سلامي {m} /salāmī/ |
| sal ammoniac {n} (rare mineral) | :: نشادر {m} /nušādir/ |
| salary {n} (fixed amount of money paid on monthly or annual basis) | :: راتب {m} /rātib/, أجر {m} /ʾajr/ |
| salat {n} (Islamic prayer) | :: صلاة {f} /ṣalāh/ |
| sale {n} (exchange of goods or services for currency or credit) | :: بيع {m} /bayʿ/ |
| sale {n} (sale of goods at reduced prices) | :: تخفيض {m-s} /taḵfīḍ/ |
| sale {n} (act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder) | :: مزايدة {f} /muzāyada/ |
| sale {n} | :: أوكازيون, تصريف /taṣrīf/, مبيع /mabīʿ/ |
| saleable {adj} (suitable for sale) | :: للبيع /lilbayʿ/ |
| Salekhard {prop} (city in Russia) | :: سالخارد {m} /saliḵārd/ |
| salesman {n} (man whose job it is to sell things) | :: بياع {m} /bayyāʿ/, بياعة {f} /bayyāʿa/ |
| salesperson {n} (person who sells) | :: بياع {m} /bayyāʿ/ |
| salineness {n} (salineness) SEE: salinity | :: |
| salinity {n} (concentration of salt) | :: ملحية {f} /milḥiyya/ |
| Salisbury {prop} (city in England) | :: سالزبوري |
| saliva {n} (liquid secreted into the mouth) | :: لعاب {m} /luʿāb/, ريق {m} /rīq/, بزاق {m} /buzāq/ |
| salivary gland {n} (Any of exocrine glands producing saliva to break down carbohydrates in food enzymatically) | :: الغدة اللعابية |
| sally {n} (willow) SEE: willow | :: |
| salmon {n} (fish) | :: حوت سليمان {m} /ḥūt sulaymān/ |
| salo {n} (non-rendered pig fat) | :: سالو {m} /sālū/ |
| salon {n} (large room) | :: صالون {m} /ṣālūn/, صالة {f} /ṣāla/, قاعة {f} /qāʿa/ |
| salpinx {n} (Fallopian tube) SEE: Fallopian tube | :: |
| salt {v} (to add salt to) | :: ملح /mallaḥa/ |
| salt {n} (sodium chloride) | :: ملح {m} /milḥ/ |
| salt {n} | :: ملح {m} {f} /milḥ/ |
| saltbush {n} (plant of the genus Atriplex) | :: سرمق {m} /sarmaq/, قطف {m} /qaṭaf/, رغل {m} /ruḡl/ |
| saltiness {n} (property of being, or tasting, salty) | :: ملوحة /muluwḥa/ |
| salt of the earth {n} (a decent, dependable person) | :: ملح الأرض |
| salt shaker {n} (a small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling) | :: رشاشة الملح {f} /raššāšat al-milḥ/ |
| salt water {n} (any water containing dissolved salt) | :: ماء ملح {m} /māʾ milḥ/ |
| salty {adj} (tasting of salt) | :: مالح /māliḥ/ |
| salty {adj} (containing salt) | :: ملحي /milḥiyy/ |
| Saluki {n} (Saluki breed of dog) | :: سلوقي {m} /salwqy/ |
| salvation {n} (the process of being saved (religion)) | :: خلاص {m} /ḵalāṣ/, تطهير النفس {m} /taṭhīr an-nafs/ |
| salve {n} (ointment, cream or balm) | :: مرهم {m} /marham/, زبدة {f} /zabda/, بلسم {m} /balsam/ |
| Salzburg {prop} (city) | :: سالزبورغ {m} /sālzbūrḡ/ |
| Salzburg {prop} (modern Austrian state) | :: سالزبورغ {m} /sālzbūrḡ/ |
| Samara {prop} (city in Russia) | :: سمارا {f} /samārā/, سامارا {f} /samārā/ |
| Samaria {prop} (Both city and part of ancient Palestine) | :: السامرة {f} /as-sāmira/ |
| Samaritan {n} (a native or inhabitant of Samaria) | :: سامري {m} /sāmiriyy/ |
| samarium {n} (chemical element) | :: ساماريوم {m} /samaryum/ |
| Samarkand {prop} (city in Uzbekistan) | :: سمرقند /samarqand/, سمران {f} /sumaran/ |
| sambuca {n} (Italian liqueur made from elderberries and flavoured with licorice) | :: سامبوكا {f} /sambūka/ |
| same {adj} (not different as regards self; identical) | :: نفسه {m} /nafsahu/, نفسها {m} /nafsahā/ |
| same {adj} (similar, alike) | :: مثلها {f} /miṯlahā/, يشبهه {m} /yušbihahu/, يشبهها {f} /yušbihuhā/, ذات {f} /ḏāt/ |
| same-sex marriage {n} (gay marriage) SEE: gay marriage | :: |
| samisen {n} (shamisen) SEE: shamisen | :: |
| Samoa {prop} (Independent State of Samoa) | :: ساموا {f} /samuwwā/ |
| samosa {n} (Indian snack) | :: سنبوسة {f} /sanbūsa/ |
| samovar {n} (metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea) | :: ساموار {m} /samawār/, سموار {m} /samawār/ |
| sample {n} (part taken for inspection) | :: عينة {f} /ʿayyina/ |
| sample {n} (statistics) | :: عينة {f} /ʿayyinatun/, عينات {f-p} /ʿayyinātun/ |
| sample {n} (business) | :: عينة {f} /ʿayyinatun/, عينات {f-p} /ʿayyinātun/ |
| Samson {prop} (Israelite judge) | :: شمشون {m} /shamshūn/ |
| Samsung {prop} (South Korean conglomerate company) | :: سامسونج {m} /sāmsūnj/ |
| Samuel {prop} (male given name) | :: سموأل /samawʾal/, صاموئيل /ṣāmūʾīl/ |
| Samuel {prop} (biblical person) | :: صموئيل /ṣamūʾīl/ |
| samurai {n} (feudal Japanese warrior) | :: ساموراي {m} /sāmūrāy/ |
| -san {suffix} (Mrs) SEE: Mrs | :: |
| -san {suffix} (Miss) SEE: Miss | :: |
| Sana'a {prop} (capital of Yemen) | :: صنعاء /ṣanʿāʾ/ |
| sanatorium {n} (institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence) | :: مصحة {f} /maṣaḥḥa/ |
| sanction {n} (penalty, coercive measure) | :: عقاب {m} /ʿiqāb/, إستحسان {m} /ʾistiḥsān/, إعتماد {m} /ʾiʿtimād/ |
| sand {n} (finely ground rock) | :: رمل {m} /raml/ |
| sandal {n} (type of footwear) | :: صندل {m} /ṣandal/ |
| sandal {n} (sandalwood) SEE: sandalwood | :: |
| sandalwood {n} (any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum) | :: صندل /ṣandal/ |
| sandalwood {n} (the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum) | :: صندل /ṣandal/ |
| sandbar {n} (ridge of sand) | :: ضحضاح ماء {m} /ḍaḥḍāḥ māʾ/ |
| Sanders {prop} (surname) | :: ساندرز /sāndarz/ |
| sandhi {n} (phonological process) | :: سندهي {m} /sandhī/, وصل {m} /waṣl/ |
| sandstone {n} (sand/clay sedimentary rock) | :: حجر رملي {m} /ḥajar ramliyy/ |
| sandstorm {n} (strong wind carrying clouds of sand) | :: عاصفة رملية {f} /ʿāṣifa ramliyya/ |
| sandwich {n} (snack consisting of two slices of bread) | :: ساندويتش {m} /sandawitš/, شطيرة {f} /šaṭīra/ |
| sane {adj} (mentally healthy) | :: عاقل /ʿāqil/ |
| San Francisco {prop} (San Francisco, California city) | :: سان فرانسسكو {m} /san faransiskū/, سان فرانسيسكو {m} /san faransiskū/, سان فرنسسكو {m} /san faransiskū/ |
| sangria {n} (Spanish wine drink with fruit, sugar and soda) | :: سانجريا {f} |
| sanitary napkin {n} (pad of cotton or other absorbent material) | :: فوطة صحية /fūṭa(t) ṣiḥḥiyya/ |
| sanitary towel {n} (pad of cotton) SEE: sanitary napkin | :: |
| sanitation {n} (the policy and practice) | :: الصحة العمومية {f} /aṣ-ṣiḥḥa l-ʿumūmiyya/ |
| sanjak {n} (an administrative region under the Ottoman Empire) | :: سنجق /sanjaq/ |
| San José {prop} (the capital of Costa Rica) | :: سان خوسيه {m} /sān ḵūsīh/ |
| San José {prop} (A city in California, USA) SEE: San Jose | :: |
| San Jose {prop} (a city in California, USA) | :: سان هوزيه {m} /sān huzīh/ |
| San Marino {prop} (Republic of San Marino) | :: سان مارينو {f} /san marīnū/ |
| sans {prep} (without) SEE: without | :: |
| San Salvador {prop} (capital of El Salvador) | :: سان سلفادور {m} /sān salfādūr/ |
| Sanskrit {n} (language) | :: سنسكريتي {m} /sanskrītiyy/ |
| Santa {prop} (Santa Claus) SEE: Santa Claus | :: |
| Santa Claus {prop} (fictional figure) | :: بابا نويل {m} /bābā nuyīl/ |
| Santiago {prop} (city in Chile) | :: سانتياغو {m} /santyāḡū/ |
| Santiago de Chile {prop} (Santiago) SEE: Santiago | :: |
| Santiago de Compostela {prop} (city) | :: سانتياغو دي كومبوستيلا |
| Santo Domingo {prop} (the capital city of the Dominican Republic) | :: سانتو دومينجو {m} /santū dumingū/ |
| Santorini {prop} (Greek island) | :: سانتوريني {m} /sāntūrīnī/ |
| Sanya {prop} (a city in China) | :: سانيا {f} /sanyā/ |
| sap {n} (juice of plant) | :: نسغ {m} /nusḡ/, عصارة {f} /ʿuṣāra/ |
| sapling {n} (young tree) | :: شتلة {f} /šatla/ |
| sapphire {n} (gem) | :: ياقوت {m} /yāqūt/ |
| sapphire {n} (corundum) | :: ياقوت {m} /yāqūt/ |
| sapphire {n} (colour) | :: أزرق ياقوتي /ʾazraq yāqūtiyy/ |
| Sapporo {prop} (a city of Japan) | :: سابورو {m} /sabūrū/ |
| Sara {prop} (female given name) SEE: Sarah | :: |
| Sarah {prop} (the wife of Abraham) | :: سارة {f} /sāra/ |
| Sarah {prop} (given name from Hebrew) | :: سارة {f} /sāra/ |
| Sarajevo {prop} (city) | :: ساراييفو /sārāyīfū/, سراييفو /sarāyīfū/ |
| Saransk {prop} (city in Russia) | :: سارانسك {m} /sarānsk/ |
| Saratov {prop} (city) | :: ساراتوف {m} /sarātuf/ |
| sarcasm {n} (derision, facetiousness) | :: النقد الساخر, سخرية {f} /suḵriyya/, تهكم {m} /tahakkum/ |
| sarcastic {adj} (Containing sarcasm) | :: ساخر {m} |
| sarcastically {adv} (in a sarcastic manner) | :: ساخرا |
| sarcocol {n} (gum-resin from Astragalus fasciculifolius for wounds) | :: عنزروت {m} /ʿanzarūt/, less often أنزروت {m} /ʾanzarūt/ |
| sarcophagus {n} (coffin) | :: ناووس {m} /nāwūs/ |
| sardine {n} (fish) | :: سردين {m} /sardīn/ |
| Sardinia {prop} (island of Italy) | :: سردينيا {f} /sardīnyā/, سردانية {f} /sardāniya/, سردينية {f} /sardīniya/, سردانية {f} /suridāniya/ |
| Sardinian {prop} (language) | :: لغة سردينية {f} /luḡa(t) sardīniya/ |
| Sargon {prop} (emperor) | :: شروكين {m} |
| sari {n} (cloth) | :: ساري {m} /sārī/ |
| sarin {n} (neurotoxin) | :: سارين {m} /sārīn/ |
| Sarkozy {prop} (surname) | :: ساركوزي /sarkuzī/ |
| sarong {n} (garment made of printed cloth wrapped about the waist) | :: صارون {m} /ṣārūn/ |
| sashimi {n} (dish of slices of raw fish or meat) | :: ساشيمي {m} /sāšīmī/ |
| Saskatchewan {prop} (Province in western Canada) | :: ساسكاتشوان {m} /saskatšuwān/ |
| Satan {prop} (the Devil) | :: الشيطان {m} /aš-šayṭān/, إبليس {m} /ʾiblīs/ |
| Satanism {n} (devil worship) | :: شيطانية {f} /šayṭāniyya/ |
| Satanism {n} (a religion founded by Anton Szandor LaVey) | :: شيطانية {f} /šayṭāniyya/ |
| satay {n} (dish) | :: ساتيه {m} /sātīh/ |
| satellite {n} (a body orbiting a larger one) | :: قمر {m} /qamar/ |
| satellite {n} (man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body) | :: قمر اصطناعي {m} /qamar iṣṭināʿiyy/ |
| satiation {n} (satiety) SEE: satiety | :: |
| satiety {n} (state of being perfectly satiated) | :: شبع {m} /šabaʿ/ |
| satin {n} (cloth with a glossy surface and a dull back) | :: أطلس {m} /ʾaṭlas/ |
| satin {adj} (smooth and shiny) | :: صقيل /ṣaqīl/ |
| satire {n} (literary technique) | :: هجاء {m} /hijāʾ/ |
| Satis {prop} (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) | :: ساتت {f} |
| satisfaction {n} (fulfillment of a need or desire) | :: رضا {m} /riḍā/ |
| satisfaction {n} | :: رضا {f} /riḍan/ |
| satisfy {v} (to satisfy) SEE: respond | :: |
| satrap {n} (governor of a Persian province) | :: ساتراب {m} /sātrāb/ |
| Saturday {n} (day of the week) | :: السبت {m} /as-sabt/, يوم السبت {m} /yawm as-sabt/ |
| Saturn {prop} (planet) | :: زحل {m} /zuḥal/ |
| Saturn {prop} (god) | :: ساتورن {m} /saturn/ |
| Saturnian {n} (inhabitant of Saturn) | :: زحلي /zuḥaliyyun/ |
| satyr {n} (Greek mythology) | :: ساتير /satir/ |
| sauce {n} (liquid condiment) | :: صلصة {f} /ṣalṣa/, مرق {m} /maraq/, مرقة {f} /maraqa/ |
| saucepan {n} (deep cooking vessel) | :: قدر {m} /qidr/, طنجرة {f} /ṭanjara/ |
| Saudi {prop} (Saudi Arabia) SEE: Saudi Arabia | :: |
| Saudi {n} (person from Saudi Arabia) | :: سعودي {m} /suʿūdiyy/, سعودية {f} /suʿūdiyya/ |
| Saudi {adj} (pertaining to Saudi Arabia) | :: سعودي /suʿūdiyy/ |
| Saudi Arabia {prop} (country in the Middle East) | :: السعودية {f} /as-suʿūdiyya/, المملكة العربية السعودية {f} /al-mamlaka l-ʿarabiyya s-suʿūdiyya/ |
| Saudi Arabian {n} (person from Saudi Arabia) SEE: Saudi | :: |
| Saudi Arabian {adj} (pertaining to Saudi Arabia) SEE: Saudi | :: |
| Saul {prop} (first king of Israel) | :: شاؤول الملك {m}, شاؤول {m}, طالوت {m} |
| Saul {prop} (original name of Paul) | :: شاؤول {m} |
| Saul {prop} (male given name) | :: سول {m} /sawl/, شاؤول {m} |
| sauna {n} (sauna room or house) | :: ساونا {f} /sāwnā/ |
| sausage {n} (a food made of minced meat packed into a tubular casing) | :: سجق {m} /sujuq/, نقانق {m} /naqāniq/ |
| savage {adj} (wild, not cultivated) | :: متوحش /mutawaḥḥiš/ |
| savage {n} (uncivilized or feral person) | :: متوحش /mutawaḥḥiš/, همجي /hamajiyy/ |
| savanna {n} (tropical grassland with scattered trees) | :: سافانا {f} /safānā/ |
| Savannah {prop} (the city in Georgia) | :: سافانا |
| savant {n} (a person of learning) | :: عالم {m} /ʿālim/ |
| save {v} (to help someone to survive, or rescue someone) | :: أنقذ /ʾanqaḏa/ |
| save {prep} (except, with the exception of) | :: ما عدا /mā ʿadā/, إلا /ʾilā/, حشا /ḥašā/, خلا /ḵalā/, سوى /siwā/, عدا /ʿadā/ |
| save face {v} (preserve reputation) | :: حفظ ماء الوجه /ḥafiẓa māʾa l-wajhi/ |
| savin {n} (Juniperus sabina) | :: أبهل {m} /ʾabhul/, شبينة {f} /šabīna/ |
| saving {n} (reduction in cost) | :: خصم /ḵaṣm/, حسم /ḥasm/ |
| saving {n} (something that is saved) | :: مدخرات {f-p} /mudaḵarāt/ |
| savior {n} (a person who saves someone, rescues another from harm) | :: مخلص /muḵalliṣ/ |
| savory {adj} (tasty, attractive to the palate) | :: شهي /šahiyy/, مريء /marīʾ/ |
| savory {adj} (salty or non-sweet) | :: مالح |
| savory {n} (herb of genus Satureja) | :: ندغ {m} /nadḡ/ |
| saw {n} (tool) | :: منشار {m} /minšār/ |
| saw {v} (cut with a saw) | :: نشر /našara/ |
| sawm {n} (Islamic fasting) | :: صوم {m} /ṣawm/, صيام {m} /ṣiyām/ |
| Saxony {prop} (state) | :: صاقس {m} /ṣāqis/, سكسونيا {m} /saksūniyā/ |
| saxophone {n} (a musical instrument of the woodwind family) | :: ساكسفون {m} /sāksufūn/ |
| say {v} (to pronounce) | :: قال /qāla/ |
| say {v} (to recite) | :: يتلو /yatlū/ |
| say {v} (to communicate verbally or in writing) | :: قال /qāla/, يقول /yaqūl/ ; Judeo-Arabic: קאל /qāla/ |
| say {v} (to say) SEE: tell | :: |
| say grace {v} (say a prayer of thanks) | :: صلاة الشكر لله (قبل الأكل وبعد) /ṣalātu š-šukri li-llāhi (qabla l-ʾakli wa-baʿda)/ |
| saying {n} (proverb or maxim) | :: قول {m} /qawl/ |
| sayonara {interj} (goodbye, adieu) SEE: farewell | :: |
| sayonara {interj} (goodbye, in reference to Japan (transliterations and different spellings only)) | :: سايونارا /sāyūnārā/ |
| scab {n} (incrustation over a wound) | :: جلبة {f} /julba/ |
| scab {n} (scabies) SEE: scabies | :: |
| scabbard {n} (the sheath of a sword) | :: غمد {m} /ḡimd/, غلاف {m} /ḡilāf/ |
| scabies {n} (an infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei) | :: جرب {m} /jarab/ |
| scaffolding {n} (system of tubes or poles used to support people and material) | :: سقالات {f-p} /siqālāt/ |
| scale {n} (sequence for measurement) | :: مقياس {m} /miqyās/ |
| scale {n} (ratio of distances) | :: ميزان {m} /mīzān/ |
| scale {n} (gradation; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order) | :: سلم {m} /sullam/ |
| scale {n} (keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals) | :: فلس {m} /fals/, حرشف {m} /ḥaršaf/ |
| scale {n} (ladder) SEE: ladder | :: |
| scale {n} (device) SEE: scales | :: |
| scales {n} (device for weighing goods for sale) | :: ميزان /mīzān/ |
| scallion {n} (Allium fistulosum) SEE: spring onion | :: |
| scallop {n} (mollusc) | :: إسكالوب /ʾiskalūb/ |
| scalp {n} (part of head where the hair grows) | :: فروة الرأس {f} /farwat ar-raʾs/ |
| scalpel {n} (small straight knife) | :: مشرط {m} /mišraṭ/ |
| scam {n} (fraudulent deal) | :: احتيال {m} /iḥtiyāl/ |
| scam {v} (to defraud or embezzle) | :: احتال /iḥtāla/ |
| scan {v} (examine sequentially) | :: محص /maḥaṣ/, تمعن /tamaʿan/ |
| scan {v} (create a digital copy of an image using a scanner) | :: مسح ضوئيا /masaḥ ḍawʾiyan/ |
| scandal {n} (incident that brings disgrace) | :: فضيحة {f} /faḍīḥa/ |
| Scandinavia {prop} (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) | :: إسكندينافيا {f} /ʾiskandīnāfiyā/ |
| Scandinavia {prop} (Scandinavian Peninsula) SEE: Scandinavian Peninsula | :: |
| Scandinavian Peninsula {prop} (peninsula in Northern Europe, see also: Scandinavia) | :: إسكندينافيا {f} /ʾiskandīnāfiyā/ |
| scandium {n} (chemical element) | :: سكانديوم {m} /sakandiyum/ |
| scanlation {n} (the process of scanlation) | :: مسح ترجمة {m} /masḥ tarjama/ |
| scanner {n} (device which scans documents) | :: ماسح {m} /māsiḥ/, ماسح ضوئي {m} |
| scanty {adj} (sparing, niggardly) SEE: niggardly | :: |
| scapegoat {n} (a goat imbued with the sins of the people) | :: كبش فداء {m} /kabš fidāʾ/ |
| scapegoat {n} (someone punished for someone else's error(s)) | :: كبش فداء {m} /kabš fidāʾ/ |
| scapula {n} (large flat bone) SEE: shoulder blade | :: |
| scar {n} (cliff) SEE: cliff | :: |
| scar {n} (permanent mark on the skin) | :: ندبة {f} /nadba/, ندب {m} /nadb/ |
| scarab {n} (Scarabaeus sacer) | :: جعران {m} /jiʿrān/ |
| scarab {n} (Scarabidae) | :: جعران {m} /jiʿrān/ |
| scarce {adj} | :: نادر /nādir/ |
| scare {v} (to frighten) | :: أفزع /ʾafzaʿa/ |
| scarecrow {n} (an effigy made to scare the birds away) | :: فزاعة {f} /fazzāʿa/ |
| scared {adj} (afraid, frightened) | :: خائف /ḵāʾif/, مذعور /maḏʿūr/ |
| scarf {n} (long garment worn around the neck) | :: وشاح {m} /wišāḥ/ |
| scarf {n} (headscarf) SEE: headscarf | :: |
| scarificator {n} (cupping glass) | :: مشراط {m} /mišrāṭ/ |
| scarlet {n} (colour) | :: قرمزي /qirmiziyy/ |
| scarlet eggplant {n} (species of fruiting plant) | :: باذنجان أفريقي {m} /bāḏinjān ʾafrīqiyy/ |
| scary {adj} (causing, or able to cause, fright) | :: مجفل /mujaffil/ |
| scatter {v} (to cause to separate) | :: نثر /naṯara/, تفرق /tafarraqa/ |
| scatter {v} | :: نثر |
| scavenger {n} (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things) | :: نباش {m} /nabbāš/ |
| scenario {n} (outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work) | :: سيناريو {m} /sināryū/ |
| scene {n} ((theater) the stage) SEE: stage | :: |
| scene {n} (the location of an event that attracts attention) | :: منظر {m} /manẓar/, مشهد {m} /mašhad/ |
| scene {n} (landscape, scenery) SEE: scenery | :: |
| scenery {n} (view, natural features, landscape) | :: مشهد {m} /mašhad/ |
| scent {n} (distinctive odour or smell) | :: رائحة {f} /rāʾiḥa/, روائح {f-p} /rawāʾiḥ/ |
| scent {n} (perfume) | :: أريج /ʾarīj/ |
| scent {n} | :: الشم {m} /aš-šam/ |
| sceptre {n} (ornamental staff) | :: صولجان /ṣawlajān/ |
| schadenfreude {n} (malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune) | :: شماتة {f} /šamāta/ |
| schedule {n} (a procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur) | :: جدول {m} /jadwal/ |
| Scheherazade {prop} (female given name) | :: شهرزاد {f} /šahrazād/ |
| scheme {n} (secret, devious plan) | :: مكيدة {f} /makīda/ |
| scheme {n} | :: مخطط {m} /muḵaṭṭaṭ/ |
| Schengen {prop} (city in Luxembourg) | :: شينجن {m} /šengen/, شينغن |
| Schiller {prop} (surname) | :: شيلر /šilar/ |
| schizophrenia {n} (mental disorder) | :: فصام /fuṣām/, الفصام الذهاني /al-fiṣām aḏ-ḏuhāniyy/, انفصام الشخصية /infiṣāmu š-šaḵṣiyya/, شيزوفرينيا {f} /šizufrenya/, انشطار الشخصية /inšiṭār aš-šaḵṣiyya/ |
| schnitzel {n} (a meat dish) | :: شنيتزل {m} /šnītzal/ |
| scholar {n} (specialist in a particular branch of knowledge) | :: عالم {m} /ʿālim/ |
| scholar {n} (learned person) | :: عالم {m} /ʿālim/ |
| scholarship {n} (study allowance) | :: منحة دراسية {m} /minḥa(t) dirāsiyya/ |
| scholar's mate {n} (checkmate which occurs after the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Qxf7#) | :: ضربة الراعي {f} /ḍarba(t) ar-rāʿī/, خطة نابليون |
| school {n} (an institution dedicated to teaching and learning) | :: مدرسة {f} /madrasa/, مكتب {m} /maktab/ |
| school {n} (college or university) | :: كلية {f} /kulliyya/, جامعة {f} /jāmiʿa/ |
| school {n} (a department/institute at a college or university) | :: قسم {m} /qisim/ |
| school {n} ((collectively) the followers of a particular doctrine) | :: مدرسة {f} /madrasa/ |
| schoolboy {n} (young male student) | :: تلميذ {m} /tilmīḏ/ |
| schoolchild {n} (young person attending school or of an age to attend school) | :: تلميذ {m} /tilmīḏ/, تلميذة {f} /tilmīḏa/ |
| schoolgirl {n} (girl attending school) | :: تلميذة {f} /tilmīḏa/ |
| schoolie {n} (schoolteacher) SEE: teacher | :: |
| schooling {n} (training or instruction) | :: تدريس {m} /tadrīs/, تعليم {m} /taʿlīm/ |
| schoolteacher {n} (schoolteacher) SEE: teacher | :: |
| school uniform {n} (uniform items to be worn by students in a school) | :: زي مدرسي {m} /zī madrasiyy/ |
| schooner {n} (sailing ship) | :: سكونة |
| Schrödinger's cat {prop} (thought experiment) | :: قطة شرودنغر {f} /qiṭṭa(t) šrūdinḡir/ |
| Schubert {prop} (surname) | :: شوبرت {m} {f} /šubert/ |
| schwa {n} (indeterminate central vowel) | :: شوا /šwā/ |
| Schwarzenegger {prop} (surname of German-speakers) | :: شوارزنيجر /šwārzinījar/ |
| sciatica {n} (neuralgia of the sciatic nerve) | :: عرق النساء |
| science {n} (collective discipline of learning acquired through the scientific method) | :: علم {m} /ʿilm/ |
| science {n} (particular discipline or branch of learning) | :: علم {m} /ʿilm/ |
| science fiction {n} (fiction) | :: خيال علمي {m} /ḵayāl ʿilmiyy/ |
| scientia potentia est {proverb} (knowledge is power) SEE: knowledge is power | :: |
| scientific {adj} (of or having to do with science) | :: علمي /ʿilmiyy/ |
| scientific method {n} (method of discovering knowledge) | :: المنهج العلمي {m} /al-manhaj al-ʿilmiyy/ |
| scientist {n} (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) | :: عالم {m} /ʿālim/, عالمة {f} /ʿālima/ |
| scientocracy {n} (members of an elite community of scientists) | :: سياسة عامة علمية /siyāsa ʿāmma ʿilmiyya/ |
| scimitar {n} (sword with curved blade) | :: سيف {m} /sayf/ |
| scissors {n} (tool used for cutting) | :: مقص {m} /miqaṣṣ/ |
| sclera {n} (white of the eye) | :: بياض العين {m} /bayāḍ al-ʿayn/ |
| scold {v} (rebuke) | :: وبخ /wabaḵḵa/ |
| scooter {n} (type of small two-wheeled vehicle, see also: motorscooter) | :: سكوتر {m} /skūtar/, بسكليتة {f} /biskilitta/ |
| scope {n} (breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain) | :: حيز {m} /ḥayyiz/ |
| score {v} (to score) SEE: strike | :: |
| score {n} (number of points earned) | :: إصابة {f} /ʾiṣāba/ |
| scores {pron} (many) SEE: many | :: |
| Scorpio {prop} (astrological sign) | :: برج العقرب /burj al-ʿaqrab/, العقرب {m} /al-ʿaqrab/ |
| Scorpio {prop} (constellation) SEE: Scorpius | :: |
| scorpion {n} (any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones) | :: عقرب {m} /ʿaqrab/ |
| Scorpius {prop} (astrological sign) SEE: Scorpio | :: |
| Scorpius {prop} (constellation) | :: برج العقرب /burj al-ʿaqrab/, العقرب {m} /al-ʿaqrab/ |
| Scotch crow {n} (hooded crow) SEE: hooded crow | :: |
| Scotland {prop} (country in northwest Europe to the north of England) | :: اسكتلندا {f} /iskutlandā/ |
| Scotland Yard {prop} (headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Metropolitan Police Force) | :: سكوتلاند يارد {m} /skūtlānd yārd/ |
| Scots Gaelic {n} (Scottish Gaelic) SEE: Scottish Gaelic | :: |
| Scottish {adj} (of a person) | :: إسكوتلندي |
| Scottish {adj} (of a thing or concept) | :: إسكوتلندي |
| Scottish Gaelic {n} (The Gaelic language of Scotland) | :: الأسكتلندية {f} /al-ʾuskutlandiyya/ |
| scoundrel {n} (villain) | :: وغد {m} /waḡd/, نذل {m} /naḏl/, أزعر {m} /ʾazʿar/, شرير {m} /širrīr/, ملط {m} /milṭ/, وضيع {m} /waḍīʿ/, شقي {m} /šaqiyy/ |
| scourge {n} (persistent pest, illness, or source of trouble) | :: وباء, بلوى /balwā/ |
| scourge {n} (a whip often of leather) | :: سوط |
| scowl {v} (to wrinkle the brows) | :: عبس /ʿabasa/ |
| scowl {v} (to look gloomy) | :: عبس /ʿabasa/ |
| scram {v} (go away) | :: غرب /ḡaraba/ |
| scrap {v} (to discard) | :: يتخلى, نبذ |
| scrap {v} (to fight) | :: شجار |
| scratch {v} (to rub a surface with a sharp object) | :: خربش /ḵarbaša/ |
| scream {v} (to make the sound of a scream) | :: صرخ /ṣaraḵa/ |
| screen {n} (physical divider) | :: حجاب /ḥijāb/, ستارة {f} /sitāra/, حاجز /ḥājiz/ |
| screen {n} (viewing area of electronic output device) | :: شاشة {f} /šāša/ |
| screen {n} (movie viewing area) | :: شاشة {f} /šāša/ |
| screenplay {n} (script for a movie or a television show) | :: سيناريو {m} /sināryū/ |
| screen printing {n} (printing method) | :: طباعة الشاشة الحريرية |
| screensaver {n} | :: حافظ شاشة {m} /ḥāfiẓ šāša/ |
| screenwriter {n} (one who writes for the screen) | :: كاتب السيناريو {m} /kātib as-sināryū/ |
| screw {n} (simple machine) | :: لولب {m} /lawlab/ |
| screw {n} (fastener) | :: برغي {m} /burḡiyy/, قلاووظ {m} /qalāwūẓ/ |
| screwdriver {n} (tool) | :: مفك البراغي {m} /mifakk al-barāḡiyy/ |
| screw pine {n} (Pandanus spp.) | :: كاذي {m} /kāḏiyy/ |
| scribe {n} (one who writes; a draughtsman) | :: ناسخ {m} /nāsiḵ/, كاتب {m} /kātib/ |
| script {n} (writing; written document) | :: كتابة {f} /kitāba/ |
| script {n} (written characters, style of writing) | :: كتابة {f} /kitāba/ |
| script {n} (text of the dialogue and action for a drama) | :: سيناريو {m} /sināryū/ |
| Scripture {prop} (Tanakh) SEE: Tanakh | :: |
| Scripture {prop} (Bible) SEE: Bible | :: |
| scriptwriter {n} (screenwriter) SEE: screenwriter | :: |
| scrofulous {adj} (morally degenerate; corrupt) SEE: corrupt | :: |
| scroll {n} (roll of paper or parchment) | :: طومار {m} /ṭūmār/ |
| scrotum {n} (the bag of the skin and muscle that contains the testicles) | :: صفن {m} /ṣafan/, كيس الصفن {m} /kīs aṣ-ṣafan/, كيس {m} /kīs/ |
| sculptor {n} (a person who sculpts) | :: نحات {m} /naḥḥāt/, مثال {m} /maṯṯāl/ |
| sculpture {n} (art of sculpting) | :: نحت {m} /naḥt/ |
| sculpture {n} (work of art created by sculpting) | :: تمثال {m} /timṯāl/ |
| scumbag {n} (condom) SEE: condom | :: |
| scythe {n} (farm tool) | :: منجل {m} /minjal/ |
| Scythia {prop} (region of Central Eurasia) | :: سكيثيا /sakīṯiyā/, سقيثيا /saqīṯiyā/, سيثيا /sīṯiyā/, سكيا /sakiyā/ |
| sea {n} (body of water) | :: بحر {m} /baḥr/, يم {m} /yam/ |
| sea anemone {n} (polyp) | :: شقيقة نعمان البحر {f} /šaqīqa(t) nuʿmāni l-baḥri/ |
| seaborgium {n} (chemical element with atomic number 106) | :: سيبورجيوم {m} /sīborgiyūm/ |
| sea buckthorn {n} (shrub of the genus Hippophae) | :: أبو قايس {m} /ʾabū qāyis/, شوك القصار {m} /šawk al-qaṣṣār/, غاسول {m} /ḡāsūl/ |
| seafarer {n} (sailor) SEE: sailor | :: |
| seafood {n} (fish, shellfish, seaweed and other edible aquatic life) | :: مأكولات بحرية {m-p} /maʾkūlāt baḥriyya/, طعام البحر {m} /ṭaʿām al-baḥr/ |
| seagrass {n} (grasslike marine plants) | :: نجيل بحري |
| seagull {n} (bird of the family Laridae) | :: نورس {m} /nawras/ |
| sea holly {n} (Eryngium) | :: قرصعنة {f} /qarṣaʿanna/, شنداب {m} /šindāb/ |
| sea horse {n} (walrus) SEE: walrus | :: |
| sea horse {n} (fish) | :: فرس بحر {m} /faras baḥr/ |
| seal {n} (pinniped) | :: فقمة {f} /fuqma/ |
| seal {n} (stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance) | :: ختم {m} /ḵatm/ |
| seal {n} (design or insignia associated with organization or official role) | :: ختم {m} /ḵatm/ |
| sea lion {n} (member of the Otariidae family) | :: أسد بحر {m} /ʾasad baḥr/, كلب البحر {m} /kalb al-baḥr/ |
| seam {n} (folded back and stitched piece of fabric) | :: درز {m} /darz/ |
| seaman {n} (mariner or sailor) SEE: sailor | :: |
| seamster {n} (person who sews clothes) | :: خياط {m} /ḵayyāṭ/ |
| Sea of Azov {prop} (sea) | :: بحر آزوف {m} /baḥr ʾāzūf/ |
| Sea of Galilee {prop} (lake in northern Israel) | :: بحيرة طبرية {f} /buḥayra(t) ṭabariyya/ |
| Sea of Japan {prop} (the sea between Japan and the rest of Asia) | :: بحر اليابان {m} /baḥr al-yābān/ |
| Sea of Okhotsk {prop} (sea) | :: بحر أوخوتسك {m} /baḥr ʾuḵutsk/ |
| sea onion {n} (Drimia maritima) | :: إشقيل {m} /ʾišqīl/, بصل الفأر {m} /baṣal al-faʾr/, عنصل {m} /ʿunṣul/ |
| search {v} (to search) SEE: look | :: |
| search {n} (an attempt to find something) | :: طلب {m} /ṭalab/, بحث {m} /baḥṯ/ |
| search {v} (to look throughout (a place) for something) | :: بحث /baḥaṯa/, فتش /fattaša/ |
| search {v} ((followed by "for") to look thoroughly) | :: بحث عن /baḥaṯa ʿan/ |
| search engine {n} (application that searches for data) | :: محرك البحث {m} /muḥarrik al-baḥṯ/ |
| searocket {n} (Cakile) | :: إسليح {m} /ʾislīḥ/ |
| seashell {n} (shell) | :: صدفة {f} /ṣadafa/, صدفة بحرية {f} /ṣadafa baḥriyya/, محارة {f} /maḥāra/ |
| sea-sickness {n} (seasickness) SEE: seasickness | :: |
| seasickness {n} (a feeling of nausea caused by the motion of a ship) | :: دوار البحر {m} /duwār al-baḥr/ |
| season {n} (quarter of a year) | :: فصل /faṣl/ |
| season {n} (part of year with something special) | :: موسم {m} /mawsim/ |
| seasoning {n} (cooking ingredient) | :: بهار {m} /bahār/ |
| seat {n} (place in which to sit) | :: مقعد {m} /maqʿad/ |
| seat belt {n} (restraining belt) | :: حزام أمان /ḥizām ʾamān/ |
| Seattle {prop} (city in Washington state, USA) | :: سياتل {m} /siyātal/ |
| sea urchin {n} (any of many marine echinoderms of the class Echinoidea) | :: قنفذ البحر {m} /qunfuḏ al-baḥr/ |
| seaweed {n} (marine plants and algae) | :: عشب بحري {m} /ʿušb baḥriyy/ |
| sebaceous gland {n} (gland of skin secreting sebum) | :: غدة دهنية |
| secession {n} (The act of seceding) | :: إنشقاق {m} /ʾinšiqāq/ |
| second {adj} (second (numeral), see also: 2nd) | :: ثان /ṯānin/, الثاني /aṯ-ṯānī/ |
| second {n} (one-sixtieth of a minute; SI unit of time) | :: ثانية {f} /ṯāniya/ |
| second hand {adj} (secondhand) SEE: secondhand | :: |
| secondhand {adj} (not new; previously owned and used by another) | :: مستعمل /mustaʿmal/ |
| second-hand smoke {n} (smoke from cigarettes, that any person including non-smokers could breathe in) | :: التدخين السلبي /at-tadḵaīn as-salbiyy/ |
| second person {n} (the form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience) | :: مخاطب {m} /muḵāṭab/ |
| second to none {n} (heroin) SEE: heroin | :: |
| Second World War {prop} (World War II) SEE: World War II | :: |
| secrecy {n} (concealment) | :: سرية {f} /sirriyya/ |
| secret {n} (knowledge that is hidden) | :: سر {m} /sirr/ |
| secret {adj} (being or kept hidden.) | :: سري /sirriyy/ |
| secretary {n} (person keeping records and handling clerical work) | :: سكرتير {m} /sekretēr/, سكرتيرة {f} /sekretēra/, كاتب {m} /kātib/, كاتبة {f} /kātiba/ |
| secretary bird {n} (member of bird family) | :: الكاتب {m} /ak-kateb/ |
| secretive {adj} (having an inclination to secrecy) | :: كتوم /katūm/, متحفظ /mutaḥaffiẓ/, متكتم /mutakattim/ |
| secretly {adv} (in a secret manner) | :: سرا /sirran/ |
| secret police {n} (police operating outside normal boundaries of law) | :: بوليس سري {m} /būlīs sirriyy/ |
| sect {n} (religious movement) | :: فرقة {f} /firqa/, مذهب /maḏhab/, طائفة {f} /ṭāʾifa/, نحلة {f} /niḥla/ |
| sectarianism {n} (rigid adherence to a particular sect, party or denomination) | :: طائفية {f} /ṭāʾifiyya/ |
| section {n} (cutting, part cut out) | :: قسم {m} /qism/, جزء {m} /juzʾ/ |
| sector {n} (section) | :: قطاع {m} /qiṭāʿ/ |
| secular {adj} (not specifically religious) | :: دنيوي /dunyawiyy/, علماني /ʿalmāniyy/ |
| secularism {n} (neutrality towards all religions) | :: علمانية {f} /ʿalmāniyya/, لائكية {f} /lāʾikiyya/ |
| security {n} (condition of not being threatened) | :: أمن {m} /ʾamn/, أمان {f} /ʾamān/, سلامة {f} /salāma/ |
| security {n} (something that secures) | :: حماية {f} /ḥimāya/ |
| Security Council {prop} (UN Security Council) SEE: UN Security Council | :: |
| sedimentary rock {n} (one of the major groups of rock that makes up the crust of the Earth) | :: صخر رسوبي /ṣaḵr rusūbiyy/ |
| sedition {n} (insurrection or rebellion) | :: فتنة /fitna/ |
| seduce {v} (to entice or induce someone to engage in a sexual relationship) | :: أغرى /ʾaḡrā/, أغوى /ʾaḡwā/ |
| seductress {n} (woman who seduces) | :: غاوية {f} /ḡāwiya/ |
| see {v} (perceive with the eyes) | :: رأى /raʾā/, عاين /ʿāyana/ |
| seed {n} (fertilized grain) | :: بذرة {f} /biḏra/, زريعة {f} /zarīʿa/ |
| seed {n} (semen) | :: مني {m} /many/ |
| seedling {n} (young plant grown from seed) | :: شتلة {f} /šatla/ |
| seeing {adj} (having vision; not blind) | :: بصير /baṣīr/, مبصر /mubṣir/ |
| seeing {n} (the action of the verb to see; eyesight) | :: رؤية {f} /ruʾya/ |
| seeing {conj} (inasmuch as; in view of the fact) | :: نظرا ل /naẓaran li-/ |
| seek {v} (to try to find) | :: بحث /baḥaṯa/, طلب /ṭalaba/ |
| seel {v} (To blind) SEE: blind | :: |
| seem {v} (to appear, to seem) SEE: look | :: |
| seem {v} (to appear) | :: بدا /badā/ ( يبدو /yabdū/), ظهر /ẓahara/ |
| seemingly {adv} (apparently) SEE: apparently | :: |
| see off {v} (to defeat) SEE: defeat | :: |
| seethe {v} (to foam in an agitated manner, as if boiling) | :: هاج /hāja/, غلى /ḡalā/, فار /fāra/ |
| see-through {adj} (transparent) SEE: transparent | :: |
| see ya {interj} (see you) SEE: see you | :: |
| see you {phrase} (see you later) | :: سلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته /salām ʿalaykum waraḥmat allāh wabarakātuhu/, سلام /salām/, إلى اللقاء قريبا /ʾilā l-liqāʾ qarīban/ |
| see you later {phrase} (goodbye) | :: إلى اللقاء /ʾilā l-liqāʾ/, باي /bay/, باي باي /bay bay/ , إلى اللقاء قريبا /ʾilā l-liqāʾ qarīban/ |
| see you soon {interj} (goodbye) | :: أراك قريبا /ʾarāka qarīban/, , إلى اللقاء قريبا /ʾilā l-liqāʾ qarīban/ |
| see you tomorrow {phrase} (see you tomorrow) | :: أراك غدا /ʾarāka ḡadan/ |
| Sega {prop} (Japanese videogame developer) | :: سيجا {f} /sēja/, سيگا {f} /sēga/ |
| Segorbe {prop} (municipality in Castellón, Spain) | :: سيجوربي |
| Segovia {prop} (city in Castile and León, Spain) | :: شقوبية /šiqūbiyya/ |
| Seine {prop} (river of northern France) | :: السين {m} /as-sīn/ |
| seismology {n} (the study of the vibration of the Earth's interior) | :: علم الزلازل {m} /ʿilm az-zalāzil/ |
| seize {v} (grab) | :: إستولى على /ʾistawlā ʿalā/ |
| sejunct {adj} (separate) SEE: separate | :: |
| Sekhmet {prop} (ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility) | :: سخمت {f} |
| Selangor {prop} (western Malaysian state) | :: سلانغور دار الإحسان {f} /salanghur darul-ʾehsān/ |
| seldom {adv} (infrequently, rarely) | :: نادرا /nādiran/ |
| select {v} (to choose one or more elements from a set) | :: اختار /iḵtāra/ |
| Selenite {n} (inhabitant of the Moon) SEE: Lunarian | :: |
| selenium {n} (chemical element) | :: سلينيوم {m} /silinyum/ |
| self {n} (individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness) | :: نفس /nafs/ |
| self-confidence {n} (measure of one's belief in one's own abilities) | :: ثقة في النفس {f} /thiqqa fin-nefs/ |
| selfie {n} (photographic self-portrait) | :: سلفي {m} /silfī/, سيلفي {m} /silfi, sīlfī/, صورة ذاتية {f} /ṣūra(t) ḏātiyya/ |
| selfish {adj} (regard for oneself above others' well-being) | :: أناني /ʾanāniyy/ |
| Seljuk {adj} (Of or pertaining to the Seljuk dynasty) | :: سلجوقي {m} /saljūqiyy/, سلجوقية {f} /saljūqiyya/ |
| sell {v} (to agree to transfer goods or provide services) | :: باع /bāʿa/ |
| sell {v} (to be sold) | :: انباع /inbāʿa/, بيع /bīʿa/ |
| sellable {adj} (saleable) SEE: saleable | :: |
| seller {n} (someone who sells) | :: بائع {m} /bāʾiʿ/ |
| selling {n} (action of the verb to sell) | :: بيع {m} /bayʿ/ |
| sellout {n} (a person who compromises his or her principles) | :: مأجور {m} /maʾjuwrun/ |
| sell short {v} (to underestimate the value of something) SEE: underestimate | :: |
| Selma {prop} (female given name) | :: سلمى {f} /salmā/ |
| semantic {adj} (of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words) | :: دلالات الألفاظ |
| semantics {n} (science of the meaning of words) | :: علم المعاني {m} /ʿilm al-maʿānī/ |
| semen {n} (semen (fluid)) SEE: sperm | :: |
| semen {n} (male reproductory fluid) | :: مني {m} /maniyy/ |
| semester {n} (half of school year) | :: فصل دراسي {m} /faṣl dirāsiyy/, نصف سنة {m} /niṣf sana/, فصل أكاديمي {m} /faṣl ʾakādīmiyy/ |
| semi- {prefix} (half (prefix)) | :: شبه /šibh/ |
| semicolon {n} (punctuation mark ';') | :: فاصلة منقوطة {f} /fāṣila manqūṭa/, ؛ /-/ |
| semiconductor {n} (substance with electrical properties between conductor and insulator) | :: شبه موصل {m} /šabah muwaṣṣil/ |
| semiconsonant {n} (semivowel) SEE: semivowel | :: |
| seminal vesicle {n} (seminal vesicle) | :: حويصلة منوية {f} /ḥuwayṣila manawiyya/ |
| semiotics {n} (study of signs) | :: سميوطيقا |
| Semite {n} (descendant of any of these peoples) | :: سامي {m} /sāmiyy/, سامية {f} /sāmiyya/ |
| Semitic {adj} (pertaining to the Semitic subdivision of Afroasiatic languages) | :: سامي /sāmiyy/ |
| semivowel {n} (sound in speech) | :: أشباه العلل /ʾašbāhu l-ʿilali/ |
| Semnan {prop} (northern province of Iran) | :: سمنان |
| semolina {n} (hard grains of flour left after milling) | :: سميذ {m} /samīḏ/ |
| senate {n} (the upper house in some bicameral legislative systems) | :: مجلس الشيوخ {m} /majlis aš-šuyūḵ/ |
| Senate {prop} (legislative body) | :: مجلس {m} /majlis/, مجلس أعلى {m} /majlis ʾaʿlā/ |
| Senate {prop} (Roman senate) | :: مجلس الشيوخ الروماني {m} /majlis aš-šuyūḵ ar-rūmāniyy/ |
| senator {n} (member in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate) | :: سناتور {m} /sinātūr/ |
| send {v} (make something go somewhere) | :: أرسل /ʾarsala/ |
| Sendai {prop} (a city of Japan) | :: سنداي {m} /sinday/ |
| Senegal {prop} (Republic of Senegal) | :: السنغال {f} /as-sinḡāl/ |
| sense {n} (manner by which living beings perceive the physical world) | :: حاسة {f} /ḥāssa/ |
| sense {n} (conscious awareness) | :: إحساس {m} /ʾiḥsās/, شعور {m} /šuʿūr/ |
| sense {n} (meaning or reason) | :: معنى {m} /maʿnan/ |
| sense {n} (natural ability) | :: موهبة {f} /mawhiba/, قدرة طبيعية {f} /qudra(t) ṭabīʿiyya/ |
| sense {n} (semantics term) | :: معنى {m} /maʿnā/, دلالة {f} /dalāla/ |
| sensei {n} (martial arts instructor) | :: مدرب {m} /mudarrib/ |
| sensitive {adj} (responsive to stimuli) | :: حساس /ḥassās/ |
| sensory {adj} (of the senses or sensation) | :: حسي {m} /ḥissiyy/, حسية {f} /ḥissiyya/ |
| sentence {n} (decision of a jury) | :: حكم {m} /ḥukm/ |
| sentence {n} (grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate) | :: جملة {f} /jumla/ |
| Seongnam {prop} (a city in South Korea) | :: سيونغنام {m} /syunḡnām/ |
| Seoul {prop} (capital of South Korea) | :: سيئول {f} /sīʾūl/, سيول {f} /siyūl/, سول {f} /sōl/ |
| sepal {n} (part of calyx) | :: سبلة {f} /sabala/, كأسية {f} /kaʾsiyya/ |
| separate {adj} (apart from; not connected to) | :: منفصل /munfaṣil/ |
| separate {v} (to disunite, disconnect) | :: فصل /faṣala/ |
| separation of concerns {n} (programming: separating a computer program into distinct features) | :: فصل الاهتمامات {m} /faṣlu l-ihtimāmāt/ |
| separatism {n} (separatism) | :: انفصالية {f} /infiṣāliyya/, انشقاقية {f} /inšiqāqiyya/ |
| separatist {n} (political separatist) | :: انشقاقي {m} /inšiqāqiyy/, منشق {m} /munšaqq/ |
| Sephardi {n} (a Jew of Iberian ancestry, whose native language was Ladino) | :: سفاردي {m} /sifārdiyy/ |
| Sephardic {adj} (relating to the culture of the Sephardi Jews) | :: سفاردي /sifārdiyy/ |
| sepia {n} (cuttlefish) SEE: cuttlefish | :: |
| seppuku {n} (ritual suicide by disembowelment) | :: هارا كيري {m} /hārā kīrī/ |
| September {prop} (ninth month of the Gregorian calendar) | :: سبتمبر {m} /sibtimbir/, سبتمبر {m} /sibtambir/, سبتمبر {m} /sabtambar/, أيلول {m} /ʾaylūl/ |
| Septuagint {prop} (an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek) | :: الترجمة السبعينية {f} /at-tarjama s-sabʿīniyya/ |
| sepulchre {n} (burial chamber) | :: قبر {m} /qabr/ |
| sequent {adj} (that comes after) SEE: subsequent | :: |
| Sequoyah {prop} (Inventor of the syllabary for writing Cherokee) | :: سيكويا |
| Serb {n} (person of Serb descent, see also: Serbian) | :: صربي {m} /ṣarbiyy/, صربية {f} /ṣarbiyya/ |
| Serbia {prop} (a country in southeastern Europe) | :: صربيا {f} /ṣirbiyā/, الصرب {f} /aṣ-ṣirb/ |
| Serbia and Montenegro {prop} (former country on the Balkan Peninsula) | :: صربيا والجبل الأسود /ṣirbiyā wa-l-jabal al-ʾaswad/ |
| Serbian {n} (person from Serbia, see also: Serb) | :: صربي {m} /ṣirbiyy/, صربية {f} /ṣirbiyya/ |
| Serbian {n} (the standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian) | :: الصربية {f} /aṣ-ṣirbiyya/ |
| Serbian {adj} (pertaining to Serbia and Serbians) | :: صربي /ṣirbiyy/ |
| Serbian {n} (Serb) SEE: Serb | :: |
| Serbo-Croatian {n} (South Slavic language) | :: صربو-كرواتي {m} /ṣarbū-kuruwātiyy/ |
| Serbo-Croatian {adj} (pertaining to the Serbo-Croatian language) | :: صربو-كرواتي /ṣarbū-kuruwātiyy/ |
| serenity {n} (state) | :: سكينة الروح {f} /sakīnat ar-rūḥ/, صفاء {f} /ṣafāʾ/ |
| serf {n} (semifree peasant) | :: قن {m} /qinn/ |
| sergeant {n} (non-commissioned officer rank) | :: رقيب {m} /raqīb/, عريف {m} /ʿarīf/ |
| Sergey {prop} (transliteration of Сергей) | :: سيرجي {m} /sergey/ |
| Sergius {prop} (male given name) | :: سركيس {m} /sarkīs/, سرجون {m} /sarjūn/ |
| serial killer {n} (person who commits multiple murders) | :: قاتل متسلسل {m} /qātil mutasalsil/ |
| sericulture {n} (rearing of silkworms for the production of silk) | :: إنتاج الحرير من دودة القز |
| series {n} (television or radio program) | :: مسلسلات تلفزيونية {f-p} /musalsalāt tilifizyūniyya/ , مسلسلات {p} /musalsilāt/ |
| series {n} (in analysis: sum of the terms of a sequence) | :: متسلسلة {f} /mutasalsila/, سلسلة {f} /silsila/ |
| serigraphy {n} (printing method) SEE: screen printing | :: |
| serious {adj} (without humor or expression of happiness) | :: جدي /jiddiyy/ |
| serious {adj} (important; weighty; not trifling; leaving no room for play) | :: جدي /jaddiyy/, جاد /jādd/ |
| serious {adj} (really intending what is said; being in earnest) | :: جدي /jaddiyy/, جاد /jādd/ |
| seriously {adv} (in a serious or literal manner) | :: بجدية /bi-jiddiyya/ |
| seriousness {n} (state of being serious) | :: جدية {f} /jiddiyya/ |
| sermon {n} (religious discourse) | :: موعظة {f} /mawʿiẓa/, خطبة {f} /ḵuṭba/, وعظ {m} /waʿẓ/ |
| serpent {n} (snake) | :: ثعبان {m} /ṯuʿbān/, حنش {m} /ḥanaš/, حية {f} /ḥayya/, أفعى {f} /ʾafʿā/ |
| Serpentarius {prop} (Ophiuchus) SEE: Ophiuchus | :: |
| serpentinite {n} (metamorphic rock) | :: سربنتينيت |
| serum {n} (yellowish fluid obtained from blood) | :: مصل دم {m} /maṣl dam/, مصل {m} /maṣl/ |
| servant {n} (one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation) | :: خادم {m} /ḵādim/, خادمة {f} /ḵādima/, خدم /ḵadam/, فراش {m} /farrāš/, عبد {m} /ʿabd/ |
| serve {v} (to work for) | :: خدم /ḵadama/ |
| serve {v} (to bring food to) | :: قدم /qaddama/ |
| serve {v} (to be a servant) | :: خدم /ḵadama/ |
| serve {v} (to be in service) | :: خدم /ḵadama/ |
| server {n} (computing: a program which provides services to other programs or users) | :: خادم {m} /ḵādim/, ملقم {m} /mulaqqim/ |
| server {n} (computing: a computer dedicated to running server programs) | :: خادم {m} /ḵādim/ |
| server {n} | :: نادل {m} /nādil/, خادم {m} /ḵādim/ |
| serve someone right {v} (serves you right!) | :: يخدم لكم الحق |
| Servian {adj} (Serbian) SEE: Serbian | :: |
| Servian {n} (Serbian) SEE: Serbian | :: |
| Servian {prop} (Serbian) SEE: Serbian | :: |
| service {n} (practice of providing services as economic activity) | :: خدمة {f} /ḵidma/, خدمة {f} /ḵidma/ |
| service {n} (service tree) SEE: service tree | :: |
| service station {n} (gas station) SEE: gas station | :: |
| service tree {n} (Sorbus domestica) | :: غبيراء {f} /ḡubayrāʾ/ |
| service tree {n} (Sorbus torminalis) SEE: wild service tree | :: |
| serviette {n} (napkin) SEE: napkin | :: |
| sesame {n} (plant) | :: سمسم {m} /simsim/ |
| sesame {n} (seed) | :: سمسم {m} /simsim/ |
| sesame oil {n} (oil extracted from sesame seeds) | :: زيت سمسم {m} /zayt simsim/, زيت السمسم {m} /zayt as-simsim/, شيرج {m} /šīraj/, سيرج {m} /sīraj/ |
| sesamoid bone {n} (small bone embedded within tendon) | :: رضفة {f} /raḍafa/ |
| session {n} (period devoted to a particular activity) | :: جلسة {f} /jalsa/ |
| set {v} (of a heavenly body: to disappear below the horizon) | :: غرب /ḡaraba/ |
| set {n} (set theory: collection of objects) | :: مجموعة {f} |
| set {v} (to sit) SEE: sit | :: |
| Set {prop} (Egyptian god) | :: ست {m} /set/, ست {m} /sat/, ست {m} /sit/ |
| set forth {v} (to start) SEE: start | :: |
| Seth {prop} (Egyptian god) | :: ست {m} /set/, ست {m} /sat/, ست {m} /sit/ |
| setting pole {n} (pole for pushing out boats, see also: gaff; hook; pike pole; boathook) | :: مردي {m} /murdiyy/ |
| settle {v} (to fix one's dwelling) | :: استعمر /istaʿmara/, استوطن /istawṭana/, استقر /istaqarra/ |
| settle down {v} (to establish a settled lifestyle) | :: استقر /istaqarra/ |
| settlement {n} (newly established colony) | :: مستعمرة {f} /mustaʿmara/, مستوطنة {f} /mustawṭana/ |
| settler {n} (someone who settles in a new location) | :: مستوطن {m} /mustawṭin/, مستعمر {m} /mustaʿmir/, معمر {m} /muʿammir/ |
| Sevastopol {prop} (city) | :: سيفاستوبول {m} /sifastūbul/ |
| seven {num} (cardinal number 7) | :: سبعة /sabʿa/, (numeral: ٧ /7/) |
| seven deadly sins {n} (the cardinal sins) | :: الخطايا السبع المميتة /al-ḵaṭāyā s-sabʿu l-mumītatu/ |
| seven hundred {num} (cardinal number 700) | :: سبعمئة /sabʿumiʾa/, سبعما۟ئة /sabʿumiʾa/ |
| sevennight {n} (period of seven consecutive days and nights) SEE: week | :: |
| seven o'clock {n} (the start of the eighth hour) | :: الساعة السابعة {f} /as-sāʿa s-sābiʿa/ |
| seven seas {n} (all of the Earths oceans) | :: البحار السبعة /al-biḥār as-sabʿa/ |
| seventeen {num} (cardinal number) | :: سبعة عشر /sabʿata ʿašara/ |
| seventh {adj} (ordinal form of the number seven, see also: 7th) | :: سابع {m} /sābiʿ/, سابعة {f} /sābiʿa/ |
| seventh {n} (one of seven equal parts of a whole) | :: سبع /subʿ/ |
| seven thousand {num} (7,000) | :: سبعة آلاف /sabʿa(t) ʾālāf/ |
| seventy {num} (cardinal number) | :: سبعين /sabʿīna/, سبعون /sabʿūn/ |
| seventy-eight {num} (78) | :: ثمانية وسبعون /ṯamāniya wa-sabʿūn/, ٧٨ /78/ |
| seventy-five {num} (75) | :: خمسة وسبعون /ḵamsa wa-sabʿūn/ |
| seventy-four {num} (74) | :: أربعة وسبعون /ʾarbaʿa wa-sabʿūn/ |
| seventy-nine {num} (79) | :: تسعة وسبعون /tisʿa wa-sabʿūn/ |
| seventy-one {num} (71) | :: واحد وسبعون /wāḥid wa-sabʿūn/ |
| seventy-seven {num} (77) | :: سبعة وسبعون /sabʿa wa-sabʿūn/ |
| seventy-six {num} (76) | :: ستة وسبعون /sitta wa-sabʿūn/ |
| seventy-three {num} (73) | :: ثلاثة وسبعون /ṯalāṯa wa-sabʿūn/ |
| seventy-two {num} (72) | :: اثنان وسبعون /iṯnān wa-sabʿūn/ |
| seven virtues {n} (seven heavenly virtues) | :: سبع فضائل سماوية /sabʿ faḍāʾil samāwiyya/ |
| several {determiner} (consisting of a number more than two, but not very many) | :: بعض /baʿḍ/, عدة /ʿidda/ |
| several {determiner} | :: عديد /ʿadīd/ |
| severe {adj} | :: قاس /qá:si/ |
| Seville {prop} (city in Andalusia, Spain) | :: إشبيلية {f} /ʾišbīliya/, حمص الأندلس /ḥimṣ al-ʾandalus/ |
| Seville orange {n} (Seville orange) SEE: bitter orange | :: |
| sew {v} ((transitive) use a needle) | :: , خاط /ḵāṭa/, خيط /ḵayyaṭa/ |
| sew {v} ((intransitive) use a needle) | :: خاط /ḵāṭa/ |
| sewer {n} (pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage) | :: بالوعة /bālūʿa/ |
| sewing {n} (action of the verb to sew) | :: خياطة {f} /ḵiyāṭa/ |
| sewing machine {n} (device) | :: ماكينة خياطة {f} /makīnat ḵiyāṭa/ |
| sex {n} (act of sexual intercourse) | :: جماع {m} /jimāʿ/, مجامعة {f} /mujāmaʿa/, تسافد {m} /tasāfud/, سيكس {m} /sīks/ |
| sex {n} (gender (female or male)) | :: جنس /jins/ |
| sex appeal {n} (sexual attractiveness) | :: انجذاب جنسي {m} /injiḏāb jinsiyy/, جاذبية جنسية {f} /jāḏibiyya jinsiyya/ |
| sex drive {n} (tendency to engage in sexual activity) | :: رغبة جنسية {f} /raḡba jinsiyya/ |
| sexology {n} (study of sex and sexuality) | :: طب جنسي {m} /ṭibb jinsiyy/ |
| sex organ {n} (organ used in sexual reproduction) | :: عضو جنسي {m} /ʿuḍw jinsiyy/ |
| sex position {n} (sex position) | :: وضع جنسي {m} /waḍʿ jinsiyy/ |
| sex shop {n} (shop that sells sexual merchandise) | :: محل الجنس {m} /maḥall al-jins/, سيكس شوب {m} /siks šub/ |
| sext {n} (noon) SEE: noon | :: |
| sexual {adj} (of or relating to having sex) | :: جنسي /jinsiyy/ |
| sexual {adj} | :: جنسي /jinsiyy/ |
| sexual harassment {n} (sexual harassment) | :: تحرش جنسي {m} /taḥarruš jinsiyy/ |
| sexual intercourse {n} (sexual interaction) | :: جماع {m} /jimāʿ/, مجامعة {f} /mujāmaʿa/, مضاجعة {f} /muḍājaʿa/ |
| sexual intercourse {n} (coitus) SEE: copulation | :: |
| sexuality {n} (sexual orientation) SEE: sexual orientation | :: |
| sexuality {n} (that which is characterized or distinguished by sex) | :: جنسية {f} /jinsiyya/ |
| sexuality {n} (concern with or interest in sexual activity) | :: جنسية {f} /jinsiyya/ |
| sexuality {n} (sexual identity) | :: جنس {m} /jins/, هوية جنسية {f} /huwiyya(t) jinsiyya/ |
| sexually transmitted disease {n} (disease contracted through sexual contact) | :: داء منقول جنسيا {m} /dāʾ manqūl jinsiyyan/ |
| sexual orientation {n} (sexual orientation) | :: توجه جنسي {m} /tawajjuh jinsiyy/ |
| sexual reproduction {n} (process whereby a new organism created by combining the genetic material of two organisms) | :: تكاثر جنسي /takāṯur jinsiyy/ |
| sexual slavery {n} (criminal activity) | :: الاستعباد الجنسي |
| sexy {adj} (having sexual appeal) | :: جذاب /jaḏḏāb/, جنسي /jinsiyy/, مثير للشهوة /muṯīr li-š-šahwa/, سيكسي /seksī/ |
| Seychelles {prop} (country in East Africa) | :: سيشيل {m} /sišīl/ |
| Sfax {prop} (Tunisian city) | :: صفاقس /ṣafāqis/ |
| Sha'aban {prop} (eighth month of the Islamic calendar) | :: شعبان {m} /šaʿbān/ |
| Shaanxi {prop} (province of northwest China) | :: شانشي {m} /šānšī/ |
| shabka {n} (Engagement ring) | :: شبكة |
| shackle {n} (stubble) SEE: stubble | :: |
| shadda {n} (diacritic used in the Arabic script) | :: شدة {f} /šadda/, تشديد {m} /tašdīd/ |
| shade {n} (darkness where light is blocked) | :: ظل {m} /ẓill/, مظلة {f} /maẓalla/, مظلة {f} /miẓalla/ |
| shadow {n} (dark image projected onto a surface) | :: ظل {m} /ẓill/ |
| shadow {n} (spirit, ghost) SEE: ghost | :: |
| Shafiite {n} | :: شافعي /šāfiʿiyy/ |
| shah {n} (king of Persia) | :: شاه {m} /šāh/ |
| shahada {n} (Islamic declaration of belief) | :: شهادة {f} /šahāda/ |
| shahanshah {n} (title of the rulers of ancient Persia: “king of kings”, see also: king of kings) | :: شاهنشاه /šāhanšāh/ |
| shaheed {n} (martyr) SEE: martyr | :: |
| Shahryar {prop} (Name of the fictional Persian Sassanid king) | :: شهريار {m} /šahrayār/ |
| shaitan {n} (Iblis, Satan in Islam) | :: شيطان {m} /šayṭān/ |
| shake {v} (transitive: to cause to move) | :: هز /hazza/ |
| shake {v} (intransitive: to move from side to side) | :: هز /hazza/ |
| shake {n} (beverage made of ice cream and carbonated drink) SEE: float | :: |
| shakedown {n} (extortion) SEE: extortion | :: |
| shake off {v} (to remove by shaking) | :: انتفض /intafaḍa/ |
| shake one's head {v} (move one's head from side to side) | :: هز رأسه /hazza raʾsahu/ |
| Shakespeare {prop} (English playwright) | :: شكسبير {m} /šaksbīr/ |
| shakshuka {n} | :: شكشوكة |
| shallot {n} (vegetable in the onion family, A. ascalonium or A. oschaninii) | :: كراث أندلسي {m} /kurrāṯ ʾandalusiyy/ |
| shallow {adj} (having little depth and significantly less deep than wide) | :: ضحل /ḍaḥil/ |
| shalom {interj} (transliteration of the Jewish greeting or farewell) | :: شلوم /šalōm/ |
| shalwar {n} (garment) | :: سروال {m} /sirwāl/ |
| shaman {n} (a medium between the concrete and spirit worlds) | :: شامان {m} /šāmān/, كاهن {m}, عراف |
| shamanism {n} (range of traditional beliefs) | :: شامانية {f} /šāmāniyya/ |
| shame {n} (uncomfortable or painful feeling) | :: خجل {m} /ḵajal/ |
| shameless {adj} (having no shame) | :: وقح {m} /waqiḥ/, صفيق {m} /ṣafīq/ |
| shame on you {interj} (expression of disapproval) | :: عيب عليك /ʿayb ʿalayka/, عار عليك /ʿārun ʿalayka/ |
| shamisen {n} (a Japanese musical instrument) | :: شاميسين /šāmīsīn/ |
| shampoo {n} (product for washing the hair or other fibres) | :: شامبو {m} /šāmbū/ |
| shampoo ginger {n} (plant related to ginger, Zingiber zerumbet) | :: زرنباد {m} /zurunbād/ |
| shamrock {n} (any of several small plants, forms of clover) SEE: clover | :: |
| Shandong {prop} (province of China) | :: شاندونغ {m} /šandunḡ/ |
| Shang-hai {prop} (Shanghai) SEE: Shanghai | :: |
| Shanghai {prop} (Chinese city as provincial-level municipality) | :: شانغهاي {m} /šānḡhāy/, شانغخاي {m} /šānḡḵāy/ |
| Shangri-La {n} (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace) | :: شانغريلا {f} /šanḡrilā/, شانغريلا {f} /šangrilā/ |
| shank {n} (lower part of the leg) | :: عرقوب {m} /ʿurqūb/ |
| Shan-t'ou {prop} (Shantou) SEE: Shantou | :: |
| Shantou {prop} (a city of China) | :: شانتو {m} /šantū/ |
| Shan-tung {prop} (Shandong) SEE: Shandong | :: |
| Shanxi {prop} (province of China) | :: شانشي {m} /šānšī/ |
| shape {n} (appearance or outline) | :: شكل {m} /šakl/, أشكال {m-p} /ʾaškāl/ |
| shapely {adj} (having a pleasing shape) | :: حسن /ḥasan/ |
| sharbat {n} (sherbet) SEE: sherbet | :: |
| shard {n} (piece of glass or pottery) | :: كسرة {f} /kisra/ |
| share {n} (portion of something) | :: نصيب {m} /naṣīb/ |
| share {n} (financial instrument) | :: سهم {m} /sahm/ |
| share {v} (to give) | :: شارك /šāraka/ |
| share {v} (to divide and distribute) | :: شارك /šāraka/ |
| share {n} (sharebone) SEE: pubis | :: |
| shareholder {n} (one who owns shares of stock) | :: مساهم {m} /musāhim/ |
| sharemarket {n} (stock market) SEE: stock market | :: |
| shareowner {n} (shareholder) SEE: shareholder | :: |
| shari'a {n} (Islamic religious law) | :: شريعة {f} /šarīʿa/ |
| sharif {n} (traditional Arab tribal title given to those who serve as the protector of the tribe and all tribal assets) | :: شريف /šarīf/ |
| Sharjah {prop} (one of the emirates of the United Arab Emirates) | :: الشارقة {f} /aš-šāriqa/ |
| Sharjah {prop} (city) | :: الشارقة {f} /aš-šāriqa/ |
| shark {n} (fish) | :: قرش {m} /qirš/, سمكة القرش {f} /samakatu l-qirš/; Tunisian: ركان {m} /rekān/ |
| Sharm el-Sheikh {prop} (city in Egypt) | :: شرم الشيخ {f} /šarm aš-šayḵ/ |
| sharp {adj} (able to cut easily) | :: حاد /ḥād/ |
| shashiya {n} (a Maghrebi brimless cap with a tassel and straight sides.) | :: شاشية {f} /šāšiyya/ |
| shashlik {n} (skewered dish) | :: شيشليك {m} /šišlīk/ |
| shave {v} (to remove hair from) | :: حلق /ḥalaqa/ |
| shaver {n} (boy) SEE: boy | :: |
| shaver {n} (barber) SEE: barber | :: |
| shaving brush {n} (brush for applying shaving cream) | :: فرشاة الحلاقة {f} /furšāh al-ḥilāqa/ |
| shawarma {n} (Middle Eastern sandwich-like wrap) | :: شاورما {f} /šāwirmā/, شاورما {f} /šāwarmā/ |
| shawl {n} (a square piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders) | :: شال {m} /šāl/ |
| Shawwal {prop} (tenth month of the Islamic calendar) | :: شوال {m} /šawwāl/ |
| Shazia {prop} (given name) | :: شاذية {f} |
| she {pron} (person) | :: هي /hiya/ |
| shear {v} (to remove the fleece from a sheep) | :: قص /qaṣṣa/ |
| she-ass {n} (female ass, female donkey, jenny) | :: أتان {f} /ʾatān/, حمارة {f} /ḥimāra/ |
| sheath {n} (scabbard) SEE: scabbard | :: |
| sheath {n} (condom) SEE: condom | :: |
| Sheba {prop} (biblical kingdom) | :: سبأ /sabaʾ/, شبا /šabā/ |
| Sheba {prop} (34th sura of the Qur'an) | :: سورة سبأ |
| shebop {v} (masturbate) SEE: masturbate | :: |
| she-cat {n} (female cat) | :: قطة {f} /qiṭṭa/ |
| shed {n} (temporary structure to shelter something) | :: سقيفة {f} /saqīfa/ |
| sheep {n} (animal) | :: خروف {m} /ḵarūf/ |
| sheepherder {n} (shepherd) SEE: shepherd | :: |
| sheer {adj} (pure) SEE: pure | :: |
| sheer {adj} (very thin or transparent) | :: شفاف {m} /šaffāf/ |
| sheet {n} (sheet of paper) | :: ورقة {f} /waraqa/, ورق {m} /waraq/ |
| sheet {n} (thin bed cloth) SEE: bedsheet | :: |
| Sheffield {prop} (city) | :: شيفيلد {m} /šifild/ |
| sheik {n} (leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe) | :: شيخ {m} /šayḵ/ |
| sheik {n} (Islamic religious clergy) | :: شيخ {m} /šayḵ/ |
| sheik {n} (Gulf countries: official title for members of the royal family) | :: شيخ {m} /šayḵ/ |
| sheikdom {n} | :: مشيخة {f} /mašyaḵa/ |
| shekel {n} (sheqel) SEE: sheqel | :: |
| shelf {n} (structure) | :: رف {m} /raff/ |
| shell {n} (hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of many invertebrates) | :: صدفة {f} /ṣadafa/ |
| shell {n} (hard covering of an egg) | :: قشر /qišr/, قشرة {f} /qišra/ |
| shell {n} (covering of a nut) | :: قشر /qišr/ |
| shell {n} (conjoined scutes that comprise the "shell" of a tortoise or turtle) | :: صدفة {f} /ṣadafa/, بيت {m} /bayt/ |
| shell {n} (casing of an artillery projectile) | :: ظرف {m} /ẓarf/ |
| shell {n} (psychological barrier to social interaction) | :: قوقعة {f} /qawqaʿa/ |
| shellfish {n} (aquatic food that has a shell) | :: محار {m} /maḥār/ |
| shell script {n} (file containing instructions for the shell) | :: سكربت شل {m} /skribt šel/ |
| shell shock {n} (psychiatric condition characterized by fatigue caused by battle) | :: إرتجاج دماغي {m} /ʾirtijāj dimāḡiyy/ |
| shelter {n} (a refuge or other protection) | :: ملاذ {m} /malāḏ/ |
| Shem {prop} (son of Noah) | :: سام /sām/ |
| Shen-yang {prop} (Shenyang) SEE: Shenyang | :: |
| Shenyang {prop} (a city of China) | :: شنيانغ {m} /šinyānḡ/, شينيانغ {m} /šinyānḡ/ |
| Shenzhen {prop} (a city in China) | :: شينتشين {m} /šintšīn/, شينجين {m} /šinjīn/ |
| shepherd {n} (a person who tends sheep) | :: راع {m} /rāʿin/ |
| shepherd {n} (someone who watches over or guides) | :: راع {m} /rāʿin/ |
| sheqel {n} (currency unit in Israel) | :: شيكل {m} /šekel/, شيكل {m} /šīkil/ |
| sherbet {n} (frozen fruit juice) | :: شربات {f} /šarbāt/ |
| sherbet {n} (sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals) | :: شربات {m} /šarbāt/ |
| Sheremetyevo {prop} (airport in Russia) | :: شيريميتييفو {m} /širimītyifū/ |
| sheriff {n} (all meanings) | :: شريف {m} /šarīf/ |
| Sherlock Holmes {prop} (fictional detective) | :: شرلوك هولمز {m} /šerluk hulms/ |
| sherry {n} (fortified wine) | :: شيري /širī/, خمرة {f} /ḵamra/ |
| she-tiger {n} (tigress) SEE: tigress | :: |
| she-wolf {n} (female wolf) | :: ذئبة {f} /ḏiʾba/ |
| Shi'a {n} (branch of Islam) | :: شيعة {f} /šīʿa/ |
| Shi'a {n} (follower of Shi'a Islam) | :: شيعي {m} /šīʿiyy/ |
| Shibuya {prop} (one of the special wards that form Tokyo) | :: شيبويا {f} /šībūyā/ |
| shield {n} (lavatory) SEE: toilet | :: |
| shield {n} (armor) | :: ترس {m} /turs/, درع {m} /dirʿ/ |
| shield {n} (anything that protects or defends) | :: وقايه {f} /wiqāyah/, وقاء {m} /wiqāʾ/ |
| shield {v} (to protect, to defend) | :: وقى /waqā/, حمى /ḥamā/ |
| shield {n} (toilet seat) SEE: toilet seat | :: |
| shift {n} (type of women's undergarment) SEE: slip | :: |
| Shiga {prop} (Shiga, Japan) | :: شيغا {f} /šīḡā/ |
| Shih-chia-chuang {prop} (Shijiazhuang) SEE: Shijiazhuang | :: |
| Shih Tzu {n} (small dog breed which originated in China) | :: تشيه تزو |
| shiitake {n} (Lentinula edodes, an edible mushroom) | :: شيتاكي {m} /šītākī/ |
| Shiite {n} (Shi'a) SEE: Shi'a | :: |
| Shiite {adj} (of or pertaining to the Shi'a branch of Islam) | :: شيعي {m} /šīʿiyy/ |
| Shiite {adj} (of or pertaining to the Shiites) | :: شيعي {m} /šīʿiyy/ |
| Shijiazhuang {prop} (a city of China) | :: شيجياتشوانج {m} /šijyatšwāng/, شيجياجوانغ {m} /šijyajwānḡ/ |
| Shikoku {prop} (Japanese island) | :: شيكوكو {m} /šikūkū/ |
| shilajit {n} (tar-like substance used in traditional medicine) | :: مومياء {m} /mūmiyāʾ/ |
| shilling {n} (currency) | :: شلن {m} /šillin/ |
| Shimane {prop} (Shimane, Japan) | :: شيمانه {m} /šimānih/ |
| Shimshon {prop} (given name) SEE: Samson | :: |
| shin {n} (front part of the leg below the knee) | :: قصبة {f} /qaṣaba/ |
| shin {n} (Semitic letter) | :: شين /šīn/ |
| shinbone {n} (inner bone of the hind limb below the knee) | :: قصبة {f} /qaṣaba/ |
| shine {v} (to emit light) | :: لمع /lamaʿa/ |
| shiner {n} (black eye) SEE: black eye | :: |
| shingles {n} (herpes zoster) | :: الهربس العصبي {m} /al-hirbis al-ʿaṣabiyy/ |
| shinkansen {n} (bullet train) SEE: bullet train | :: |
| Shinto {prop} (religion) | :: شنتو {m} /šintū/ |
| Shintoism {prop} (Shinto) SEE: Shinto | :: |
| shiny {adj} (reflecting light) | :: براق /barrāq/, لامع /lāmiʿ/ |
| shiny cowbird {n} (shiny cowbird) | :: شحرور البقر اللماع |
| ship {n} (large water vessel) | :: سفينة {f} /safīna/ |
| ship {v} (to send a parcel or container) | :: شحن /šaḥana/ |
| shipwreck {n} (A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy.) | :: حطام سفينة /ḥuṭām safīna/ |
| Shiraz {prop} (a city in southern Iran) | :: شيراز {m} /šīrāz/ |
| shirt {n} (article of clothing) | :: قميص {m} /qamīṣ/ |
| shisha {n} (arabic water-pipe) SEE: hookah | :: |
| shit {n} | :: خراء {m} /ḵarāʾ/, خراء {m} /ḵirāʾ/ |
| shit {v} | :: خرئ /ḵariʾa/ |
| shit happens {phrase} (expression of acceptance of misfortune) SEE: such is life | :: |
| shithole {n} (anus) SEE: asshole | :: |
| shithole {n} (unpleasant person) SEE: asshole | :: |
| shitter {n} (coarse slang for the anus) SEE: anus | :: |
| shitty {adj} (drunk) SEE: drunk | :: |
| shitty {adj} (high) SEE: high | :: |
| Shiva {prop} (deity) | :: شيڤا /šivā/ |
| Shizuoka {prop} (a prefecture in Japan) | :: شيزوكا {f} /šizūkā/ |
| Shizuoka {prop} (prefecture capital of Shizuoka) | :: شيزوكا {f} /šizūkā/ |
| Shlomo {prop} (given name) SEE: Solomon | :: |
| Shoah {prop} (the systematic mass murder of 6 million Jews) SEE: Holocaust | :: |
| shoal {n} (group of fish) SEE: school | :: |
| shock {n} (sudden, heavy impact) | :: صدمة {f} /ṣadma/ |
| shock {n} (something surprising) | :: صدمة {f} /ṣadma/ |
| shock {v} (to give an electric shock) | :: صعق /ṣaʿaqa/ |
| shock and awe {n} (doctrine based on the use of spectacular displays of force) | :: الصدمة والترويع |
| shocking {adj} (inspiring shock; startling) | :: صادم /ṣādim/ |
| shoe {n} (protective covering for the foot) | :: حذاء {m} /ḥiḏāʾ/, نعل {m} /naʿl/ |
| shoe {n} (piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse’s foot) SEE: horseshoe | :: |
| shoebill {n} (wading bird) | :: أبو مركوب {m} /'abu markub/ |
| shoehorn {n} (tool used to assist the foot) | :: قرن {m} /qarn/ |
| shoelace {n} (for fastening a shoe, see also: lace) | :: شراك {m} /širāk/, رباط الحذاء {m} /ribāṭ al-ḥiḏāʾ/ |
| shoemaking {n} (shoemaking) | :: سكافة {f} /sikāfa/ |
| shoestring {n} (the string or lace used to secure the shoe to the foot; a shoelace) SEE: shoelace | :: |
| shofar {n} (ram’s-horn trumpet) | :: شبور /šabbūr/ |
| shogun {n} (supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan) | :: شوغون {m} /šogun/, شوغون {m} /šūḡūn/ |
| shoot {v} (to fire a shot) | :: صوب /ṣawwaba/, أطلق النار /ʾaṭlaqa n-nār/ |
| shoot {v} (to fire multiple shots) | :: صوب /ṣawwaba/ |
| shoot {v} (to hit with a shot) | :: صوب /ṣawwaba/ |
| shooting {n} (the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon) | :: رماية {f} /rimāyah/ |
| shooting star {n} (meteor) | :: شهاب {m} /šihāb/ |
| shoot one's mouth off {v} (make reckless or exaggerated statements) | :: تبادل لإطلاق النار الفم |
| shop {n} (establishment that sells goods) | :: دكان {m} /dukkān/, متجر {m} /matjar/, محل {m} /maḥall/, بقالة {f} /biqāla/, حانوت {m} /ḥānūt/ |
| shop {v} (to visit shops) | :: تسوق /tasawwaqa/, تبضع /tabaḍḍaʿa/ |
| shoplifting {n} (action of the verb to shoplift) | :: سرقة السلع من المتاجر /saraqatu s-silaʿa mina l-matājir/ |
| shoppe {n} (shop) SEE: shop | :: |
| shopper {n} (a person who shops) | :: متسوق {m} /mutasawwiq/, متسوقة {f} /mutasawwiqa/ |
| shopping {n} (activity of buying) | :: تسوق {m} /tasawwuq/ |
| shopping center {n} (shopping centre) SEE: shopping centre | :: |
| shopping centre {n} (large retail outlet) | :: مركز تسوق {m} /markaz tasawwiq/, مركز تجاري {m} /markaz tijāriyy/, مول {m} /mūl/ |
| shopping mall {n} (shopping centre) SEE: shopping centre | :: |
| shop window {n} (large window at the front of a shop) | :: شباك {m} /šubbāk/, فاترينة {f} /fatrīna/, واجهة {f} /wājiha/ |
| shore {n} (land adjoining a large body of water) | :: شاطئ {m} /šāṭiʾ/, ساحل {m} /sāḥil/ |
| short {adj} (having a small distance between ends or edges) | :: قصير /qaṣīr/ |
| short {adj} (having little duration) | :: قصير /qaṣīr/ |
| shorten {v} (to make shorter) | :: قصر /qaṣṣara/ |
| shortness {n} (The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief) | :: قصر {m} /qiṣar/ |
| short of {phrase} (except) SEE: except | :: |
| shorts {n} (plural of short) SEE: short | :: |
| shorts {n} (pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees) | :: شورت {p} /šūrt/ |
| short-sightedness {n} (disorder of the vision) SEE: nearsightedness | :: |
| short story {n} (work of fiction) | :: قصة قصيرة {f} /qiṣṣa qaṣīra/, أقصوصة {f} /ʾuqṣūṣa/ |
| short-tailed weasel {n} (Mustela erminea) SEE: ermine | :: |
| shot {n} (result of launching a projectile) | :: طلقة {f} /ṭalqa/ |
| shot {n} (launching of a ball or similar object toward a goal) | :: رمية {f} /ramya/ |
| shoulder {n} (joint between arm and torso) | :: كتف {m} /kataf/, منكب {m} /mankib/ |
| shoulder {n} | :: كتف {f} /katif/ |
| shoulder blade {n} (bone) | :: لوح الكتف {m} /lawḥ al-katif/, عظم كتفي {m} /ʿaẓm katifiyy/ |
| shoulder bone {n} (shoulder blade) SEE: shoulder blade | :: |
| shout {n} (a loud burst of voice) | :: صيح {m}, صياح {f} /ṣiyāḥ/ |
| shout {v} (to utter a sudden and loud outcry) | :: صرخ /ṣaraḵa/ (present tense: يصرخ yaṣruxu), صاح /ṣāḥa/ |
| shovel {n} (spade) SEE: spade | :: |
| shovel {n} (tool for moving portions of material) | :: مجرفة {f} /mijrafa/, مجراف {m} /mijrāf/ |
| show {v} (to display) | :: عرض /ʿaraḍa/, قدم /qaddama/, ظهر /ẓahara/ |
| show {v} (to indicate (a fact) to be true) | :: ثبت /ṯabata/, وضح /waḍaḥa/ |
| show {n} (entertainment) | :: عرض {m} /ʿarḍ/, استعراض {m} /istiʿrāḍ/ |
| show {n} (exhibition) | :: معرض {m} /maʿriḍ/ |
| show {n} (demonstration) | :: إظهار /ʾiẓhār/, عرض /ʿarḍ/ |
| show {n} (broadcast program(me)) | :: برنامج {m} /barnāmaj/ |
| show {v} (to bestow; confer) SEE: bestow | :: |
| showcase {n} (a setting for displaying something favorably) | :: واجهة {f} /wājiha/, فاترينة {f} /fatrīna/ |
| shower {n} (brief fall of rain) | :: شتوة {f} /šatwa/, مطرة {f} /maṭra/ |
| shower {n} (device for bathing) | :: دش {m} /duš/, دوش /dūš/ |
| shower {v} (to bathe using a shower) | :: استحم /istaḥamma/ |
| shower {n} (baby shower) SEE: baby shower | :: |
| show off {v} (to exhibit, to demonstrate something for the purpose of bragging) | :: تفاخر /tafāḵar/, تباهى /tabāhā/ |
| show of force {n} | :: استعراض للقوة |
| shrew {n} (mouselike animal) | :: زبابة {f} /zabāba/ |
| shrewd {adj} (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters) | :: حاذق /ḥāḏiq/ |
| shrewd {adj} (artful, tricky or cunning) | :: ناصح /nāṣiḥ/, نبيه /nabīh/ |
| shriek {n} (a sharp, shrill outcry or scream) | :: زعق /zaʿaqa/ |
| shrimp {n} (decapod crustacean) | :: روبيان {m} /rūbiyān/, جمبري {m} /jambariyy/, إربيان /ʾirbiyān/ |
| shrine {n} (a holy place dedicated to a specific figure of respect) | :: ضريح {m} /ḍarīḥ/ |
| shrink {v} (intransitive: to contract, to become smaller) | :: تقلص /taqallaṣa/, أحجم /ʾaḥjama/ |
| shrink {v} (transitive: to cause something to shrink) | :: قلص /qallaṣa/ |
| shrithe {v} (to go about, roam) SEE: roam | :: |
| shrive {v} (confess) SEE: confess | :: |
| shroom {n} (mushroom) SEE: mushroom | :: |
| shroud {n} (dress for the dead) | :: كفن {m} /kafan/ |
| Shrove Tuesday {n} (day before the beginning of Lent) | :: الثلاثاء البدين, ثلاثاء المرافع, يوم البان كيك هي |
| shrub {n} (woody plant) | :: شجيرة {f} /šujayra/ |
| shrub {n} (drink) | :: شراب {m} /šarāb/ |
| shrug {v} (to raise the shoulders to express uncertainty, lack of concern, etc.) | :: هز كتفين /hazza katifayn/ |
| Shubra el-Kheima {prop} (city in Egypt) | :: شبرا الخيمة {f} /šubrā l-ḵayma/ |
| shunt {v} (to divert to a less important place, position, or state) | :: حول /ḥawwala/ |
| shuriken {n} (a ninja weapon) | :: شوريكن {m} /šūrīkin/, شوريكين {m} /šūrīkīn/ |
| shut {v} ((transitive) to close) | :: أغلق /ʾaḡlaqa/ |
| shut {v} ((intransitive) to close, to stop being open) | :: انغلق /inḡalaqa/ |
| shut one's trap {v} (shut up) SEE: shut up | :: |
| shuttle {n} (part of a loom) | :: مكوك {m} /makkūk/ |
| shuttle {n} (transport service) | :: مكوك {m} /makūk/ |
| shuttlecock {n} (badminton ball) | :: ريشة {f} /rīša/ |
| shut up {v} (imperative: "Shut up!", see also: hold one's tongue) | :: صه /ṣah/, اسكت /uskut/, إخرس /ʾiḵras/, سكر تمك /sakkir tummak/ |
| shvitz {n} (sweat) SEE: sweat | :: |
| shy {adj} (easily frightened) | :: خجول /ḵajūl/, خجل /ḵajil/ |
| shy {adj} (reserved) | :: خجول /ḵajūl/ |
| shy {adj} (embarrassed) | :: مورط /muwarraṭ/ |
| si {n} (seventh note of a major scale) | :: سي {m} /sī/ |
| Siam {prop} (the former name of Thailand) | :: سيام {m} /siyām/ |
| Siamese cat {n} (mammal) | :: قط سيامي {m} /qiṭṭ siyāmiyy/ |
| sib {n} (sibling) SEE: sibling | :: |
| sib {n} (kindred) SEE: kin | :: |
| Siberia {prop} (region of Russia) | :: سيبيريا {f} /sībīriyā/ |
| Siberian Husky {n} (Siberian Husky dog) | :: هسكي سيبيري {m} /haskī sībīriyy/ |
| sibling {n} (person who shares same parents) | :: شقيق {m} /šaqīq/, شقيقة {f} /šaqīqa/ |
| sic {adv} (thus, thus written) | :: كذا /kaḏā/ |
| Sichuan {prop} (a province in China) | :: سيشوان {m} /sišwān/, سيتشوان {m} /sitšwān/ |
| Sichuan tit {n} (Poecile weigoldicus) | :: قرقف سيتشوان |
| Sicilian {adj} (relating to Sicily or its inhabitants) | :: صقلي /ṣiqilliyy/ |
| Sicilian {n} (person) | :: صقلية {f} /ṣiqilliya/, صقلي {m} /ṣiqilliyy/ |
| Sicilian {n} (chess opening) SEE: Sicilian Defence | :: |
| Sicilian Defence {prop} (chess opening) | :: دفاع صقلي {m} /difāʿ ṣiqiliyy/ |
| Sicily {prop} (island) | :: صقلية {f} /ṣiqilliyya/ |
| sick {adj} (ill) SEE: ill | :: |
| sickle {n} (agricultural implement) | :: منجل {m} /minjal/ |
| sickness {n} (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) | :: مرض {m} /maraḍ/ |
| side {n} (bounding straight edge of an object) | :: جانب {m} /jānib/ |
| side {n} (left or right half) | :: جانب /jānib/ |
| side {n} (surface of a sheet of paper) | :: صفحة {f} /ṣafḥa/ |
| side {n} (television channel) SEE: channel | :: |
| sideboard {n} (sideburns) SEE: sideburns | :: |
| sideburn {n} (sideburns) SEE: sideburns | :: |
| sideburns {n} (facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin) | :: سوالف {m-p} /sawālif/, سالف الشعر {m} /sālif aš-šaʿr/ |
| side by side {adv} | :: جنبا إلى جنب /janban ʾilā janb/ |
| sidewalk {n} (paved footpath) | :: رصيف {m} /raṣīf/, طوار {m} /ṭawār/, طوار {m} /ṭuwār/ |
| Sidon {prop} (city state of Phoenicia) | :: صيدا /ṣaydā/ |
| siege {n} (lavatory) SEE: toilet | :: |
| siege {n} (military blockade of settlement) | :: حصار {m} /ḥiṣār/ |
| siege {v} (besiege) SEE: besiege | :: |
| Sieg Heil {phrase} (Nazi greeting) | :: زيج هايل /zīg hāyl/ |
| Siena {prop} (province) | :: سيينا {f} /siyēnā/ |
| Siena {prop} (city) | :: سيينا {f} /siyēnā/ |
| sienna {n} (clay) | :: طين {m} |
| Sierra Leone {prop} (Republic of Sierra Leone) | :: سيراليون {f} /sīrāliyūn/ |
| sieve {n} (device to separate larger objects from smaller ones or from liquids) | :: غربال {m} /ḡirbāl/ , مصفاة /miṣfāh/ |
| sigh {v} (to inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it) | :: تنهد /tanahhada/ |
| sight {n} (something seen) | :: مشهد {m} /mašhad/ |
| sight {n} (something worth seeing) | :: منظر يستحق المشاهدة {m} /manẓar yastaḥiqqa l-mušāhada/ |
| sight {n} (eyesight) SEE: eyesight | :: |
| sighted {adj} (Not blind) SEE: seeing | :: |
| sightseeing {n} (tourism) | :: زيارة معالم المدينة {f} /ziyārat maʿālim al-madīna/, سياحة {f} /siyāḥa/ |
| sigma {n} (letter of the Greek alphabet) | :: سيغما {f} /sīḡmā/ |
| sign {n} (visible indication) | :: إشارة {f} /ʾišāra/, علامة {f} /ʿalāma/ |
| sign {n} (flat object bearing a message) | :: لافتة {m} /lāfita/ |
| sign {v} (to make (a document) official by writing one's signature) | :: وقع /waqqaʿa/, أمضى /ʾamḍā/ |
| sign {v} (to write one's signature on a document) | :: وقع /waqqaʿa/ |
| signal {n} (sign made to give notice) | :: إشارة {f} /ʾišāra/ |
| signature {n} (person’s autograph name) | :: توقيع {m} /tawqīʿ/, إمضاء {m} /ʾimḍāʾ/ |
| signature {n} (act of signing) | :: توقيع /tawqīʿ/ |
| signboard {n} (a board carrying a sign) | :: لافتة {f} /lāfita/ |
| significance {n} (extent to which something matters) | :: معنى /maʿnā/ |
| significant {adj} (having noticeable effect) | :: هام /hāmm/ |
| Siirt {prop} (city) | :: سعرد |
| Sikh {n} (an adherent of Sikhism) | :: سيخ {m} /sīḵ/ |
| Sikhism {prop} (religion) | :: سيخية {f} /sīḵiyya/ |
| Sikkim {prop} (state in eastern India which has Gangtok as its capital) | :: سيكيم {m} /sikīm/ |
| silence {n} (lack of any sound) | :: صمت {m} /ṣamt/, سكوت {m} /sukūt/ |
| silence {v} (to make something silent) | :: صمت /ṣammata/ |
| silence {interj} (be silent) | :: صمتا! /ṣamtan!/, صه! /ṣahin!/ |
| silence is golden {proverb} (proverb) | :: السكوت من ذهب /as-sukūtu min ḏahabin/ |
| silent {adj} (free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet) | :: صامت /ṣāmit/ |
| silent {adj} (to refrain from speaking) SEE: be silent | :: |
| silent fart {n} | :: فسو /fasw/ |
| silent film {n} (film without sound) | :: سينما صامتة {f} /sīnimā ṣāmita/ |
| Silesia {prop} (region) | :: سيليزيا {f} /silīzyā/ |
| Siliana {prop} (Tunisian town) | :: سليانة |
| silicon {n} (non-metallic element) | :: سليكون {m} /silikōn/ |
| Silicon Valley {prop} (nickname for region in San Francisco) | :: وادي السيلكون {m} /wādī s-silikūn/ |
| silk {n} (fiber) | :: حرير {m} /ḥarīr/ |
| silk {n} (fabric) | :: حرير {m} /ḥarīr/ |
| Silk Road {prop} (routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa) | :: طريق الحرير {m} /ṭarīq al-ḥarīr/ |
| silk-screen printing {n} (screen printing) SEE: screen printing | :: |
| silkworm {n} (caterpillar) | :: دودة القز {f} /dūdat al-qazz/ |
| silly {adj} (foolish, showing a lack of good sense and wisdom) | :: سخيف /saḵīf/ |
| silo {n} (vertical building for storing grain) | :: صومعة {f} /ṣawmaʿa/ |
| silt {n} (fine earth deposited by water) | :: غرين {m} /ḡarīn/ |
| Silvan {prop} (city in the Diyarbakır Province of Turkey) | :: ميافارقين /Mayyafariqin/ |
| silver {n} (metal) | :: فضة {f} /fiḍḍa/ |
| silver {adj} (made from silver) | :: فضي /fiḍḍiyy/, لجين /lujayn/ |
| silver {adj} (having a color/colour like silver) | :: فضي /fiḍḍiyy/, لجين /lujayn/ |
| silver age {n} (historical period) | :: عصر فضي {m} /ʿaṣr fiḍḍiyy/ |
| silverberry {n} (plant) SEE: oleaster | :: |
| silver bullet {n} (bullet made of silver) | :: رصاصة الفضة {f} /raṣāṣat al-fuḍḍa/ |
| silvern {adj} (made from silver) SEE: silver | :: |
| silvery {adj} (resembling silver) | :: لجين /lujayn/ |
| SIM card {n} (small, removable card which stores mobile phone data) | :: بطاقة SIM {f} /biṭāqa(t) SIM/ |
| Simferopol {prop} (city) | :: سمفروبل {m} /simfirūbul/ |
| similar {adj} (having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable) | :: مماثل /mumāṯil/ |
| similarity {n} (closeness of appearance) | :: تشابه {m} /tašābuh/, شبه {m} /šabah/ |
| similarness {n} (similarity) SEE: similarity | :: |
| simile {n} (figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another) | :: تشبيه {m} /tašbīh/ |
| simit {n} (ring-shaped bread roll) | :: سميط {m} /samīṭ/ |
| Simon {prop} (biblical characters) | :: سمعان {m} /simʿān/, شمعون {m} /šamʿūn/ |
| Simon {prop} (male given name) | :: سمعان {m} /simʿān/, شمعون {m} /šamʿūn/ |
| simoom {n} (hot, dry wind) | :: سموم {m} /samūm/ |
| simple {adj} (uncomplicated) | :: بسيط /basīṭ/, سهل /sahl/ |
| simple fraction {n} (type of fraction) SEE: common fraction | :: |
| simple machine {n} (device) | :: آلة بسيطة /ʾāla(t) basīṭa/ |
| simpleton {n} (simple-minded naive person lacking common sense) | :: مغفل {m} /muḡaffal/, ساذج {m} /sāḏaj/ |
| simplicity {n} (quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths) | :: بساطة {f} /basāṭa/ |
| Simplified Chinese {prop} (Chinese written using simplified characters) | :: حروف صينية مبسطة {m-p} /ḥurūf ṣīniyya mubassaṭa/ |
| Simpson {prop} (surname) | :: سيمبسون {m} {f} /simbsun/ |
| simultaneous {adj} (occurring at the same time) | :: متزامن /mutazāmin/ |
| sin {n} (violation of religious law) | :: خطيئة {f} /ḵaṭīʾa/, إثم {m} /ʾiṯm/, ذنب {m} /ḏanb/, معصية {f} /maʿṣiya/ |
| sin {n} | :: إثم /ʾiṯm/ |
| sin {v} (to commit a sin) | :: أثم /ʾaṯama/, أذنب /ʾaḏnaba/ |
| Sinai {prop} (peninsula) | :: سيناء {f} /sīnāʾ/ |
| Sinai {prop} (mountain) | :: طور سيناء {m} /ṭūr sīnāʾ/, جبل موسى /jabal mūsā/ |
| Sinaloa {prop} (state of Mexico) | :: سينالوا {n} /sīnāluwā/ |
| Sinbad {prop} (fictional sailor) | :: سندباد {m} /sindibād/ |
| since {prep} (from (time)) | :: منذ /munḏu/ |
| since {conj} (from the time that) | :: منذ /munḏu/ |
| since {conj} (because) | :: لأن /liʾanna/ |
| sincere {adj} (earnest) | :: مخلص /muḵliṣ/ |
| Sindh {prop} (province of Pakistan) | :: السند {f} /as-sind/ |
| Sindhi {adj} (pertaining to Sindh) | :: سندي /sindiyy/, سندية /sindiyya/ |
| Sindhi {prop} (language) | :: السندية {f} /as-sindiyya/ |
| sine {n} (trigonometric function) | :: جيب {m} /jayb/ |
| sine qua non {n} (prerequisite) | :: شرط لازم {m} /šarṭ lāzim/ |
| sinew {n} (cord or tendon of the body) SEE: tendon | :: |
| sinful {adj} (evil) SEE: evil | :: |
| sing {v} (to produce harmonious sounds with one’s voice) | :: غنى /ḡannā/ |
| Singapore {prop} (Republic of Singapore) | :: سنغافورة {f} /sinḡāfūra/ |
| Singaporean {adj} (of, from, or pertaining to Singapore) | :: سنغافوري /sinḡāfūriyy/ |
| Singaporean {n} (a person from Singapore) | :: سنغافوري {m} /sinḡāfūriyy/, سنغافورية {f} /sinḡāfūriyya/ |
| Singapore dollar {n} (official currency of Singapore) | :: دولار سنغافوري {m} /dōlār sinḡāfūriyy/ |
| singer {n} (person who sings) | :: مطرب {m} /muṭrib/, مغن {m} /muḡannin/ , المغني {m} /al-muḡannī/ |
| Singh {prop} (surname) | :: سينغ /sīnḡ/ |
| singing {n} (the act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing) | :: غناء {m} /ḡināʾ/ |
| single {adj} (not accompanied by anything else) | :: أحادي {m} /ʾaḥādiyy/ |
| single {adj} (not divided in parts) | :: واحد {m} /wāḥid/ |
| single {adj} (not married nor dating) | :: أعزب /ʾaʿzab/, غير متزوج /ḡayr mutazawwij/ |
| single {n} (one who is not married) | :: عزب {m} /ʿazab/ |
| single room {n} (a hotel room with one single bed) | :: غرفة لشخص واحد {f} /ḡurfa li-šaḵṣ wāḥid/ |
| singular {adj} (grammar: referring to only one thing) | :: مفرد {m} /mufrad/ |
| singular {n} (grammar: form of a word that refers to only one thing) | :: مفرد {m} /mufrad/, صيغة المفرد {f} /ṣīḡat al-mufrad/ |
| Sinhala {n} (language) SEE: Sinhalese | :: |
| Sinhalese {n} (the language) | :: سنهالي {m} /sinhāliyy/, لغة سنهالية {f} /luḡa sinhāliyya/ |
| sinister {adj} (evil) | :: شرير {m} /šarīr/ |
| sinistromanual {adj} (left-handed) SEE: left-handed | :: |
| sink {v} (descend into liquid, etc) | :: غطس /ḡaṭasa/ |
| sink {n} (basin) | :: مجلى {f} /majlā/, مغسلة {f} /maḡsala/ |
| sink {n} (sinkhole) SEE: sinkhole | :: |
| sinkhole {n} (depressed area in which water collects) | :: بالوعة {f} /bālūʿa/, بلاعة {f} /ballāʿa/ |
| Sinkiang {prop} (Xinjiang) SEE: Xinjiang | :: |
| sinner {n} (person who has sinned) | :: خاطئ {m} /ḵāṭiʾ/ |
| sinus {n} (pouch or cavity in any organ or tissue) | :: جيب الأنف {m} /jayb al-ʾunf/ |
| Sion {prop} (capital of Valais, a canton in Switzerland) | :: سيون |
| sip {n} (A small mouthful of drink) | :: مصة /maṣṣa/, رشفة /rašfa/ |
| sip {v} (to drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time) | :: مز /mazz/, كرع /karaʿ/, رشف /rašafa/, حسا /ḥasā/, تمصص, تحسى, امتص /imtaṣṣ/, ارتشف /irtašafa/, احتسى /iḥtasā/ |
| sipahsalar {n} (a title) | :: إسفهسلار /ʾisfahsalār/, إصبهسلار /ʾiṣbahsalār/ |
| sir {n} (address to any male, especially if his name or proper address is unknown) | :: أستاذ {m} /ʾustāḏ/, سيد {m} /sayyid/, سيدي {m} /sayyidī/, حضرتك {m} /ḥaḍratak/, أفندي {m} /ʾafandī/, باشا {m} /bāšā/ |
| Sir {n} (title) | :: سير {m} /ser/ |
| siren {n} (device for making a sound alarm) | :: صفارة {f} /ṣaffāra/ |
| Sirius {prop} | :: الشعرى {f} /aš-šiʿrā/ |
| sirtaki {n} (modern Greek folk dance) | :: سيرتاكي {m} /sīrtākī/ |
| sister {n} (woman or girl having the same parents) | :: أخت {f} /ʾuḵt/, شقيقة {f} /šaqīqa/ |
| sister-in-law {n} (wife's sister) | :: أخت زوجة {f} /ʾuḵt zawja/, سلفة {f} /silfa/ |
| sister-in-law {n} (husband's sister) | :: أخت زوج {f} /ʾuḵt zawj/ |
| sister-wife {n} (co-wife) | :: ضرة {f} /ḍurra/ |
| Sisyphus {prop} (figure) | :: سيزيف {m} /sizif/ |
| sit {v} (of a person, be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs are supported) | :: جلس /jalasa/ |
| sitcom {n} (situation comedy, see also: situation comedy) | :: كوميديا الموقف {f} /kōmīdiyā l-mawqif/ |
| sit down {v} (to assume a sitting position from a standing position) | :: جلس /jalasa/, قعد /qaʿada/ |
| site {n} (place where anything is fixed; situation; local position) | :: موضع {m} /mawḍiʿ/ |
| site {n} (a website) | :: موقع {m} /mawqiʿ/ |
| site map {n} (webpage that lists the contents of a website) | :: خريطة الموقع {f} |
| sit-in {n} (type of protest) | :: اعتصام {m} /iʿtiṣām/ |
| sitting room {n} (living room) SEE: living room | :: |
| situated {adj} (located in a specific place) | :: واقع /wāqiʿ/ |
| situation {n} (position vis-à-vis surroundings) | :: حالة {f} /ḥāla/ |
| situation {n} (location) | :: موقع {m} /mawqiʿ/ |
| situation {n} (one's status with regard to circumstances) | :: حالة {f} /ḥāla/ |
| situation {n} (state of affairs) | :: حالة {f} /ḥāla/ |
| situational {adj} (of or pertaining to a particular situation) | :: ظرفي |
| six {num} (cardinal number) | :: ستة /sitta/ |
| six hundred {num} (cardinal number 600) | :: ستمئة /sittumiʾa/, ستما۟ئة /sittumiʾa/ |
| six o'clock {n} (the start of the seventh hour) | :: الساعة السادسة {f} /as-sāʿa s-sādisa/ |
| sixteen {num} (cardinal number 16) | :: ستة عشر /sittata ʿašara/ |
| sixth {adj} (ordinal form of the number six, see also: 6th) | :: سادس {m} /sādis/, سادسة {f} /sādisa/ |
| sixth {n} (one of six equal parts of a whole) | :: سدس {m} /suds/ |
| six thousand {num} (6000) | :: ستة آلاف /sitta(t) ʾālāf/ |
| sixty {num} (cardinal number) | :: ستين /sittīna/, ستون /sittūna/ |
| sixty-eight {num} (cardinal number) | :: ثمانية وستون /ṯamāniya wa-sittūn/ |
| sixty-five {num} (cardinal number) | :: خمسة وستون /ḵamsa wa-sittūn/ |
| sixty-four {num} (cardinal number) | :: أربعة وستون /ʾarbaʿa wa-sittūn/ |
| sixty-nine {n} (cardinal number) | :: تسعة وستون /tisʿa(t) wasittūn/ |
| sixty-nine {n} | :: تسعة وستون /tisʿa wa-sittūn/ |
| sixty-one {num} (cardinal number) | :: واحد وستون /wāḥid wa-sittūn/ |
| sixty-seven {num} (cardinal number) | :: سبعة وستون /sabʿa wa-sittūn/ |
| sixty-six {num} (cardinal number) | :: ستة وستون /sitta wa-sittūn/ |
| sixty-three {num} (cardinal number) | :: ثلاثة وستون /ṯalāṯa wa-sittūn/ |
| sixty-two {num} (cardinal number) | :: اثنان وستون /iṯnān wa-sittūn/ |
| size {n} (dimensions or magnitude of a thing) | :: مقاس {m} /maqās/, حجم {m} /ḥajm/ |
| skandha {n} (any of the five aspects constituting the sentient being in Buddhism) | :: سكاندا /skāndā/ |
| skate {n} (ice skate or roller skate) | :: تزلج {m} /tazalluj/ |
| skate {n} (fish of family Rajidae) | :: شفنين {m} /šifnīn/ |
| skateboard {n} (platform on wheels) | :: لوح التزلج /lawḥ at-tazalluj/ |
| skating {n} (action or sport) | :: تزلج {m} /tazalluj/ |
| skeeter {n} (mosquito) SEE: mosquito | :: |
| skeleton {n} (system that provides support to an organism) | :: هيكل عظمي {m} /haykal ʿaẓmiyy/, هيكل {m} /haykal/ |
| skeptical {adj} (related to skepticism) | :: شكوكي /šukūkiyy/ |
| sketch {n} (lookout) SEE: lookout | :: |
| ski {n} (one of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow) | :: تزلج {m} /tazalluj/ |
| skiing {n} (sport or activity) | :: تزحلق {m} /tazaḥluq/ |
| skilful {adj} (possessing skill, skilled) SEE: skillful | :: |
| skill {n} (capacity to do something well) | :: مهارة {f} /mahāra/ |
| skillful {adj} (possessing skill, skilled) | :: ماهر /māhir/, حاذق /ḥāḏiq/, بارع /bāriʿ/ |
| skim {v} (ricochet) | :: يرت /yarta/ |
| skimble-skamble {n} (gibberish, mumbo-jumbo, nonsense) SEE: nonsense | :: |
| skimble-skamble {adj} (confused, chaotic, disorderly) SEE: chaotic | :: |
| skin {n} (outer protective of the body of a person or animal) | :: جلد {m} /jild/, بشرة {f} /bašara/ |
| skin cancer {n} (malignant growth on the skin) | :: سرطان الجلد {m} /saraṭān al-jild/ |
| skinhead {n} (someone with a shaved head) | :: أصلع حليق {m} /ʾaṣlaʿ ḥalīq/ |
| skinhead {n} (member of skinhead subculture) | :: سكينهيد {m} /skinhid/ |
| skink {n} (lizard) | :: سقنقور /saqanqūr/ |
| skinny {adj} (thin) | :: نحيف /naḥīf/ |
| skip {v} (to jump rope) SEE: jump rope | :: |
| skipping rope {n} (rope for play or exercise) | :: نط الحبل {m} /naṭ al-ḥabl/ |
| skip rope {n} (rope used) SEE: skipping rope | :: |
| skip rope {v} (to jump over a rope) SEE: jump rope | :: |
| skirt {n} (clothing) | :: تنورة {f} /tannūra/, جوب {m} /jūb/, خراطة {f} /ḵarrāṭa/, وزرة {f} /wazara/, جونلة {f} /jūnilla/ |
| skirt {n} | :: التنورة {f} |
| Skopje {prop} (capital of North Macedonia) | :: سكوبيه {m} /skubīh/, سكوبيا {f} /skūbiyyā/ |
| Skopje {prop} (North Macedonia) SEE: North Macedonia | :: |
| skull {n} (bones of the head: cranium and mandible) | :: جمجمة {f} /jumjuma/ |
| skullcap {n} (cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck) | :: كبة {f} /kibba/ |
| skunk {n} (animal) | :: ظربان {m} /ẓaribān/ |
| skunk {n} (skunkweed) SEE: marijuana | :: |
| sky {n} (atmosphere above a point) | :: سماء {f} /samāʾ/ |
| sky {n} (specific view, condition) | :: سماء {m} {f} /samāʾ/, سماوات {p} /samāwāt/ |
| sky {n} (heaven) | :: جنة {f} /janna/ |
| skyclad {adj} (nude) SEE: nude | :: |
| skylark {n} (small brown passerine bird) | :: قبرة {f} /qubbara/ |
| skyline {n} (horizon) SEE: horizon | :: |
| skyline {n} (silhouette against city or buildings) | :: أفق {m} /ʾufuq/ |
| skype {v} (make a Skype telephone call) | :: سكايب /skāyaba/ |
| skyrocket {n} (pocket) SEE: pocket | :: |
| skyscraper {n} (tall building) | :: ناطحة سحاب {f} /nāṭiḥat saḥāb/ |
| slab {n} (paving stone) | :: بلاط {m} /balāṭ/ |
| slabstone {n} (flagstone) SEE: flagstone | :: |
| slacks {n} (Semi-formal trousers not part of a suit) | :: بنطال {m} /binṭāl/, بنطلون {m} /banṭalūn/, بنطلونات {m-p} /banṭalūnāt/, سروال {m} /sirwāl/, سراويل {m-p} /sarāwīlu/ |
| slam dunk {n} (impressively forceful dunk) | :: رمية ساحقة {f} /ramya(t) sāḥiqa/, سلام دانك /slām dānk/ |
| slang {n} (jargon) SEE: jargon | :: |
| slang {n} (unconventional language ) | :: عامية {f} /ʿāmmiyya/ , دارجة {f} /dārija/ |
| slant {n} (typography: slash) SEE: slash | :: |
| slap {n} (A blow dealt with the open hand) | :: صفعة /ṣafʿa/, لطمة /laṭma/ |
| slap {v} (to give a slap) | :: صفع /ṣafaʿa/, لطم /laṭama/ |
| slash {n} (typography: / symbol) | :: خط مائل {m} /ḵaṭṭ māʾil/ |
| slash and burn {n} (technique) | :: القطع والحرق |
| slat {n} | :: سديبة |
| slate {n} (rock) | :: أردواز {m} /ʾardwāz/ |
| slattern {n} (slut) SEE: slut | :: |
| slaughter {n} (killing of animals (also kosher and halal rituals)) | :: ذبح {m} /ḏabḥ/ |
| slaughter {n} (killing of many people) | :: مذبحة {f} /maḏbaḥa/, تقتيل {m} /taqtīl/ |
| slaughter {v} (to butcher animals, generally for food (also kosher and halal rituals)) | :: ذبح /ḏabaḥa/ |
| slaughterhouse {n} (abattoir) SEE: abattoir | :: |
| Slav {n} (a member of a group of peoples in Eastern Europe speaking a Slavic language) | :: سلاف {m} /salāf/, صقالبة {f} /ṣaqāliba/ |
| slave {n} (person owned by another) | :: عبد {m} /ʿabd/ |
| slave {n} | :: رقيق /raqīq/ |
| slave-girl {n} (female slave) | :: أمة {f} /ʾama/ |
| slavery {n} (institution or practice of owning human beings) | :: عبودية {f} /ʿubūdiyya/ |
| Slavic {adj} (of the Slavs, their culture or languages) | :: سلافي /slāfiyy/ |
| Slavonic {adj} (Slavic) SEE: Slavic | :: |
| slay {v} (to kill, murder) | :: قتل /qatala/, أزهق روحه /ʾazhaqa rūḥahu/, ذبح /ḏabaḥa/ |
| sleazy {adj} (Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate) | :: مهلهل |
| sled {n} (sledge) SEE: sledge | :: |
| sledge {n} (sleigh or sled) | :: مزلقة {f} /mazlaqa/, زحافة {f} /zaḥḥāfa/ |
| sleep {v} (to rest in state of reduced consciousness) | :: نام /nāma/ |
| sleep {n} (state of reduced consciousness) | :: نوم {m} /nawm/, سنة {f} /sina/ |
| sleep {n} (informal: act or instance of sleeping) | :: نومة {f} /nawma/ |
| sleep {n} (substance found in the corner of the eyes (gound), sometimes as a figurative objectification of sleep, see also: ) | :: غمص /ḡamaṣ/ , رمص /ramaṣ/ |
| sleepiness {n} (property of being sleepy) | :: نعاس {m} /nuʿās/ |
| sleeping {adj} (asleep) SEE: asleep | :: |
| sleeping bag {n} (padded or insulated bag) | :: حقيبة النوم {f} /ḥaqībatu n-nawm/ |
| Sleeping Beauty {prop} (fairy tale) | :: الجميلة النائمة {f} /al-jamīla an-nāʾima/ |
| sleep paralysis {n} (inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon awakening) | :: جاثوم {m} /jāṯūm/ |
| sleepy {adj} (feeling the need for sleep) | :: نعسان /naʿsān/, ناعس /nāʿis/ |
| sleeve {n} (part of a garment that covers the arm) | :: كم {m} /kumm/ |
| sleigh {adj} (sly) SEE: sly | :: |
| sleigh {n} (vehicle on runners) SEE: sledge | :: |
| slender {adj} (thin) | :: نحيف /naḥīf/, أهيف /ʾahyaf/, نحيل /naḥīl/ |
| sleuth {n} (detective) | :: جاسوس {m} /jāsūs/, جاسوسة {f} /jāsūsa/ |
| slice {n} (thin, broad piece cut off) | :: شريحة {f} |
| slice {v} (to cut into slices) | :: قطع /qaṭṭaʿa/ |
| slide {v} (to move in continuous contact with a surface) | :: انزلق /inzalaqa/ |
| slide fastener {n} (zip fastener) SEE: zip fastener | :: |
| slide rule {n} (analog calculator) | :: مسطرة حاسبة {f} /misṭara ḥāsiba/ |
| slight {adj} (small in amount, insignificant) | :: طفيف /ṭafīf/ |
| slim {adj} (slender) | :: نحيل /naḥīl/, نحيف /naḥīf/, أهيف /ʾahīf/ |
| sling {n} (instrument for throwing, see also: slingshot) | :: مقلاع /miqlāʿ/ |
| slingshot {n} (Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles, see also: sling) | :: مقلاع /miqlāʿ/ |
| slip {v} (to lose one's traction) | :: انزلق /inzalaqa/ |
| slipper {n} (low shoe slipped on and off easily) | :: خف {m} /ḵuff/, بابوج {m} /bābūj/ |
| slipper {n} (low shoe usually worn indoors) | :: خف {m} /ḵuff/ |
| slippery {adj} (of a surface) | :: زلق /zaliq/ |
| slipstick {n} (slide rule) SEE: slide rule | :: |
| slob {n} (lazy, obese person) | :: تنبل {m} /tanbal/ |
| sloe {n} (tree Prunus spinosa) SEE: blackthorn | :: |
| slogan {n} (phrase associated with a product, used in advertising) | :: شعار {m} /šiʿār/ |
| slope {n} (area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward) | :: منحدر |
| slope {n} (degree to which a surface tends upward or downward) | :: ميل /mayl/ |
| sloth {n} (laziness) | :: كسل {m} /kasal/ |
| sloth {n} (mammal) | :: كسلان {m} /kaslān/ |
| slot machine {n} (vending machine) SEE: vending machine | :: |
| slough {n} (the skin shed by a snake or other reptile) | :: سلخ {m} /salḵ/ |
| slough {v} (to shed (skin)) | :: انسلخ /insalaḵa/ , سلخ /salaḵa/ |
| Slovak {adj} (of Slovakia or its language) | :: سلوفاكي /slūfākiyy/ |
| Slovak {n} (native of Slovakia) | :: سلوفاكي {m} /slūfākiyy/, سلوفاكية {f} /slūfākiyya/ |
| Slovak {n} (language of Slovakia) | :: سلوفاكية {f} /slūfākiyya/ |
| Slovakia {prop} (Slovakia) | :: سلوفاكيا {f} /slovākiyā/ |
| Slovakian {adj} (of or pertaining to Slovakia) SEE: Slovak | :: |
| Slovakian {n} (a person from Slovakia or of Slovakian descent) SEE: Slovak | :: |
| Slovak Republic {prop} (official name of Slovakia) | :: جمهورية سلوفاكيا {f} /jumhūriyya(t) slūfākiyā/ |
| Slovene {adj} (adjective) | :: سلوفيني /slovēniyy/ |
| Slovene {n} (a person) | :: سلوفيني {m} /slovēniyy/, سلوفينية {f} /slovēniyya/ |
| Slovene {prop} (the language) | :: سلوفينية {f} /slovēniyya/ |
| Slovenia {prop} (country in Europe) | :: سلوفينيا {f} /slovēniyā/ |
| Slovenian {adj} (Slovene) SEE: Slovene | :: |
| Slovenian {n} (language) SEE: Slovene | :: |
| Slovenian {n} (person) SEE: Slovene | :: |
| Slovincian {prop} (extinct language of the Slovincian people) | :: سلوفينسية {f} /slūfīnsiyya/, لغة سلوفينسية {f} /luḡa(t) slūfīnsiyya/ |
| slow {adj} (not quick in motion) | :: بطيء /baṭīʾ/ |
| slowly {adv} (at a slow pace) | :: ببطء /bi-buṭʾ/ |
| sludge {n} (residual material from a process) | :: حمأ /ḥamaʾ/, حمأة {f} |
| sludge {n} (sediment of minerals in a steam boiler) | :: رسابة {f} /rusāba/ |
| sluff {n} (slough) SEE: slough | :: |
| sluff {v} (slough) SEE: slough | :: |
| slug {n} (gastropod) | :: بزاقة {f} /bazzāqa/ |
| sluice gate {n} (portal to allow passage of water) | :: خوخة {f} /ḵawḵa/ |
| slum {n} (dilapidated neighborhood) | :: منطقة عشوائية {f} /minṭaqa ʿašwāʾiyya/ |
| slut {n} (prostitute) SEE: prostitute | :: |
| slut {n} | :: امرأة فاسقة {f} /imraʾa(t) fāsqa/, مومس /mūms/ |
| sly {adj} (artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily) | :: خبيث /ḵabīṯ/, ماكر /mākir/ |
| smack {n} ((slang) heroin) SEE: horse | :: |
| small {adj} (not large) | :: صغير /ṣaḡīr/ |
| small {adj} (young) | :: صغير /ṣaḡīr/ |
| small change {n} (a minor or insignificant amount of money) | :: فراطة {f} /furāṭa/ |
| smallest room {n} (toilet) SEE: toilet | :: |
| smallness {n} (state of being small) | :: صغر {m} /ṣiḡar/ |
| small of the back {n} (lumbar region of the back) | :: مستدق الظهر {m} /mustadaqq aẓ-ẓahr/ |
| smallpox {n} (disease) | :: جدري {m} /judariyy/ |
| small talk {n} (idle conversation) | :: كلام خفيف {m} /kalām ḵafīf/, محادثة خفيفة {f} /muḥādaṯa ḵafīfa/ |
| smaragdine {n} (emerald) SEE: emerald | :: |
| smart {adj} (exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books) | :: ذكي /ḏakiyy/ |
| smartphone {n} (electronic handheld device) | :: هاتف ذكي {m} /hātif ḏakiyy/, سمارت فون {m} /simārt fūn/ |
| smash {v} (to break violently) | :: كسر /kassara/ |
| smash {v} (be destroyed by being smashed) | :: تكسر /takassara/ |
| smatter {v} (intransitive: talk superficially) | :: هذى /haḏā/ |
| smatter {v} (to speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge) | :: لحن /laḥana/ |
| smegma {n} (sebaceous secretion) | :: لخن {m} /laḵan/ |
| smell {n} (sensation) | :: رائحة {f} /rāʾiḥa/, ريحة {f} /rīḥa/ |
| smell {n} (sense of smell) | :: شم {m} /šamm/ |
| smell {v} (sense with nose) | :: شم /šamma/, اشتم /ištamma/ |
| smell {v} (to have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or "of") | :: شمم /šammama/ |
| smelly {adj} (having a bad smell) | :: منتن /muntin/ |
| smell you later {interj} (see you later; goodbye) SEE: goodbye | :: |
| smile {n} (a happy face expression using mouth, but without producing voice) | :: ابتسامة {f} /ibtisāma/, بسمة {f} /basma/ |
| smile {v} (to have a smile on one's face) | :: ابتسم /ibtasama/ |
| smith {n} (craftsperson who works metal, see also: blacksmith) | :: حداد {m} /ḥaddād/, قين {m} /qayn/ |
| Smith {prop} (transliterations of the name Smith) | :: سميث /smīṯ/ |
| Smith {prop} (surnames derived from the equivalents of “smith”) | :: حداد /ḥaddād/ |
| Smith {prop} (most common surnames by language) | :: حداد /ḥaddād/ |
| smithsonite {n} (mineral) | :: سميثسونيت |
| smog {n} (urban air pollution) | :: ضبخان {m} /ḍubḵān/, الضباب الدخاني {m} /aḍ-ḍabāb ad-duḵāniyy/ |
| smoke {v} (to inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette) | :: دخن /daḵḵana/ |
| smoke {v} (to inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually) | :: دخن /daḵḵana/ |
| smoke {v} (to give off smoke) | :: دخن /daḵana/ |
| smoke {n} (visible particles and vapour given off by burning material) | :: دخان {m} /duḵān/ |
| Smoke {prop} (44th sura of the Qur'an) | :: سورة الدخان |
| smoker {n} (person who smokes tobacco habitually) | :: مدخن /mudaḵḵin/ |
| smokestack {n} (a conduit or group of conduits atop a structure allowing smoke to flow out) SEE: chimney | :: |
| smoking {n} (smoking of tobacco) | :: تدخين {m} /tadḵīn/ |
| Smolensk {prop} (city) | :: سمولينسك {m} /smulinsk/ |
| smooth {adj} (lacking friction, not rough) | :: ناعم /nāʿim/ |
| SMS {n} (a text message sent on a cell phone) | :: رسالة {f} /risāla/, رسالة إس إم إس {f} /risālat ʾes ʾem ʾes/ |
| smuggle {v} (to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties) | :: هرب /harraba/ |
| smuggling {n} (an act of something being smuggled) | :: تهريب {m} /tahrīb/ |
| smurf {n} (fictional character) | :: سنفور {m-s} /sanfūr/, سنافر {m-p} /sanāfir/ |
| smut {n} (soot) SEE: soot | :: |
| Smyrna {prop} (city) | :: سميرنا /smīrnā/ |
| snack {n} (a light meal) | :: وجبة خفيفة {f} /wajba ḵafīfa/ |
| snail {n} (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell) | :: حلزونة {f} /ḥalazūna/, حلزون {m} /ḥalazūn/ |
| snake {n} (legless reptile) | :: ثعبان {m} /ṯuʿbān/, حنش {m} /ḥanaš/, حية {f} /ḥayya/, أفعى {f} /ʾafʿā/ |
| snap bean {n} (unripe or green fruit pod of a bean plant) SEE: green bean | :: |
| Snapchat {prop} (A photo-messaging application.) | :: سناب /snāb/ |
| snapdragon {n} (any plant of the genus Antirrhinum) | :: أنف العجل {m} /ʾanf al-ʿijl/ |
| snare {n} (trap) | :: شرك {m} /šarakun/, مصيدة {f} /miṣyadatun/ |
| sneaker {n} (one who sneaks) | :: متسلل /mutasallil/ |
| sneaker {n} (leisure shoes, often worn for sports; trainers) | :: حذاء رياضي {m} /ḥiḏāʾ riyāḍiyy/ |
| sneeze {v} (expel air as a reflex) | :: عطس /ʿaṭasa/ |
| sneeze {n} (act of sneezing) | :: عطاس {m} /ʿuṭās/, عطسة {f} /ʿaṭsa/ |
| Snickers {n} (chocolate bar) | :: سنيكرز |
| sniff out {v} (find something using smell) | :: يشم /yašumm/,يكتشف /yaktašif/,عثر على |
| sniper {n} (a person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position) | :: قناص {m} /qannāṣ/ |
| snob {n} (person who seeks to be a member of the upper classes) | :: متعال {m} /mutaʿālin/, المتعالي {m} /al-mutaʿālī/ |
| snooker {n} (cue sport) | :: سنوكر {m} /snukar/, سنوكر {m} /snūkar/ |
| snoop {v} (to secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others) | :: تجسس /tajassasa/ |
| Snoopy {prop} (pet beagle) | :: سنوبي {m} /snūbī/ |
| snore {v} (breathe during sleep with harsh noises) | :: شخر /šaḵara/ |
| snore {n} (act and noise of snoring) | :: شخير {m} /šaḵīr/ |
| snot {n} (mucus) | :: مخاط {m} /muḵāṭ/, مخاط أنف {m} /muḵāṭ ʾanf/ |
| snow {n} (precipitation) | :: ثلج {m} /ṯalj/ |
| snow {v} (have snow fall from the sky) | :: أثلج /ʾaṯlaja/ |
| snowball {n} (ball of snow) | :: كرة الثلج {f} /kurat aṯ-ṯalj/ |
| Snowdonia {prop} (region) | :: سنودونيا {f} /sanudunia/ |
| snowflake {n} (crystal) | :: رقاقة الثلج {f} /ruqāqat aṯ-ṯalj/ |
| snow leopard {n} (a large feline mammal, Uncia uncia) | :: نمر الثلوج {m} /nimr aṯ-ṯulūj/ |
| snowman {n} (figure made of snow) | :: إنسان ثلجي {m} /ʾinsān ṯaljiyy/, تمثال ثلجي {m} /timṯāl ṯaljiyy/ |
| snow plow {n} (vehicle) | :: كاسحة ثلوج {f} /kāsiḥa(t) ṯulūj/ |
| Snow Queen {prop} (fairy tale character with power over snow and ice) | :: ملكة الثلج {f} /malika(t) aṯ-ṯalji/ |
| Snow White {prop} (character from Snow White (Schneewittchen)) | :: بيضاء الثلج {f} /bayḍāʾ aṯ-ṯalj/ |
| Snow White {prop} (character from Snow-White and Rose-Red (Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot)) | :: سنو وايت {f} /snū wāyt/ |
| snuff {n} (fine-ground tobacco) | :: استنشق /istanšaqa/ |
| so {n} (sol) SEE: sol | :: |
| so {conj} (with the result that) | :: ف /fa-/, لذا /li-ḏā/ |
| so {interj} (interjection used to introduce a new topic) | :: يعني /yaʿnī/ |
| so-and-so {n} (placeholder name) | :: فلان {m} /fulān/, فلانة {f} /fulāna/ |
| so-and-so {n} (anything generic) | :: فلان /fulān/, كذا وكذا /kaḏā wakaḏā/, كذا /kaḏā/ |
| soap {n} (soap opera) SEE: soap opera | :: |
| soap {n} (substance) | :: صابون {m} /ṣābūn/ |
| soap opera {n} (television serial) | :: تمثيلية {f} /tamṯīliyya/, , مسلسلات تلفزيونية {f-p} /musalsalāt tilifizyūniyya/, مسلسلات {p} /musalsilāt/ |
| soapwort {n} (herb) | :: غاسول {m} /ḡāsūl/, شرش الحلاوة {m} /širš al-ḥalāwa/, عرق الحلاوة {m} /ʿirq al-ḥalāwa/, صابونية {f} /ṣābūniyya/; Palestine: عصلج {m} /ʾaṣlaj/, عسلج {m} /ʾaslaj/ |
| soba {n} (Japanese buckwheat noodle) | :: سوبا {f} /sūbā/, سوبا {f} /sobā/ |
| sober {adj} (not drunk) | :: صاح /ṣāḥin/ |
| soccer {n} (game) | :: كرة القدم {f} /kurat al-qadam/ |
| Sochi {prop} (city in Russia) | :: سوتشي {m} /sōtšī/, سوتشي {m} /sūtšī/ |
| social {adj} (relating to society) | :: مجتمعي /mujtamaʿiyy/, اجتماعي /ijtimāʿiyy/ |
| social contract {n} (agreement or contract) | :: عقد اجتماعي {m} /ʿaqd ijtimāʿiyy/ |
| social democracy {n} (moderate left-wing political philosophy) | :: الديمقراطية الاجتماعية |
| socialism {n} (political philosophy of social and economic equality) | :: اشتراكية {f} /ištirākiyya/ |
| socialist {adj} (of, promoting, practicing, or characteristic of socialism) | :: اشتراكي /ištirākiyy/ |
| socialist {n} (one who practices or advocates socialism) | :: اشتراكي {m} /ištirākiyy/, اشتراكية {f} /ištirākiyya/ |
| Socialist Republic of Vietnam {prop} (official name of Vietnam) | :: جمهورية فيتنام الاشتراكية {f} /jumhūriyya(t) viyetnām al-ištirākiyya/ |
| social media {n} (interactive forms of media) | :: إعلام اجتماعي {m} /ʼiʻlām ijtimāʻiyy/ |
| society {n} (group of people sharing culture) | :: مجتمع {m} /mujtamaʿ/ |
| society {n} (people of one’s country or community as a whole) | :: اجتماعية {f} /ijtimāʿiyya/ |
| sociolect {n} (variant of language used by a social group) | :: لهجة اجتماعية |
| sociolinguistics {n} (the study of social and cultural effects on language) | :: لسانيات اجتماعية /lisāniyyāt ijtimāʿiyya/ |
| sociology {n} (study of society, human social interactions, etc.) | :: علم المجتمع {m} /ʿilm al-mujtamaʿ/ |
| sock {n} (covering for the foot) | :: جورب {m} /jawrab/, جوارب {m-p} /jawārib/ |
| socket {n} (mechanical opening) | :: مقبس {m} /maqbis/ |
| Socrates {prop} (Greek philosopher) | :: سقراط {m} /suqrāṭ/, سوكراتس {m} /sukrātis/ |
| Socratic method {prop} | :: طريقة سقراط {f} /ṭarīqa(t) suqrāṭa/ |
| soda {n} (sodium carbonate) | :: صودا {f} /ṣōdā/, كربونات الصوديوم {m} /karbunāt aṣ-ṣodyum/ |
| soda {n} (sweet, carbonated drink) | :: مشروب غازي {m} /mašrūb ḡāziyy/ |
| soda water {n} (water with carbon dioxide) | :: ماء الصودا {m} /māʾ aṣ-ṣōdā/ |
| sodium {n} (reactive metal) | :: صوديوم {m} /ṣodyum/ |
| sodium benzoate {n} (the sodium salt of benzoic acid) | :: بنزوات الصوديوم {m} /binzuwāt aṣ-ṣōdiyum/ |
| Sodom {prop} (city in the Middle East) | :: سدوم {f} /sadūm/, صديم {f} /ṣadīm/ |
| sodomist {n} (sodomist) | :: لوطي {m} /lūṭiyy/ |
| sodomite {n} | :: لوطي (lūʈi) {m} |
| sodomy {n} (sex held to be unnatural) | :: لواط {m} /liwāṭ/ |
| sofa {n} (upholstered seat) | :: أريكة {f} /ʾarīka/, كنبة {f} /kanaba/, تخت {f} /taḵt/, ديوان {m} /dīwān/ |
| so far {adv} (until now; previously; yet) | :: حتى الآن /ḥattā l-ʾāna/ |
| Sofia {prop} (the capital city of Bulgaria) | :: صوفيا {f} /ṣūfyā/ |
| soft {adj} (foolish) SEE: foolish | :: |
| soft {adj} (giving way under pressure) | :: ناعم /nāʿim/ |
| soft {adj} (of a cloth) | :: ناعم /nāʿim/ |
| soft cheese {n} (A standard type of infirm and little-ripened cheese) | :: جبن رطب {m} /jubn raṭib/ |
| soft drink {n} (sweet, non-alcoholic carbonated beverage) | :: مشروب غازي {m} /mašrūb ḡāziyy/ |
| softness {n} (the quality of being soft) | :: نعومة {f} /nuʿūmatun/ |
| soft palate {n} (tissue) | :: حنك رخو {m} /ḥanak raḵū/ |
| soft spot {n} (fontanelle) SEE: fontanelle | :: |
| software {n} (encoded computer instructions) | :: برمجيات {p} /barmajiyāt/, برامج الحاسب {m-p} /barāmij al-ḥāsib/ |
| soil {n} (mixture of sand and organic material) | :: تربة {f} /turba/, أرض {f} /ʾarḍ/ |
| soil {v} (to make dirty) | :: اتسخ /ittasaḵa/ |
| sol {n} (fifth note of a major scale) | :: سول {m} /sūl/, سول {m} /sol/ |
| solar {adj} (of or pertaining to the sun) | :: شمسي /šamsiyy/ |
| solar eclipse {n} (when the Moon passes between the Earth and the sun) | :: كسوف الشمس {m} /kusūf aš-šams/ |
| solar flare {n} (violent explosion) | :: انفجار شمسي {m} /infijār šamsiyy/ |
| solar system {n} (any collection of heavenly bodies orbiting a star) | :: منظومة شمسية {f} |
| solar system {prop} (Solar System) SEE: Solar System | :: |
| Solar System {prop} (the Sun and all the heavenly bodies that orbit around it) | :: منظومة شمسية {f} /manẓūma šamsiyya/, مجموعة شمسية {f} /majmūʿa šamsiyya/, نظام شمسي {m} /niẓām šamsiyy/ |
| solar wind {n} (outflow of charged particles from the solar corona into space) | :: رياح شمسية {f-p} /riyāḥ šamsiyya/ |
| soldering iron {n} (tool) | :: مكواة اللحام {f} /mikwātu l-laḥḥām/, كاوية اللحام {f} /kāwiyatu l-laḥḥām/ |
| soldier {n} (member of an army) | :: جندي {m} /jundiyy/, عسكري {m} /ʿaskariyy/ |
| sole {n} (bottom of the foot) | :: أخمص {m} /ʾaḵmuṣ/ |
| sole {n} (bottom of a shoe or boot) | :: نعل {m} /naʿl/ |
| sole {n} (fish) | :: سمك موسى {m} /samak mūsā/ |
| solecism {n} (error in the use of language) | :: لحن {m} /laḥn/ |
| solicitor {n} | :: أفوكاتو /avokātō/, محام /muḥāmin/ |
| solicitude {n} (anxiety) | :: عناية /ʿināya/ |
| solid {adj} (in the solid state) | :: صلب /ṣulb/ |
| solid {adj} | :: صلب /ṣulb/ |
| solidarity {n} (unifying bond between individuals with common goal or enemy) | :: تضامن {m} /taḍāmun/ |
| solidus {n} (slash) SEE: slash | :: |
| solitaire {n} (patience) SEE: patience | :: |
| solitary {n} (solitary confinement) SEE: solitary confinement | :: |
| solitary confinement {n} (forced isolation) | :: حبس انفرادي {m} /ḥabs infirādiyy/ |
| solitude {n} (state of being alone) | :: عزلة /ʿuzla/ |
| Solomon {prop} (king of Israel) | :: سليمان {m} /sulaymān/, سليمن {m} /sulaymān/ |
| Solomon {prop} (male given name) | :: سليمان /sulaymān/ |
| Solomon Islands {prop} (A country in Melanesia) | :: جزر سليمان {f-p} /juzur sulaymān/ |
| so long as {phrase} (as long as) SEE: as long as | :: |
| solstice {n} (point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun) | :: انقلاب شمسي {m} /inqilāb šamsiyy/ |
| solution {n} (liquid mixture) | :: محلول {m} /maḥlūl/ |
| solution {n} (an act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.) | :: حل {m} /ḥall/ |
| solution {n} (answer to a problem (mathematics)) | :: حل {m} /ḥall/ |
| solve {v} (to find an answer or solution) | :: ذاب /ḏāba/, حل /ḥalla/ |
| solver {n} (one who solves) | :: حال {m} /ḥāll/, حلال {m} /ḥallāl/ |
| Somali {n} (a language) | :: صومالية {f} /ṣomāliyya/ |
| Somali {n} (a person from Somalia or of Somali descent) | :: صومالي {m} /ṣomāliyy/, صومالية {f} /ṣomāliyya/ |
| Somali {adj} (pertaining to Somalia) | :: صومالي /ṣomāliyy/ |
| Somalia {prop} (country in the Horn of Africa) | :: الصومال {f} /aṣ-ṣomāl/ |
| Somalian {adj} (pertaining to Somalia) SEE: Somali | :: |
| Somalian {n} (someone from Somalia) SEE: Somali | :: |
| Somaliland {prop} (region) | :: أرض الصومال {f} /ʾarḍ aṣ-ṣomāl/ |
| Somaliland {prop} (unrecognized state) | :: صوماليلاند {f} /ṣomālīland/, أرض الصومال {f} /ʾarḍ aṣ-ṣomāl/ |
| some {pron} (certain number) | :: بعض {m} /baʿḍun/ |
| some {pron} (indefinite quantity or number) | :: بعض {m} /baʿḍ/ |
| some {pron} (indefinite amount, part) | :: بعض {m} /baʿḍ/ |
| some {determiner} (certain proportion of) | :: بعض {m} /baʿḍun/ |
| some {determiner} | :: بعض /baʿḍ/, حوالي /ḥawālī/ |
| somebody {pron} (some unspecified person) | :: أحد {m} /ʾaḥad/; as a subject, the participle of the verb is also used, e.g. |
| someday {adv} (sometime; at some time in the future) | :: يوما ما /yawman mā/ |
| someone {pron} (some person) | :: أحد /ʾaḥad/ |
| something {pron} (unspecified object) | :: شيء {m} /šayʾ/ |
| sometime {adj} (occasional) SEE: occasional | :: |
| sometime {adv} (obsolete: sometimes) SEE: sometimes | :: |
| sometimes {adv} (on certain occasions, but not always) | :: أحيانا /ʾaḥyānan/ |
| somewhat {pron} (something) SEE: something | :: |
| somewhere {adv} (in some place) | :: مكان ما /makān mā/ |
| somewhither {adv} (to some place) SEE: somewhere | :: |
| somoni {n} (national currency of Tajikistan) | :: ساماني {m} /sāmānī/ |
| son {n} (a male person in relation to his parents) | :: ابن {m} /ibn/; Judeo-Arabic: אבן /ibnun/ |
| son {n} (a son through major influence) | :: ابن {m} /ibn/ |
| son {n} (male descendant) | :: ابن {m} /ibn/ |
| son {n} (familiar address) | :: ابن {m} /ibn/ |
| Son {prop} (one of the three persons of the Trinity) | :: الابن {m} /al-ibn/ |
| sonar {n} (device) | :: سونار {m} /sūnār/ |
| song {n} (music with words) | :: أغنية {f} /ʾuḡniyya/, أغنية {f} /ʾuḡniya/ |
| Song of Solomon {prop} (book of the Bible) SEE: Song of Songs | :: |
| Song of Songs {prop} (book of the Bible) | :: سفر نشيد الأنشاد /sifru našīdi l-ʾanšādi/ |
| sonic {adj} (of or relating to sound) | :: صوتي /ṣawtiyy/ |
| sonic boom {n} (the audible effect of a shock wave in the air) | :: صوت عال {m} /ṣawt ʿālin/ |
| son-in-law {n} (son-in-law) | :: زوج الابنة {m} /zawj al-ibna/, صهر {m} /ṣihr/ |
| sonnet {n} (verse form consisting of fourteen lines) | :: سونيت |
| son of a bitch {n} (objectionable person) | :: ابن كلب {m} /ibn kalb/ |
| son of a gun {interj} (euphemism) | :: ابن الفاعلة {m} /ibnu l-fāʿilati/ |
| Son of God {prop} | :: ابن الله {m} /ibn allāh/ |
| Sony {prop} (An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan) | :: سوني {f} /sōni/ |
| Sonya {prop} (female given name) | :: صونيا |
| soon {adv} (within a short time) | :: قريبا /qarīban/ |
| sooner or later {adv} (set phrase; eventually) | :: عاجلا أم آجلا /ʿājilan ʾam ʾājilan/, عاجلا أو آجلا /ʿājilan ʾaw ʾājilan/, في نهاية المطاف /fī nihāyati l-maṭāfi/ |
| soot {n} (fine black or dull brown particles) | :: سخام {m} /suḵām/ |
| soothsayer {n} (one who predicts the future) | :: عراف {m} /ʿarrāf/ |
| soothsayer {n} (mantis or rearhorse) SEE: mantis | :: |
| sop {n} (gravy) SEE: gravy | :: |
| São Paulo {prop} (city and state) | :: ساو باولو {m} /saw bāwlū/ |
| Sophia {prop} (female given name) | :: صوفيا {f} /ṣūfiyā/ |
| sophist {n} (one who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument) | :: سوفسطائي {m} |
| Sophocles {prop} (Greek dramatic poet) | :: سوفوكليس {m} /sufuklis/ |
| soporific {n} (sleep inducing agent) | :: منوم /munawwim/ |
| soporific {adj} (tending to induce sleep) | :: منوم /munawwim/ |
| soppy {adj} | :: مفرط في العاطفية /mufriṭ fī l-ʿāṭifiyya/, صبياني /ṣibyāniyy/ |
| Sorani {prop} (Kurdish dialect) | :: سوراني /sūrāniyy/ |
| sorb {n} (wild service tree) SEE: wild service tree | :: |
| Sorbian {prop} (language) | :: صوربي {m} /ṣūrbiyy/ |
| sorcerer {n} (magician/wizard drawing upon natural powers) | :: ساحر {m} /sāḥir/ |
| sorceress {n} (female wizard) | :: ساحرة {f} /sāḥira/ |
| sorcery {n} (magical power) | :: سحر {m} /siḥr/ |
| sorghum {n} (cereal) | :: سرغوم {m} |
| sororal {adj} (of or pertaining to a sister) | :: أختي /ʾuḵtiyy/ |
| sororal nephew {n} (sister’s son) | :: ابن الاخت {m} /ibni l-uḵt/ |
| sororal niece {n} (sister’s daughter) | :: بنت الأخت {f} /bint al-ʾuḵt/ |
| sorrel {n} (plant) | :: حماض بستاني {m} /ḥummāḍ bustāniyy/ |
| sorrel {n} (colour) | :: أشقر {m} /ʾašqar/ |
| Sorrento {prop} (town in the province of Naples) | :: سورينتو {m} /surrēntu/ |
| sorrow {n} (unhappiness) | :: حزن {m} /ḥuzn/ |
| sorrowful {adj} (full of sorrow) | :: محزن /muḥzan/ |
| sorry {adj} (regretful for an action or grieved) | :: آسف /ʾāsif/ |
| sorry {interj} (expression of regret or sorrow) | :: آسف {m} /ʾāsif/, آسفة {f} /ʾāsifa/, أنا آسف {m} /ʾanā ʾāsif/, أنا آسفة {f} /ʾanā ʾāsifa/ |
| sorry {interj} (request to repeat) | :: عفوا! /ʿafwan!/, ماذا قلت؟ /māḏā qulta?/, ماذا قلت؟ /māḏā qulti?/, عذرا! /ʿuḏran!/ |
| sort {n} (type) | :: نوع {m} /nawʿ/ |
| so-so {adj} (neither good nor bad) | :: نصف نصف /niṣf niṣf/ |
| so-so {adv} (neither well nor poorly) | :: نصف نصف /niṣf niṣf/, نص نص /nuṣṣ nuṣṣ/ |
| so that {conj} (in order to) | :: حتى /ḥattā/ |
| soufflé {n} (baked dish) | :: نفيخة |
| soul {n} (the spirit or essence of a person that is often believed to live on after the person's death) | :: روح {m} {f} /rūḥ/, نفس {f} /nafs/ |
| soul patch {n} (narrow beard) | :: عنفقة |
| sound {n} (sensation perceived by the ear) | :: صوت {m} /ṣawt/ |
| sound {n} | :: صوت {m} /ṣawt/ |
| sound {v} (to produce a sound) | :: صوت /ṣawata/ |
| sound {n} (cuttlefish) SEE: cuttlefish | :: |
| sound {n} (air bladder) SEE: swim bladder | :: |
| sound engineer {n} (one who practices sound engineering) | :: مهندس صوت /muhandis ṣawt/ |
| sound plural {n} (in Arabic and other languages, regular plural formed by adding a suffix) | :: جمع سالم {m} /jamʿ sālim/ |
| soup {n} (dish) | :: شوربة {f} /šūraba/, شربة {f} /šurba/, حساء {m} /ḥasāʾ/ |
| souped-up {adj} (drunk, intoxicated) SEE: drunk | :: |
| souped-up {adj} (excited) SEE: excited | :: |
| soupçon {n} (suspicion, suggestion) SEE: suspicion | :: |
| soupçon {n} (very small amount) SEE: modicum | :: |
| soup spoon {n} (spoon for eating soup) SEE: soupspoon | :: |
| soupspoon {n} (spoon for eating soup) | :: ملعقة الحساء {f} /milʿaqa(t) al-ḥasāʾ/ |
| souq {n} (a street market in the Arabic-speaking countries) | :: سوق {m} {f} /sūq/ |
| sour {adj} (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste) | :: حامض /ḥāmiḍ/ |
| source {n} (person, place or thing) | :: مصدر {m} /maṣdar/, مصادر {p} /maṣādir/ |
| source {n} (informant) | :: مصدر {m} /maṣdar/ |
| source {n} ((computing) source code) SEE: source code | :: |
| source code {n} (human-readable instructions in a programming language) | :: كود مصدري {m} /kūd maṣdariyy/ |
| sour cream {n} (cream which has been treated with a benign bacterium) | :: كريم حامض {m} /krīm ḥāmiḍ/ |
| sour grapes {n} (acid grapes) | :: حصرم {m} /ḥiṣrim/ |
| south {n} (compass point) | :: جنوب {m} /janūb/ |
| South Africa {prop} (country) | :: جنوب إفريقيا {f} /janūb ʾifrīqiyyā/ |
| South African Defence Force {prop} (apartheid-era South African military) | :: قوات الدفاع الجنوب أفريقية |
| South America {prop} (continent that is the southern part of the Americas) | :: أمريكا الجنوبية {f} /ʾamrīkā l-janūbiyya/ |
| Southampton {prop} (city) | :: ساوثهامبتون /sawṯhambtūn/ |
| South Asia {prop} (South Asia) | :: جنوب آسيا {f} /janūb ʾāsiyā/ |
| South Australia {prop} (state of Australia) | :: جنوب أستراليا {f} /junūb ʾustrāliyā/ |
| South Carolina {prop} (US state) | :: كارولاينا الجنوبية {f} /karulaynā l-janubiyya/ |
| South Caucasus {prop} (region of southwest Asia) | :: جنوب القوقاز {m} /janūb al-qawqāz/ |
| South China Sea {prop} (Pacific Ocean, between the Asian mainland and Taiwan, Borneo and the Philippines) | :: بحر الصين الجنوبي {m} /baḥr aṣ-ṣīn al-janūbiyy/ |
| South Dakota {prop} (state of the USA) | :: داكوتا الجنوبية {f} /dakūtā l-janūbiyya/ |
| Southeast Asia {prop} (a subregion of Asia) | :: جنوب شرق آسيا {f} /janūb šarq ʾāsyā/ |
| southern {adj} (of the south) | :: جنوبي /janūbiyy/ |
| Southern Cross {prop} (constellation) | :: صليب الجنوب {m} /ṣalīb al-janūb/ |
| Southern Europe {prop} (Southern Europe) | :: أوروبا الجنوبية {f} /ʾurubbā l-janūbiyya/ |
| Southern Hemisphere {n} (hemisphere to the south of its equator) | :: نصف الكرة الأرضية الجنوبي {m} /nisf kura l-ʾardiyya l-janūbiyy/ |
| Southern Ocean {prop} (the ocean surrounding Antarctica) | :: المحيط المتجمد الجنوبي {m} /al-muḥīṭ al-mutajammid al-janūbiyy/, المحيط الجنوبي {m} /al-muḥīṭ al-janūbiyy/ |
| South Korea {prop} (country in East Asia) | :: كوريا الجنوبية {f} /kōriyā l-janūbiyya/, كوريا الجنوبية {f} /kūriyā l-janūbiyya/ |
| South Levantine Arabic {prop} (South Levantine Arabic) | :: اللهجة الجنوبية /allāhja(t) al-janūbiyya/ |
| South Ossetia {prop} (South Ossetia) | :: جنوب أوستيا /janūb ʾusītyā/ |
| south pole {n} (the southernmost point on a celestial body) | :: القطب الجنوبي {m} /al-quṭb al-janūbiyy/ |
| South Pole {prop} (the southernmost point on Earth) | :: القطب الجنوبي {m} /al-quṭb al-janūbiyy/ |
| South Sea {prop} (Southern Ocean) SEE: Southern Ocean | :: |
| South Sudan {prop} (country in Africa) | :: جنوب السودان {m} /janūb as-sūdān/ |
| South Yemen {prop} (country) | :: جنوب اليمن {f} /janūb al-yaman/ |
| souvenir {n} (item of sentimental value to remember an event or location) | :: تذكار {m} /taḏkār/ |
| sovereignty {n} (of a nation: the state of making laws and controlling resources without the coercion of other nations.) | :: سيادة {f} /siyāda/ |
| soviet {n} (council) | :: سوفييت {m} /sōvyēt/, سوفيات {m} /sufyāt/, سوفيات {m} /sovyēt/, سوفيات {m} /sovyēt/, سوفيت {m} /sovyet/ |
| soviet {adj} (relating to the Soviet Union) SEE: Soviet | :: |
| Soviet {n} (soviet) SEE: soviet | :: |
| Soviet {adj} (pertaining to the Soviet Union or its republics) | :: سوفيتي /sovyetiyy/, سوفييتي /sovyētiyy/, سوفياتي /suvyātiyy/, سوفياتي /sufyātiyy/ |
| Soviet Russia {prop} (Russia) SEE: Russia | :: |
| Soviet Russia {prop} (Soviet Union) SEE: Soviet Union | :: |
| Soviet Union {prop} (USSR, see also: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR) | :: الاتحاد السوفياتي {m} /al-ittiḥādu s-sūfyātiyy/ |
| sow {n} (female pig) | :: خنزيرة {f} /ḵinzīra/ |
| sow {v} (disperse seeds) | :: زرع /zaraʿa/, بذر /baḏara/ |
| sow thistle {n} (thistle) | :: تفاف {m} /tifāf/ |
| soy {n} (soy beans) | :: صويا {f} /ṣūyā/ |
| soy {n} (soy sauce) SEE: soy sauce | :: |
| soya bean {n} (soybean) SEE: soybean | :: |
| soybean {n} (plant) | :: فول الصويا {m-p} /fūl aṣ-ṣūyā/ |
| soybean {n} (seed) | :: فول الصويا {m-p} /fūl aṣ-ṣūyā/ |
| soy sauce {n} (a condiment and ingredient made from fermented soybeans) | :: صلصة الصويا {f} /ṣalṣat aṣ-ṣūyā/ |
| Soyuz {n} (a Soviet/Russian spacecraft) | :: سويوز {m} /suyūz/ |
| spa {n} (spa) | :: منتجع {m} /muntajaʿ/ |
| space {n} (physical extent in two or three dimensions) | :: فراغ /farāḡ/, مكان {m} /makān/ |
| space {n} (area beyond atmosphere of planets) | :: فضاء {m} /faḍāʾ/ |
| space age {n} (current historical period which started with the launch of the Sputnik) | :: عصر الفضاء {m} /ʿaṣr al-faḍāʾ/ |
| spaceship {n} (vehicle that flies through space) | :: سفينة فضائية {f} /safīna faḍāʾiyya/, مركبة فضائية {f} /markaba faḍāʾiyya/ |
| space shuttle {n} (vehicle capable of travelling repeatedly btw Earth and outer space) | :: مكوك فضاء {m} /makūk faḍāʾ/ |
| space station {n} (crewed artificial satellite) | :: محطة فضاء {f} /muḥaṭṭat faḍāʾ/ |
| space suit {n} | :: فضاء تناسب /faḍāʾ tanāsub/ |
| space-time {n} (spacetime) SEE: spacetime | :: |
| spacetime {n} (four dimensional continuum) | :: زمكان {m} /zamakān/ |
| space travel {n} (travel through space in order to visit and explore other worlds) | :: الرحلات الفضائية {f-p} /ar-riḥlāt al-faḍāʾiyya/ |
| spacious {adj} (having much space; roomy) | :: واسع /wāsiʿ/, رحب /raḥb/ |
| spaciousness {n} (the state or quality of being spacious) | :: رحب {m} /ruḥb/, رحب {m} /raḥab/ |
| spade {n} (a garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging) | :: مجرفة {f} /mijrafa/, مجرف {m} /mijraf/, مسحاة {f} /misḥāh/ |
| spade {n} (one of the black suits in a deck of cards) | :: البستوني {m} /al-bastūniyy/ |
| spades {n} (spade) SEE: spade | :: |
| spades {n} (suit of playing cards) | :: البستوني {m} /al-bastūniyy/ |
| spaghetti {n} (pasta) | :: سباغيتي /sbāḡītī/ |
| spaghetti western {n} (western film produced in Europe by an Italian company) | :: فلم سباغيتي {m} /film sbāḡītī/, غربي سباغيتي {m} /ḡarbiyy sbāḡītī/, سباغيتي وسترن {m} /sbāḡītī wastarn/ |
| Spain {prop} (country in Europe) | :: إسبانية {f} /ʾisbāniya/, أسبانيا {f} /ʾasbāniyā/ |
| spam {n} (unsolicited bulk electronic messages) | :: بيان مزعج {m} /bayānun muzʿij/, سخام {m} /suḵām/ |
| span {n} (space from thumb to little finger) | :: شبر {m} /šibr/ |
| Spaniard {n} (somebody from Spain) | :: إسباني {m} /ʾisbāniyy/, إسبانية {f} /ʾisbāniyya/ |
| Spanish {adj} (of or pertaining to Spain) | :: إسباني /ʾisbāniyy/ |
| Spanish {adj} (of or pertaining to the Spanish language) | :: إسبانية |
| Spanish {prop} (Romance language of Spain and the Americas) | :: إسبانية {f} /ʾisbāniyya/ |
| spare {v} (to show mercy) | :: رحم /raḥima/ |
| spare part {n} (component kept in reserve) | :: قطعة غيار {f} /qiṭʿa ḡayār/ |
| spare time {n} (free time) SEE: free time | :: |
| spark {n} (particle of glowing matter) | :: شرارة {f} /šarāra/ |
| sparkler {n} (tiger beetle) SEE: tiger beetle | :: |
| sparkling water {n} (a form of carbonated water) SEE: soda water | :: |
| sparrow {n} (bird of the family Passeridae) | :: عصفور /ʿaṣfūr/, عصفور {m} /ʿuṣfūr/ |
| sparrow {n} (generically, any small, nondescript bird) | :: عصفور {m} /ʿaṣfūr/ |
| sparrow {n} (Passer domesticus) SEE: house sparrow | :: |
| sparrow hawk {n} (Accipiter nisus) SEE: Eurasian sparrowhawk | :: |
| sparrowhawk {n} (Eurasian sparrowhawk) SEE: Eurasian sparrowhawk | :: |
| Sparta {prop} (ancient city-state in southern Greece) | :: أسبرطة {f} /ʾasbarṭa/ |
| Spartacus {prop} (Thracian name) | :: سبارتاكوس |
| spasm {n} (contraction of a muscle) | :: تشنج {m} /tašannuj/ |
| spatter {v} (to splash with small droplets) | :: ترشيش, طرطشة |
| spatula {n} (kitchen utensil for turning and lifting) | :: ملعقة الصيدلي /milʿaqatu ṣ-ṣaydaliyyi/ |
| speak {v} (to communicate with one's voice using words) | :: تحدث /taḥaddaṯa/, تكلم /takallama/ |
| speak {v} (to be able to communicate in a language) | :: تكلم /takallama/ |
| speaker {n} (one who speaks) | :: خطيب {m} /ḵaṭīb/, متكلم {m} /mutakallim/ |
| speaker {n} (loudspeaker) | :: سماعة {f} /samāʿa/ |
| speaking {adj} (eloquent) SEE: eloquent | :: |
| speak of the devil {phrase} (expression used when a person mentioned in the current conversation happens to arrive) | :: اذكر غائبا تره /uḏkur ḡāʾiban tarahu/ (mention an absent person, and you shall see him) |
| spear {n} (long stick with a sharp tip) | :: رمح {m} /rumḥ/, حربة {f} /ḥarba/ |
| spearhead {n} (the pointed head, or end, of a spear) | :: رأس حربة |
| spearmint {n} (Mentha spicata) | :: نعناع مدبب {m} /naʿnāʿ mudabbab/ |
| special {adj} (distinguished by a unique or unusual quality) | :: خاص /ḵāṣṣ/ |
| specialist {n} (expert) | :: متخصص /mutaḵaṣṣiṣ/ |
| specialty {n} (that in which one specializes) | :: اختصاص {m} /iḵtiṣāṣ/ |
| species {n} (group of plants or animals having similar appearance) | :: نوع {m} /nawʿ/ |
| species {n} (rank in a taxonomic classification) | :: نوع /nawʿ/ |
| specific {adj} | :: معين /muʿayyin/ |
| spectacle {n} (optical instrument) SEE: spectacles | :: |
| spectacle {n} (something exciting or extraordinary) | :: مشهد {m} /mašhad/, مسرحية {f} /masraḥiyya/ |
| spectacled bear {n} (Tremarctos ornatus) | :: دب أبو نظارة {m} /daba 'abu nizaratan/ |
| spectacles {n} (a pair of lenses set in a frame) | :: نظارة {f} /naẓẓāra/ |
| spectacles {n} (plural of spectacle) SEE: spectacle | :: |
| spectator {n} (observer) | :: مشاهد {m} /mušāhid/, راء {m} /rāʾin/, متفرج {m} /mutafarrij/ |
| specter {n} (ghostly apparition) | :: شبح {m} /šabaḥ/, شبح {m} /šabḥ/ |
| spectroscope {n} (optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis) | :: مطياف {m} /miṭyāf/ |
| spectrum {n} (range of colors) | :: طيف {m} /ṭayf/ |
| speculative fiction {n} (class of fiction involving fantastic, supernatural or futuristic elements) | :: خيال تأملي {m} |
| speech {n} (dialect or language) SEE: dialect | :: |
| speech {n} (vocal communication) | :: حديث {m} /ḥadīṯ/, خطبة {f} /ḵuṭba/, كلام {m} /kalām/, قول {m} /qawl/, نطق {m} /nuṭq/ |
| speech {n} (an oration, session of speaking) | :: خطاب {m} /ḵiṭāb/, حديث {m} /ḥadīṯ/, كلام {m} /kalām/, قول {m} /qawl/, نطق {m} /nuṭq/ |
| speech is silver, silence is golden {proverb} (proverb) | :: إن كان الكلام من فضة فالسكوت من ذهب |
| speech recognition {n} (voice recognition) SEE: voice recognition | :: |
| speed {n} (luck, success, prosperity) SEE: luck | :: |
| speed {n} (rapidity) | :: سرعة {f} /surʿa/ |
| speed {n} (rate of motion) | :: سرعة {f} /surʿa/ |
| speed bump {n} (transverse ridge in the road) | :: مطب السرعة {m} /maṭabb as-surʿa/ |
| speed limit {n} (maximum speed permitted) | :: حد السرعة الأقصى {m} /ḥadd as-surʿa l-ʾuqṣā/, حد السرعة {m} /ḥadd as-surʿa/ |
| speed of light {n} (the speed of electromagnetic radiation in a perfect vacuum) | :: سرعة الضوء |
| speed of sound {n} (speed at which sound is propagated) | :: سرعة الصوت {f} |
| spell {n} (magical incantation) | :: تعويذة {f} /taʿwīḏa/ |
| spell {v} (to write or say the letters that form a word) | :: تهجأ /tahajjaʾa/ |
| spell {v} (to compose a word) | :: تهجئ /tahajjaʾa/ |
| spelling {n} (the practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography) | :: علم الإملاء {m} /ʿilm al-ʾimlāʾ/ |
| spelling {n} (a specific spelling of a word) | :: علم الإملاء {m} /ʿilm al-ʾimlāʾ/, هجاء {m} /hijāʾ/, تهجئة {f} /tahjiʾa/ |
| spelunk {n} (cave, cavern, grotto) SEE: cave | :: |
| spend {v} (to pay out) | :: أنفق /ʾanfaqa/, صرف /ṣarafa/ |
| spend {v} (to consume, to use up (time)) | :: قضى /qaḍā/ |
| spend {v} | :: صرف /ṣarafa/, أنفق /ʾanfaqa/, قضى /qaḍā/ |
| spendthrift {n} (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully) | :: مبذر {m} /mubaḏḏir/ |
| spend time {v} (dedicate time to an activity) | :: قضى وقت /qaḍā waqt/ |
| sperm {n} (cell) | :: نطفة {f} /nuṭfa/, حيوان منوي {m} /ḥayawān manawiyy/ |
| sperm {n} (semen (fluid)) | :: نطفة {f} /nuṭfa/, مني {m} /many/ |
| spermatozoid {n} (male gamete of certain basal plants) | :: حيوان منوي {m} /ḥayawān manawī/ |
| sperm bank {n} (vulgar: vagina) SEE: cunt | :: |
| sperm whale {n} (sperm whale) | :: حوت العنبر {m} /ḥūtu l-ʿanbar/ |
| spew {n} (vomit) SEE: vomit | :: |
| spew {n} (ejaculate) SEE: ejaculate | :: |
| spheral {adj} (spherical) SEE: spherical | :: |
| sphere {n} (mathematics: regular three-dimensional object) | :: كرة {f} /kura/ |
| sphere {n} (spherical physical object) | :: فلكة {f} /falka/ |
| sphere {n} (astronomy: apparent outer limit of space) SEE: celestial sphere | :: |
| spherical {adj} (shaped like a sphere) | :: كروي /kurawiyy/ |
| sphericity {n} (quality of being spherical) | :: كروية {f} /kurawiyya/ |
| sphincter {n} (band of muscle) | :: عاصرة {f} /ʿāṣira/ |
| sphinx {n} (mythology: creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal) | :: أبو الهول {m} /ʾabū l-hawl/ |
| sphinx {n} (sphincter) SEE: sphincter | :: |
| Sphinx {prop} (large monument in Egypt) | :: أبو الهول {m} /ʾabū l-hūl/ |
| spice {n} (Yorkshire dialect: sweets, candy) SEE: sweet | :: |
| spice {n} (plant matter used to season or flavour food) | :: بهار {m} /bahār/ |
| spick-and-span {adj} (clean, spotless) | :: جديد |
| spicy {adj} (tangy or pungent) | :: حريف /ḥirrīf/ |
| spider {n} (arthropod) | :: عنكبوت {m} /ʿankabūt/, شبث {m} /šabaṯ/ |
| Spider {prop} (29th sura of the Qur'an) | :: سورة العنكبوت |
| spiderweb {n} (net-like construct of a spider) | :: بيت العنكبوت {m} /bayt al-ʿankabūt/, نسيج العنكبوت {m} /nasīj al-ʿankabūt/ |
| spignel {n} (meum athamanticum) SEE: baldmoney | :: |
| spigot {n} (faucet) SEE: tap | :: |
| spike {n} (ear of grain) | :: سنبلة {f} /sunbula/ |
| spikenard {n} | :: سنبل هندي {m} /sunbul hindiyy/ |
| spill {v} (transitive: to drop something so that it spreads out) | :: دلق /dalaqa/, أراق /ʾarāqa/, أسجم /ʾasjama/ |
| spill one's guts {v} (vomit) SEE: vomit | :: |
| spinach {n} (a particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea) | :: سبانخ {m} /sabāniḵ/, إسفاناخ {m} /ʾisfānāḵ/ |
| spinal column {n} (spinal column) SEE: vertebral column | :: |
| spinal cord {n} (thick, whitish cord of nerve tissue) | :: نخاع شوكي {m} /nuḵāʿ šawkiyy/ |
| spindle {n} (dragonfly) SEE: dragonfly | :: |
| spindle {n} (rod in spinning and winding thread) | :: مغزل {m} /miḡzal/ |
| spindle tree {n} (tree of the genus Euonymus) SEE: spindle | :: |
| spine {n} (backbone) | :: عمود فقري {m} /ʿamūd faqriyy/ |
| spinel {n} (any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium) | :: لعل /laʿl/ |
| spine pig {n} (porcupine) SEE: porcupine | :: |
| spinning top {n} (a toy) | :: دوامة {f} /duwwāmatun/, بلبل {m} /bulbulun/ |
| spinning wheel {n} (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) | :: عجلة المغزل {f} /ʿajala(t) al-miḡzal/ |
| spin-off {n} (offshoot) SEE: offshoot | :: |
| spinster {n} (unmarried woman) | :: عانس {f} /ʿānis/, عانسة {f} /ʿānisa/ |
| spiny anteater {n} (common name for echidna) SEE: echidna | :: |
| spiny-tailed lizard {n} (any lizard of the genus Uromastyx) | :: ضب {m} /ḍabb/ |
| spiral {n} (geometry) | :: لولب {m} /lawlab/, برغي {m} /burḡiyy/, حلزون {m} /ḥalazūn/ |
| spiral galaxy {n} (spiral galaxy) | :: مجرة حلزونية {f} /majara ḥalazūniyya/ |
| spirit {n} (soul) | :: روح {m} {f} /rūḥ/ |
| spirit {n} (supernatural being) | :: روح {m} {f} /ruwaḥ/ |
| spirit level {n} (spirit level) | :: ميزان ماء {m} /mīzānu māʾ/ |
| spiritual {adj} (of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul) | :: روحاني /rūḥāniyy/, روحي /rūḥiyy/ |
| spit {v} (to dig, to spade) SEE: dig | :: |
| spit {n} (thin rod on which meat is skewered for cooking) | :: سفود {m} /saffūd/, سيخ {m} /sīḵ/ |
| spit {v} (to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.) | :: بصق /baṣaqa/, بزق /bazaqa/, تفل /tafala/ |
| spit {n} (saliva) | :: بزاق {m} /buzāq/ |
| spleen {n} (organ) | :: طحال {m} /ṭiḥāl/ |
| splendid {adj} | :: مشرق /mušriq/ |
| splice {v} (to unite in marriage) SEE: marry | :: |
| splinter {n} (fragment of material) | :: شظية {f} /šaẓiyya/ |
| split {v} (divide along a more or less straight line) | :: قسم /qasama/ |
| split {v} (separate) | :: انفصل |
| split {v} (divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach) SEE: peach | :: |
| Split {prop} (port city in Croatia) | :: أسبالطو {m} , سبليت {m} /siblīt/ |
| Spoils of War {prop} (8th sura of the Qur'an) | :: سورة الأنفال |
| spoilt {adj} (of food: rendered unusable or inedible) | :: مدلل /mudallal/ |
| spoken {adj} (concerning speech) | :: منطوق /manṭūq/, شفهي /šafahiyy/, محكي /maḥkiyy/ |
| spondyle {n} (joint of the backbone) SEE: vertebra | :: |
| sponge {n} (marine invertebrate) | :: إسفنج {m} /ʾisfanj/ |
| sponge {n} (piece of porous material used for washing) | :: سفنج {m} /safing/ |
| sponge {n} (sponge cake) SEE: sponge cake | :: |
| sponge cake {n} (type of soft cake made from flour, sugar, baking powder and eggs, with a spongy structure) | :: كعكة إسفنجية {f} /kaʿka(t) ʾisfanjiyya/ |
| spontaneous {adj} (random) SEE: random | :: |
| spool {n} (spindle) | :: بكرة {f} /bakara/ |
| spoon {n} (scooped utensil for eating (or serving)) | :: ملعقة {f} /milʿaqa/; Baharna Arabic: خاشوقة {f} /ḵāšūga/ |
| spoon {n} (measure that will fit into a spoon) SEE: spoonful | :: |
| spoonful {n} (amount a spoon will hold) | :: ملء ملعقة |
| sport {n} (any athletic activity that uses physical skills) | :: رياضة {f} /riyāḍa/ |
| sportive {adj} (gay, frolicsome, merry) SEE: merry | :: |
| sportsman {n} (male athlete) | :: رياضي {m} /riyāḍiyy/ |
| sportsmanship {n} | :: روح رياضية {f} /rūḥ riyāḍiyya/ |
| sportswoman {n} (woman who engages in sports) | :: رياضية {f} /riyāḍiyya/ |
| spot {n} (a round or irregular patch of a different color) | :: بقعة {f} /buqʿa/ |
| spouse {n} (husband) SEE: husband | :: |
| spouse {n} (wife) SEE: wife | :: |
| spouse {n} (person in a marriage or marital relationship) | :: زوج {m} /zawj/, زوجة {f} /zawja/ |
| spread {v} (to disperse, scatter) | :: نشر /našara/ |
| spread {v} ((transitive) to disseminate, make known or present) | :: نشر /našara/ |
| sprig {n} (small shoot or twig) | :: عسلوج {m} /ʿaslūj/ |
| spring {n} (season between winter and summer in temperate climates) | :: ربيع {m} /rabīʿ/ |
| spring {n} (water springing from the ground) | :: عين {m} /ʿayn/, ينبوع {m} /yanbūʿ/ |
| spring {n} (device made of flexible material) | :: ياي /yāy/, زنبرك /zunburuk/, نابض /nābiḍ/ |
| spring {v} (to jump) SEE: jump | :: |
| spring {n} (jump) SEE: jump | :: |
| spring {n} (people sharing the same origin) SEE: race | :: |
| spring {n} (shoot) SEE: shoot | :: |
| spring {n} (erection of the penis) SEE: erection | :: |
| spring {n} (youth) SEE: youth | :: |
| spring {n} (time of growth, early stages) SEE: beginning | :: |
| springboard {n} (figuratively: anything that launches or provides impulse) | :: منطلق {m} |
| Spring Festival {n} (Chinese New Year) SEE: Chinese New Year | :: |
| spring onion {n} (Allium fistulosum) | :: بصل أخضر {m} /baṣal ʾaḵḍar/ (green onion) |
| Sprite {prop} (colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink) | :: سبرايت {m} /sbrāyt/ |
| spruce {n} (tree from the genus Picea) | :: تنوب {m} /tannūb/ |
| spur {n} (implement for prodding a horse) | :: مهماز {m} /mihmāz/ |
| spur on {v} (spur) SEE: spur | :: |
| sputnik {n} (a Soviet robotic space satellite) | :: سبوتنيك {m} /sbūtnik/, سبوتنيك {m} /sputnik/ |
| spy {n} (person who secretly watches) | :: جاسوس {m} /jāsūs/, جاسوسة {f} /jāsūsa/ |
| spyglass {n} (binoculars) SEE: binoculars | :: |
| spying {n} (espionage) SEE: espionage | :: |
| spyware {n} (program) | :: برامج تجسس {m-p} /barāmij tajassus/ |
| SQL {n} (SQL (Structured Query Language)) | :: إس كيو إل {m} /ʾes kyū ʾel/, إس كيو إل {m} /ʾis kyū ʾil/ |
| squab {n} (baby pigeon) | :: زغلول {m} /zuḡlūl/, جوزل {m} /jawzal/ |
| square {n} (type of polygon) | :: مربع {m} /murabbaʿ/ |
| square {n} (open space in a town) | :: ميدان {m} /maydān/ |
| square {adj} (shaped like a square) | :: مربع /murabbaʿ/ |
| square {adj} (used in the names of units) | :: مربع /murabbaʿ/ |
| square {n} (act quarrelling) SEE: quarrel | :: |
| square {v} (to take opposing sides) SEE: quarrel | :: |
| square {adj} (fair) SEE: fair | :: |
| square matrix {n} (matrix having the same number of rows as columns) | :: مصفوفة مربعة /maṣfuwfa(t) murabbaʿa/ |
| square metre {n} (standard unit of area) | :: متر مربع {m} /mitrun murabbaʿun/ |
| square root {n} (number) | :: جذر تربيعي {m} /jaḏr tarbīʿiyy/ |
| squat {v} (to bend at the knees) | :: جثم /jaṯama/ |
| squawk {n} (shrill noise) | :: صخب /ṣaḵab/ |
| squawk {v} (to make a squawking noise) | :: صخب /ṣaḵiba/ |
| squeegee {n} (tool used for cleaning glass) | :: مساحة {f} /massāḥa/ |
| squeeze {v} (to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once) | :: عصر /ʿaṣara/ |
| squid {n} (sea animal) | :: حبار {m} /ḥabbār/ |
| squirrel {n} (rodent) | :: سنجاب {m} /sinjāb/ |
| squirting cucumber {n} (Ecballium elaterium) | :: قثاء الحمار {m} /qiṯṯāʾ al-ḥimār/, فقوس الحمار {m} /faqqūs al-ḥimār/ |
| Sri Lanka {prop} (a country in South Asia) | :: سريلانكا {f} /sirīlānkā/, سرنديب /sarandīb/ |
| Srinagar {prop} (summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India) | :: سريناجار {m} /srinagār/ |
| stab {v} (To pierce or wound with pointed object) | :: طعن /ṭaʿana/ |
| stable {n} (building for animals with hoofs) | :: حظيرة {f} /ḥaẓīra/, اسطبل {m} /isṭabl/ |
| stable {n} (building for horses) | :: إسطبل {m} /ʾisṭabl/ |
| stable {n} (stable for oxen, cows, cattle) | :: زريبة {f} /zarība/ |
| stable {adj} (relatively unchanging) | :: ثابت /ṯābit/ |
| stack {n} (a pile of identical objects) | :: كومة {f} |
| stadium {n} (venue where sporting events are held) | :: ملعب {m} /malʿab/, إستاد {m} /ʾistād/ |
| stag {n} (adult male deer) | :: أيل {m} /ʾayyal/ |
| stage {n} (phase) | :: مرحلة {f} /marḥala/ |
| stage {n} (in theatre) | :: منصة {f} /munaṣṣa/, مسرح {m} /masraḥ/, خشبة المسرح {f} /ḵašabatu l-masraḥ/ |
| stage fright {n} (state of nervousness about performing) | :: رهاب المسرح /rahāb al-masraḥ/ |
| stagflation {n} (inflation accompanied by stagnant growth) | :: الركود التضخمي |
| stagger {n} (an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing) | :: ترنح {m} /tarannuḥ/ |
| stagger {v} (to move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking) | :: ترنح /tarannaḥa/ |
| staggered {adj} (astonished) SEE: astonished | :: |
| stain {n} (discoloured spot or area) | :: بقعة {f} /buqʿa/ |
| stained glass {n} (coloured glass) | :: زجاج معشق {m} |
| stainless {n} (stainless steel) SEE: stainless steel | :: |
| stainless steel {n} (corrosion-free alloy) | :: فولاذ غير قابل للصدأ {m} /fūlāḏ ḡayr qābil li-ṣ-ṣadaʾ/ |
| stair {n} (series of steps) | :: سلالم {m-p} /salālim/ |
| staircase {n} (stairway) | :: بيت الدرج {m} /bayt ad-daraj/, درج {m} /daraj/, سلم {m} /sullam/ |
| stairs {n} (contiguous set of steps) | :: سلالم {m-p} /salālim/ |
| stairwell {n} (a shaft in a multi-story building enclosing a stairway or staircase) | :: عمود السلم {m} /ʿamūd as-sullam/ |
| stake {n} (pointed long and slender piece of wood etc.) | :: وتد {m} /watid/, خازوق {m} /ḵāzūq/ |
| stake {n} (timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned) | :: محرقة {f} /miḥraqa/ |
| stake {n} (share or interest in a business) | :: حصة {f} /ḥiṣṣa/ |
| stake {n} (wager or pledge) | :: رهان {m} /rihān/ |
| stakeholder {n} (escrow agent) | :: وكيل الضمان {m} |
| stalemate {n} (blocked situation without personal loss) | :: طريق مسدود, مأزق |
| Stalin {prop} (Stalin) | :: ستالين {m} /stālin/ |
| Stalinism {n} (Communist philosophies espoused by Josef Stalin) | :: ستالينية {f} /stālīniyya/ |
| stalk {n} (stem or main axis of a plant) | :: ساق {f} /sāq/ |
| stalker {n} (a person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions) | :: مطارد {m} /muṭārid/ |
| stallion {n} (uncastrated male horse) | :: جواد {m} /jawād/ |
| stamen {n} (A flower part that produces pollen) | :: سداة /sadāh/ |
| stamina {n} (power of sustained exertion) | :: تحمل /taḥammul/ |
| stammer {v} (to stutter) | :: تلجلج /talajlaja/, تلعثم /talaʿṯama/ |
| stamp {n} (act of stamping) | :: ختم {m} /xatm/ |
| stamp {n} (any small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, see also: postage stamp) | :: طابع {m} /ṭaabaʕ/ |
| stamp {n} (postage stamp) SEE: postage stamp | :: |
| -stan {suffix} (home of; place where one stays; used especially in place names) | :: ستان /-stān/ |
| stance {n} (manner, pose, or posture in which one stands) | :: موقف {m} /mawqif/ |
| stanchion {n} (vertical pole, post or support) | :: عمود ، دعامة ، قائم دعم فولاذي |
| stand {v} (to support oneself on the feet in an erect position) | :: وقف /waqafa/ |
| stand {v} | :: وقف /waqafa/ |
| standard {adj} (falling within an accepted range) | :: معياري /miʿyāriyy/ |
| standard {n} (level of quality) | :: مستوى {f} /mustawā/, معيار {m} /miʿyār/ |
| standard language {n} (standard variety) | :: معيرة لغة {f} /muʿīra luḡa/ |
| standard of living {n} (relative measure of quality of life) | :: مستوى المعيشة {m} /mustawā l-maʿīša/ |
| stand for {v} (to mean, symbolize or represent) | :: إستند /ʾistanada/ |
| stand for {v} (to advocate or support) | :: ساند /sānada/ |
| standing on one's head {adv} (hands down) SEE: hands down | :: |
| stand up {v} (rise from a sitting position) | :: قام /qāma/ |
| stanza {n} (a unit of a poem) | :: مقطع {m} /maqṭaʿ/ |
| stapler {n} (device which binds together paper) | :: دباسة {f} /dabbāsa/ |
| star {n} (luminous celestial body) | :: نجم {m} /najm/, كوكب /kawkab/ |
| star {n} ((astronomy) a luminous celestial body) | :: نجم {m} /najm/, كوكب /kawkab/ |
| star {n} (celebrity) | :: نجمة {f} /najma/ |
| Starbucks {prop} (chain of coffee shops) | :: ستاربكس {m} /starbaks/ |
| starch {n} (substance) | :: نشاء /našāʾ/ |
| stare {v} (to look fixedly) | :: حدق /ḥaddaqa/ |
| starfish {n} (various echinoderms) | :: نجمة البحر {f} /najmatu l-baḥri/ |
| star fruit {n} (fruit) | :: فاكهة النجمة {f} /fākihat an-najma/ |
| Star of Bethlehem {prop} (star mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew) | :: نجم بيت لحم {m} /najm bayta laḥma/ |
| Star of David {prop} (symbol of Jewish Community and Judaism) | :: نجمة داوود {f} /najma(t) dāwūd/ |
| starring {v} (present participle of "to star") SEE: star | :: |
| Stars {prop} (53rd sura of the Qur'an) | :: سورة النجم |
| start {n} (beginning of an activity) | :: نجمة {f} /najma/, ابتداء /ibtidāʾ/ |
| start {n} (beginning point of a race) | :: نجمة {f} /najma/ |
| start {v} (to begin) | :: بدأ /badaʾa/ |
| startle {v} (to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension) | :: فاجأ /فاجأ/, باغث /باغث/ |
| starvation {n} (condition) | :: تضور جوعا {m} /taḍawwur jūʿan/ |
| starve {v} (to die because of lack of food) | :: مات جوعا /māta jawʿan/ |
| Star Wars {prop} (Saga) | :: حرب النجوم {f} /ḥarb an-nujūm/ |
| state {n} (any sovereign polity) | :: دولة {f} /dawla/ |
| state {n} (a political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy) | :: ولاية {f} /wilāya/ |
| state {n} (a condition) | :: حالة {f} /ḥāla/ |
| state {v} (make known) | :: يبدي {m} /yubdī/ |
| state {v} | :: قرر /qarara/ |
| statefunction {n} (wavefunction) SEE: wavefunction | :: |
| statement {n} (declaration or remark) | :: تصريح {m} /taṣrīḥ/ |
| statement {n} | :: بيان {m} /bayān/, تصريح {m} /taṣrīḥ/ |
| State of Eritrea {prop} (official name of Eritrea) | :: دولة إرتريا {f} /dawlat ʾiritriyā/ |
| State of Israel {prop} (country (official name)) | :: دولة إسرائيل {f} /dawlat ʾisrāʾīl/ |
| State of Kuwait {prop} (country (official name)) | :: دولة الكويت {f} /dawlat al-kuwayt/ |
| state of matter {n} (different phases of matter) | :: حالة تجمع {f} /ḥāla(t) tajammuʿ/ |
| State of Qatar {prop} (Official name of Qatar.) | :: دولة قطر {f} |
| State of the Union {prop} (annual address given by the US president) | :: خطبة حالة الاتحاد {f} /ḵuṭbat ḥālat al-ittiḥād/ |
| statesman {n} (man who is a leader in national or international affairs) | :: رجل دولة {m} /rajul dawla/ |
| static electricity {n} (an electric charge) | :: كهرباء ساكنة |
| station {n} (place where a vehicle may stop) | :: محطة {f} /maḥaṭṭa/ |
| stationary bicycle {n} (exercise bicycle) SEE: exercise bicycle | :: |
| stationery {n} (writing materials) | :: قرطاسية {f} /qirṭāsiyya/ |
| statistics {n} (mathematical science) | :: علم الإحصاء {m} /ʿilm al-ʾiḥṣāʾ/, إحصائيات {f-p} /ʾiḥṣāʾiyyāt/, إحصاء {m} /ʾiḥṣāʾ/ |
| statistics {n} (collection of measurements) | :: إحصائيات {?} /ʾiḥṣāʾiyyāt/, إحصاء {m} /ʾiḥṣāʾ/ |
| statue {n} (three-dimensional work of art) | :: تمثال {m} /timṯāl/, دمية {f} /dumya/ |
| statue {n} (portrait) SEE: portrait | :: |
| stature {n} | :: قامة {f} /qāma/ |
| status {n} (person’s position or standing) | :: ترتيب /tartīb/, درجة /daraja/, رتبة /rutba/, مرتبة /martaba/, منزلة /manzila/, منصب /manṣib/ |
| status {n} | :: وضع اجتماعي {m} /waḍʿ ijtimāʿiyy/ |
| status quo {n} (the state of things) | :: وضع راهن {m} /waḍʿ rāhin/ |
| status symbol {n} (visible possession that is a sign of one's personal wealth or social status) | :: رمز المكانة {m} /ramz al-makāna/ |
| statute of limitations {n} (law that sets a time limit after some legal action may not take place) | :: تقادم {m} /taqādum/ |
| stavesacre {n} (perennial plant) | :: عائق جبلي {m} /ʿāʾiq jabaliyy/, زبيب الجبل {m} /zabīb al-jabal/, زبيب بري {m} /zabīb barriyy/, حب الرأس {m} /ḥabb ar-raʾs/ |
| Stavropol {prop} (city) | :: ستافروبول {m} /stafrubūl/ |
| stay {v} (to remain in a particular place) | :: مكث /makaṯa/, بقي /baqiya/ |
| steak {n} (slice of beef) | :: ستيك {m} /stayk/, ستيك {m} /steyk/, ستيك {m} /stīk/ |
| steal {v} (to illegally take possession of) | :: سرق /saraqa/ |
| steal {v} (to move silently) | :: استرق /istaraqa/ |
| steam {n} (water vapor) | :: بخار {m} /buḵār/ |
| steam {n} (steam-powered vehicle) SEE: steamer | :: |
| steamboat {n} (vessel powered by steam) | :: باخرة {f} /bāḵira/, سفينة بخارية {f} /safīna buḵāriyya/ |
| steamer {n} (vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam) | :: باخرة {f} /bāḵira/ |
| steamer {n} (cooking appliance) | :: قدر بخاري {m} /qidr buḵāriyy/ |
| steamer {n} (steamboat or steamship) | :: باخرة {f} /bāḵira/, سفينة بخارية {f} /safīna(t) buḵāriyya/ |
| steamroller {n} (steam-powered road roller) | :: هراس {m} /harrās/ |
| steamship {n} (vessel propelled by steam) | :: باخرة {f} /bāḵira/, سفينة بخارية {f} /safīna buḵāriyya/ |
| steatosis {n} (over-retention of lipids) | :: تنكس دهني /tanks dahni/ |
| steel {n} (metal produced from iron) | :: فولاذ {m} /fūlāḏ/ |
| steelyard {n} (steelyard balance) | :: قبان {m} /qabbān/, قرسطون {m} /qarasṭūn/ |
| steep {adj} (expensive) SEE: expensive | :: |
| steer {v} (intransitive: to guide the course) | :: قاد /qāda/ |
| steer {v} (transitive: to guide the course of) | :: قاد /qāda/ |
| steer {v} | :: توجيه |
| steer {n} (castrated male of cattle) | :: ثور {m} /ṯawr/ |
| steering wheel {n} (wheel-shaped control) | :: مقود {m} /miqwad/, عجلة القيادة {f} /ʿajalatu l-qiyādati/ |
| stela {n} (archaeology: an obelisk or upright stone pillar) SEE: stele | :: |
| stele {n} ((archaeology) tall, slender stone monument) | :: لوحة تذكارية {f} /lawḥa tidhkaria/ |
| stellar {adj} (of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars) | :: نجمي /najmiyy/ |
| stellar wind {n} (equivalent of solar wind) | :: رياح نجمية {f-p} /riyāḥ najmiyya/ |
| stench {n} (a strong foul smell, a stink) | :: نتانة {f} /natāna/ |
| step {n} (pace) | :: خطوة {f} /ḵuṭwa/, خطوة {f} /ḵaṭwa/ |
| step {n} (footstep) | :: خطوة {f} /ḵaṭwa/ |
| step {n} (manner of walking) | :: قيافة {f} /qiyāfa/, مشية {f} /mišya/ |
| Stepanakert {prop} (the capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) | :: سيتباناكيرت {m} /stibanakīrt/ |
| stepfather {n} (husband of one's biological mother, other than one's biological father) | :: زوج الأم {m} /zawj al-ʾumm/, راب {m} /rābb/ |
| Stephen {prop} (biblical martyr) | :: إسطفانوس /ʾisṭifānūs/, استفانوس {m} /istifānūs/ |
| Stephen {prop} (male given name) | :: إصتفان {m} /ʾiṣtifān/ (cognate), ستيفن {m} /stīfin/ |
| step in {v} (To act) SEE: act | :: |
| stepmother {n} (wife of one's biological father, not one's biological mother) | :: زوجة الأب {f} /zawjatu l-ʾab/, رابة {f} /rābba/ |
| steppe {n} (the grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia) | :: مرعى {f} /marʿā/, ستيب {m} /steb/, ستيب {m} /stīb/ |
| stereo {adj} (of sound) | :: ستيريو /steryo/ |
| stereotype {n} (conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image) | :: صورة نمطية {f} /ṣūra namaṭiyya/ |
| sterile {adj} (unable to reproduce) | :: عقيم {m}, عقيمة {f} |
| sterling {n} (the currency of the United Kingdom; especially the pound) | :: جنيه إسترليني {m} |
| stern {adj} (having a hardness and severity of nature or manner) | :: صارم /ṣārim/, متشدد /mutašaddid/ |
| sternum {n} (breastbone) SEE: breastbone | :: |
| stethoscope {n} (medical instrument) | :: سماعة الطبيب {f} /sammāʿatu ṭ-ṭabīb/, مسماع الصدر {m} /mismāʿu ṣ-ṣadr/ |
| Stettin {prop} (Szczecin) SEE: Szczecin | :: |
| steven {n} (command) SEE: command | :: |
| steven {n} (a prayer) SEE: prayer | :: |
| steven {n} (voice) SEE: voice | :: |
| Steven {prop} (male given name) SEE: Stephen | :: |
| stew {n} (dish) | :: يخنة {f} /yaḵna/ |
| stewardess {n} (female flight attendant) | :: مضيفة طيران {f} /muḍīfat ṭayarān/ |
| St. George's {prop} (the capital of Grenada) | :: سانت جورجز {m} /sant jurjis/ |
| stick {n} (twig or small branch) | :: غصين {m} /ḡuṣayn/ |
| stick {n} (long piece of wood) | :: عصا {m} /ʿaṣan/ |
| stick {n} (cylindrical piece (of chalk, wax etc)) | :: إصبع {m} /ʾiṣbaʿ/ |
| stick {n} (cane or walking stick) | :: عصا {m} /ʿaṣan/ |
| stick {n} (gearstick, stickshift) | :: عصا {m} /ʿaṣan/, عصي {f-p} /ʿuṣiyy/, عصي {f-p} /ʿiṣiyy/, أعص {p} /ʾaʿṣin/, عود {m} /ʿūd/, أعواد {p} /ʾaʿwād/, عكاز {m} /ʿukkāz/, عكازات {p} /ʿukkāzāt/, عكاكيز {p} /ʿakākīz/ , ذراع {m} /ḏirāʿ/ |
| sticking plaster {n} (adhesive bandage) SEE: band-aid | :: |
| stick note {n} (post-it note) SEE: post-it note | :: |
| stick plaster {n} (sticking plaster) SEE: band-aid | :: |
| sticky note {n} (post-it note) SEE: post-it note | :: |
| stiffen {v} (to become stiff) | :: جمد /jamada/ |
| stiletto {n} (awl) SEE: awl | :: |
| still {adv} (up to a time, as in the preceding time) | :: لا يزال /lā yazāl/ (negative form of زال), الى الأن /ilā l-ʾān/ |
| still {adv} (nevertheless) | :: رغم ذلك /raḡim ḏālik/, مع ذلك /maʿa ḏālik/ |
| stilt {n} (crutch) SEE: crutch | :: |
| sting {v} (of an insect: to bite) | :: لسع /lasaʿa/ |
| stingray {n} (venomous ray of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes) | :: سمكة راي لاسع {f} /samakat rāy lāsiʿ/, ستينغري {m} /stīnḡray/ |
| stingy {adj} (unwilling to spend or give) | :: بخيل /baḵīl/ |
| stink {v} (have a strong bad smell) | :: نتن /natuna/, نتن /natina/ |
| stinkbird {n} (hoatzin) SEE: hoatzin | :: |
| stinky {adj} (having a strong, unpleasant smell) | :: نتن /natin/, منتن /muntin/ |
| stir {v} (to change the place of in any manner; to move) | :: تحرك /taḥarraka/ |
| stir {v} | :: مزج /mazaja/ |
| stirrup {n} (footrest used by riders) | :: ركاب {m} /rikāb/ |
| stitch {v} (form stitches in) SEE: sew | :: |
| stitch {n} (single pass of the needle in sewing) | :: غرزة {f} /ḡaraza/ |
| stitch {v} (agriculture: to form land into ridges) SEE: plough | :: |
| stitch {n} (furrow) SEE: furrow | :: |
| stoat {n} (stoat) SEE: ermine | :: |
| stochastic {adj} (random) | :: عشوائي, غير مصمم /ḡayr muṣammam/ |
| stock {n} (part of gun, see also: butt) | :: قنداق {m} /qandāq/ |
| stock exchange {n} (building and the associated organization) | :: بورصة {f} /būrṣa/, سوق الأوراق المالية {m} {f} /sūq al-ʾawrāq al-maliyya/ |
| stockholder {n} (one who owns stock) SEE: shareholder | :: |
| Stockholm {prop} (capital of Sweden) | :: ستوكهولم {f} /stōkhōlm/ |
| stocking {n} (garment (for translations of "sock", see sock)) | :: جورب {m} /jawrab/ (pl: جوارب {m-p} /jawārib/) |
| stock market {n} (market for the trading of company stock) | :: سوق الأوراق المالية {m} {f} /sūq al-ʾawrāq al-māliyya/, بورصة {f} /būrṣa/ |
| stoic {n} (proponent of a school of thought) | :: رواقي /riwāqiyy/ |
| stoic {adj} (of or relating to the Stoics) | :: رواقي /riwāqiyy/ |
| stoicism {n} (school of philosophy) | :: رواقية {f} /riwāqiyya/ |
| stoker {n} (poker) SEE: poker | :: |
| stolen {adj} (that has been stolen) | :: مسروق /masrūq/ |
| stomach {n} (digestive organ) | :: معدة {f} /maʿida/, معدة {f} /miʿda/ |
| stomach {n} (belly) | :: معدة {f} /maʿida/, معدة {f} /miʿda/, بطن {m} /baṭn/ |
| stomach {n} (appetite) SEE: appetite | :: |
| stomach {n} (figuratively: desire, appetite) SEE: appetite | :: |
| stomach {n} (pride, haughtiness) SEE: haughtiness | :: |
| stomach acid {n} (gastric acid) SEE: gastric acid | :: |
| stompie {n} (cigarette butt) SEE: butt | :: |
| stone {n} (substance) | :: حجر {m} /ḥajar/ |
| stone {n} (small piece of stone) | :: حجر {m} /ḥajar/, حصى {m} /ḥaṣā/ |
| stone {n} (centre of some fruits) | :: نواة {f} /nawāh/ |
| stone {v} (To pelt with stones) | :: رجم /rajama/ |
| Stone Age {prop} (prehistoric period) | :: العصر الحجري {m} /al-ʿaṣr al-ḥajariyy/ |
| stonecrop {n} (Sedum) | :: حي العالم {m} /ḥayy al-ʿālam/ |
| stoned {adj} (drunk) SEE: drunk | :: |
| stone fruit {n} (fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit) | :: حسلة /hasala/ |
| Stonehenge {prop} (ancient group of standing stones in England) | :: ستونهنج {m} /stūnhinj/ |
| stoner {n} (a habitual user of cannabis) | :: حشاش {m} /ḥaššāš/ |
| stoning {n} (lapidation) SEE: lapidation | :: |
| stony {adj} (broke) SEE: broke | :: |
| stool {n} (toilet) SEE: toilet | :: |
| stool {n} (chamber pot) SEE: chamber pot | :: |
| stop {v} (to cease moving) | :: وقف /waqafa/ |
| stop {v} (to not continue) | :: توقف /tawaqqafa/ |
| stop {v} (to cause to cease moving) | :: أوقف /ʾawqafa/, وقف /waqafa/ |
| stop {v} (to cause to come to an end) | :: أوقف /ʾawqafa/, وقف /waqafa/ |
| stop {n} (place to get on and off mass transport) | :: موقف {m} /mawqif/ |
| stop {n} (interruption of travel) | :: وقفة {f} /waqfa/ |
| stop {n} (consonant sound) SEE: plosive | :: |
| stopcock {n} (valve, tap or faucet) | :: محبس {m} /miḥbas/ |
| stoplight {n} ((US) a traffic control signal) SEE: traffic light | :: |
| store {n} (in computing) SEE: memory | :: |
| store {n} (shop) SEE: shop | :: |
| store {v} (keep (something) while not in use) | :: خزن /ḵazana/ |
| storey {n} (floor, level) | :: طابق {m} /ṭābiq/, دور {m} /dawr/, طبقة {f} /ṭabaqa/ |
| stork {n} (large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae) | :: لقلق {m} /laqlaq/ |
| storm {n} (disturbed state of the atmosphere) | :: عاصفة {f} /ʿāṣifa/, طوفان {m} /ṭūfān/ |
| storm {n} | :: إعصار {m} /ʾiʿṣār/ |
| story {n} (lie) SEE: lie | :: |
| story {n} (account of events) | :: قصة {f} /qiṣṣa/, حكاية {f} /ḥikāya/ |
| story {n} (storey) SEE: storey | :: |
| stout {adj} (obstinate) SEE: obstinate | :: |
| stoutness {n} (a state or quality of being stout) | :: سمن {f} /siman/ |
| stove {n} (heater) | :: موقد {m} /mawqid/, مدفأة {f} /midfaʾa/, مدفأ {m} /midfaʾ/ |
| stove {n} (device for heating food) | :: موقد {m} /mawqid/ |
| Strabo {prop} (historian and philosopher) | :: سترابو |
| straddle {v} (to sit or stand with a leg on each side of something) | :: امتطى |
| Stradivarius {n} (stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family) | :: ستراديفاريوس {m} /satrādīfāriyūs/ |
| straight {adj} (not crooked or bent) | :: مستقيم /mustaqīm/ |
| straight {adj} | :: مستقيم /mustaqīm/ |
| straight angle {n} (angle equal to 180°) | :: زاوية مستقيمة {f} /zāwiya(t) mustaqīma/ |
| straight away {adv} (very soon; immediately) SEE: right away | :: |
| straightedge {n} (tool used to draw, cut or check the straightness of straight lines) | :: ميزان زئبقي {m} /mīzān ziʾbaqiyy/ |
| straightforward {adj} (not deviating; honest; frank) | :: صريح /ṣarīḥ/, مستقيم /mustaqīm/ |
| strait {n} (narrow channel of water) | :: مضيق {m} /maḍīq/, مختنق {m} /muḵtanaq/ |
| Strait of Hormuz {prop} (strait) | :: مضيق هرمز /maḍīq hurmuz/ |
| Strait of Messina {prop} (narrow section of water between Sicily and mainland Italy) | :: مضيق مسينة {m} /maḍiyq missīna/ |
| Strait of Sicily {prop} (strait between Sicily and Tunisia) | :: مضيق صقلية {m} /maḍiyq ṣiqilliyya/, مضيق الوطن القبلي {m} /maḍiyq al-waṭan al-qiblī/, مضيق قليبية {m} /maḍiyq qilībiya/ |
| strange {adj} (not normal) | :: غريب /ḡarīb/, عجيب /ʿajīb/ |
| strange {adj} (not yet part of one’s experience) | :: أجنبي /ʾajnabiyy/ |
| strangeness {n} ((uncountable) quality of being strange) | :: غرابة {f} /ḡarāba/ |
| strange quark {n} (strange quark) | :: كوارك غريب {m} /kuwark ḡarīb/ |
| stranger {n} (person whom one does not know) | :: غريب {m} /ḡarīb/ |
| stranger {n} (outsider or foreigner, see also: foreigner) | :: أجنبي {m} /ʾajnabiyy/ |
| strangle {v} (to kill someone by strangulation) | :: خنق /ḵanaqa/ |
| Strasbourg {prop} (city in France) | :: ستراسبورغ {m} /strāsbūrḡ/ |
| strategic {adj} (of or pertaining to strategy) | :: إستراتيجي /ʾistirātījiyy/ |
| strategical {adj} (strategic) SEE: strategic | :: |
| Strategic Defense Initiative {prop} (Star Wars) SEE: Star Wars | :: |
| strategy {n} (science and art of military command) | :: إستراتيجية {f} /ʾistrātījiyya/ |
| strategy {n} (plan of action) | :: إستراتيجية {f} /ʾistrātījiyya/ |
| strategy {n} (techniques in politics or business) | :: إستراتيجية {f} /ʾistrātījiyya/ |
| stratosphere {n} (region of the uppermost atmosphere) | :: ستراتوسفير {m} /strātūsfīr/ |
| Strauss {prop} (surname) | :: شتراوس {m} {f} /štrāws/ |
| straw {n} (dried stalks considered collectively) | :: قش {m} /qašš/ |
| straw {n} (drinking straw) SEE: drinking straw | :: |
| strawberry {n} (fruit) | :: فراولة {f} /farāwila/, فريز {m} /firīz/, توت الأرض {m} /tūt al-ʾarḍ/ |
| strawberry {n} | :: فراولة {f} /farāwla/ , شليك /šulīk/ |
| strawberry tree {n} (the European plant Arbutus unedo) | :: قطلب {m} /qaṭlab/, جناء أحمر {m} /janāʾ ʾaḥmar/ |
| stray {v} (to wander from a direct course) | :: ضل /ḍalla/ |
| strayed {adj} (having lost one's way) SEE: stray | :: |
| stream {n} (small river) | :: جدول {m} /jadwal/ |
| street {n} (paved part of road in a village or a town) | :: شارع {m} /šāriʿ/ |
| streetcar {n} (tram) SEE: tram | :: |
| streetlight {n} (lamps set along a street) | :: مصباح الشارع {m} /miṣbāḥ aš-šāriʿ/ |
| strength {n} (quality of being strong) | :: قوة {f} /quwwa/ |
| stress {n} (on a syllable) SEE: accent | :: |
| stress {n} ((physics) internal force across a boundary per area ) | :: إجهاد {m} /ʾijhād/ |
| stress {n} (when speaking) | :: نبر {m} /nabr/ |
| stressed {adj} (stressed-out) | :: مرهق /murhaq/ |
| stretch {v} (lengthen by pulling) | :: تمدد /tamaddada/ |
| stretcher {n} (simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person) | :: نقالة {f} /naqqāla/ |
| strict {adj} (governed or governing by exact rules) | :: صارم /ṣārim/ |
| strict {adj} (severe in discipline) | :: صارم /ṣārim/ |
| strife {n} (violent conflict) | :: فتنة {f} /fitna/ |
| strike {v} (to hit) | :: ضرب /ḍaraba/ |
| strike {n} (work stoppage) | :: إضراب {m} /ʾiḍrāb/ |
| strike out {v} (to draw a line through a text) SEE: cross out | :: |
| strike through {v} (to obliterate by drawing a line over) SEE: cross out | :: |
| striking {adj} (of that which makes a strong impression) | :: لافت للنظر {m}, لافتة للنظر {m-p} {f} {f-p} |
| string {n} (long, thin structure made from twisted threads) | :: وتر {m} /watar/ |
| string {n} (computing: sequence of characters) | :: سلسلة {f} /silsila/ |
| string {n} (string of a musical instrument) | :: وتر {m} /watar/ |
| string theory {n} (candidate unified theory of all physical forces and particles) | :: نظرية الأوتار {f} /naẓariyya(t) al-ʾawtār/ |
| striptease {n} (arousing act) | :: رقص تعري {m} /raqṣ taʿariyy/, استربتيز {m} /istribtīz/ |
| strive {v} (to try to achieve) | :: كافح /kāfaḥa/, اجتهد /ijtahada/, ناضل /nāḍala/, حرص /ḥaraṣa/, جد /jadda/, جاهد /jāhada/ |
| strive {v} (to struggle in opposition) | :: ≈ against جاهد /jāhada/ |
| stroboscope {n} (instrument for studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals) | :: مصطربة {f} /muṣṭariba/ |
| stroke {n} (blow) | :: ضربة {f} /ḍarba/ |
| stroke {n} (line drawn with a writing implement) | :: خط {m} /ḵaṭṭ/ |
| stroke {n} (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted) | :: سكتة دماغية {f} |
| stroke {n} (- slash) SEE: slash | :: |
| stroke {n} (appetite) SEE: appetite | :: |
| stroll {n} (wandering on foot) | :: تجول {m} /tajawwul/, تنزه {m} /tanazzuh/ |
| stroll {v} (wander on foot) | :: تجول /tajawwala/, تنزه /tanazzaha/ |
| stroller {n} (seat on wheels used to transport babies) | :: عربة أطفال {f} /ʿarabatu ʾaṭfāl/ |
| stromatolite {n} (rock-like structure built by microorganisms) | :: ستروماتوليت {f} /strūmātūlīt/ |
| strong {adj} (capable of producing great physical force) | :: قوي /qawiyy/ |
| strong {adj} (capable of withstanding great physical force) | :: منيع /manīʿ/ |
| strong {adj} (fast moving water) | :: شديد /šadiyd/ |
| strong {adj} (highly stimulating to the senses) | :: شديد /šadiyd/, قوي /qawyy/ |
| strong {adj} (having an offensive or intense odor or flavor) | :: شديد /šadiyd/ |
| strong {adj} (having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient) | :: حاد /ḥādd/, ثقيل /ṯaqiyl/ |
| strong {adj} (having a high alcoholic content) | :: ثقيل /ṯaqiyl/ |
| strong {adj} (grammar: irregular) | :: شاذ /šāḏḏ/, غير نظامي /ḡayr niẓāmiyy/ |
| strong {adv} (in a strong manner) | :: بقوة /biquwwa/ |
| strongbox {n} (sturdy box with a lock) SEE: safe | :: |
| stronghold {n} (place built to withstand attack) | :: حصن /ḥiṣn/ |
| strontium {n} (chemical element) | :: استرونتيوم {m} /istirūntiyūm/ |
| structure {n} (cohesive whole built up of distinct parts) | :: هيكل {m} /haykal/ |
| structure {n} | :: مبنى/شكل (mabna / shakel) |
| struggle {n} (strife, effort) | :: كفاح /kifāḥ/, نضال {m} /niḍāl/, جهاد {m} /jihād/ |
| struggle {v} (to strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight) | :: كافح, جاهد /jāhada/, ناضل /nāḍala/ |
| stub {n} ((wikis) page providing minimal information) | :: بذرة {f} |
| stubble {n} (short, coarse hair) | :: شعيرات اللحية {f-p} /šuʿayrāt al-liḥya/ |
| stubble {n} (short stalks left in a field after harvest) | :: قش {m} /qašš/ |
| stubborn {adj} (refusing to move or change one's opinion) | :: عنيد /ʿanīd/ |
| student {n} (person who studies a subject) | :: طالب {m} /ṭālib/, طالبة {f} /ṭāliba/, تلميذ {m} /tilmīḏ/, تلميذة {f} /tilmīḏa/ |
| student {n} (person enrolled at a school, university or other education institution) | :: طالب {m} /ṭālib/, طالبة {f} /ṭāliba/, تلميذ {m} /tilmīḏ/, تلميذة {f} /tilmīḏa/ |
| student {n} (person enrolled at a university) | :: طالب {m} /ṭālib/, طالبة {f} /ṭāliba/ |
| student {n} (schoolchild, pupil, person attending school) SEE: schoolchild | :: |
| studio {n} (artist’s or photographer’s workshop) | :: ستوديو {m} /stūdiyū/ |
| study {v} (to take a course) | :: درس /darasa/ |
| study {v} (to acquire knowledge) | :: درس /darasa/, تعلم /taʿallama/ |
| study {v} | :: درس /darasa/ |
| study {n} (mental effort to acquire knowledge) | :: تعلم {m} /taʿallum/, دراسة {f} /dirāsa/ |
| study {n} (act of studying or examining) SEE: examination | :: |
| stuff {n} | :: شيء |
| stumble {n} (a fall or trip) | :: عثرة {f} /ʿaṯra/ |
| stumble {v} (to trip or fall) | :: عثر /ʿaṯara/ |
| stumble upon {v} (to come across by accident; to discover by accident) | :: عثر /ʿaṯara/ |
| stupa {n} (Buddhist monument) | :: ستوبا {m} /stūbā/ |
| stupid {adj} (lacking in intelligence) | :: غبي /ḡabiyy/ |
| stupidity {n} (property of being stupid) | :: غباء {m} /ḡabāʾ/, غباوة {f} /ḡabāwa/, بلاهة {f} /balāha/ |
| sturgeon {n} (fish of family Acipenseridae) | :: حفش {m} /ḥafš/ |
| stutter {v} (to speak with spasmodic repetition) SEE: stammer | :: |
| Stuttgart {prop} (a city in Germany) | :: شتوتغارت {m} /štutḡart/ |
| St. Vitus' dance {n} (Sydenham's chorea) | :: داء الرقص {m} /dāʾ ar-raqṣ/ |
| sty {n} (ladder) SEE: ladder | :: |
| sty {v} (to rise up) SEE: ascend | :: |
| style {n} (gnomon or pin of a sundial) SEE: gnomon | :: |
| style {n} (manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art) | :: أسلوب {m} /ʾuslūb/ |
| stylist {n} (hairdresser) SEE: hairdresser | :: |
| stylist {n} (designer) SEE: designer | :: |
| Subaru {prop} (automobile manufacturer) | :: سوبارو {m} /subārū/ |
| subcontinent {n} (large landmass) | :: شبه قارة {f} /šibh qāra/ |
| subject {n} (in grammar) | :: فاعل {m} /fāʿil/, مبتدأ {m} /mubtadaʾ/ |
| subject {n} (main topic) | :: موضوع {m} /mawḍūʿ/ |
| subject {n} (particular area of study) | :: دورة /dawra/, مادة {f} /mādda/ |
| subject {n} (citizen in a monarchy) | :: رعية /raʿiyya/ |
| subject matter {n} (object of thought) | :: الموضوع، مادة البحث |
| subjunctive {n} (subjunctive mood) SEE: subjunctive mood | :: |
| subjunctive mode {n} (subjunctive mood) SEE: subjunctive mood | :: |
| subjunctive mood {n} (subjunctive mood) | :: حالة النصب {f} /ḥālatu n-naṣbi/ |
| submarine {n} (undersea boat) | :: غواصة {f} /ḡawwāṣa/ |
| submissive {adj} (meekly obedient or passive) | :: خاضع /ḵāḍiʿ/ |
| submit {v} | :: قدم /qaddama/ |
| subscribe {v} (to sign up to receive a publication) | :: اشترك /ištaraka/ |
| Subscriber Identity Module {n} (component on a SIM card that stores information to identify a mobile phone user) | :: وحدة تعريف المشترك {f} |
| subsequent {adj} | :: لاحق (lāħaq) |
| subsidy {n} (financial support) | :: إعانة مالية {f} /ʾiʿāna(t) māliyya/ |
| subsistent {adj} (inherent) SEE: inherent | :: |
| subspecies {n} (rank in the classification of organisms) | :: نويع /nuwayʿ/ |
| substance {n} (physical matter; material, see also: matter) | :: مادة {f} /mādda/ |
| substance {n} | :: مادة {f} /mádda/ |
| substance {n} (theology: hypostasis) SEE: hypostasis | :: |
| substantial {adj} (not imaginary; real; veritable) | :: حقيقي /ḥaqīqiyy/ |
| substantial {adj} | :: حقيقي (ħaqíeqi) |
| substantive {n} (noun) SEE: noun | :: |
| substitute {v} (to use in place of something else) | :: استبدل /istabdala/ |
| substitute {v} (to substitute) SEE: replace | :: |
| substitution {n} (substitute) SEE: substitute | :: |
| subtitle {n} (heading below a title) | :: عنوان فرعي {m} /ʿunwān farʿiyy/ (plural: عناوين فرعية {m-p} /ʿanāwīn farʿiyya/) |
| subtitle {n} (textual versions of the dialog in films) | :: ترجمة {f} /tarjama/ |
| subtraction {n} (process) | :: طرح {m} /ṭarḥ/ |
| suburb {n} (area on the periphery of a city or large town) | :: ضاحية {f} /ḍāḥiya/ |
| suburb {n} (Australian, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation) | :: حي {m} /ḥayy/ |
| subvention {n} (subsidy) SEE: subsidy | :: |
| subway {n} (underground railway) | :: مترو {m} /mitrū/, مترو {m} /metro/ |
| succeed {v} (To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful) | :: نجح /najaḥa/ |
| success {n} (achievement of one's aim or goal) | :: نجاح {m} /najāḥ/ |
| successful {adj} (resulting in success) | :: ناجح /nājiḥ/, فائز /fāʾiz/, موفق /muwaffaq/ |
| successfully {adv} (in a successful manner) | :: بنجاح /binajāḥin/ |
| successive {adj} (in a series) | :: متتابع /mutatābiʿ/, متتال /mutatālin/, متوال /mutawālin/ |
| such {determiner} (used to make a comparison with something implied by context) | :: مثل /miṯl/, هكذا /hakaḏā/ |
| such-and-such {n} (generic placeholder) | :: كذا وكذا /kaḏā wa-kaḏā/, كذا /kaḏā/ |
| such as {prep} (for example) SEE: for example | :: |
| such as {prep} (like) | :: هكذا /hakaḏā/ |
| such is life {phrase} (used to express the acceptance of misfortune) | :: هذه هي الحياة /hāḏihi hiya l-ḥayāh/ |
| suck {n} (instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling) | :: مصة {f} /maṣṣa/ |
| suck {v} (to use the mouth to pull in (liquid etc)) | :: مص /maṣṣa/ |
| suck {n} (sycophant) SEE: sycophant | :: |
| sucker {n} (someone or something that sucks) | :: ماص /māṣṣ/ |
| sucker {n} (one who is easily fooled) | :: مغفل {m} /muḡaffal/ |
| sucker {n} (lollipop) SEE: lollipop | :: |
| suckling pig {n} | :: خنزير الرضاعة {m} /ḵinzīr alradaea/ |
| sucrose {n} (a disaccharide) | :: سكروز /sakruz/ |
| Sudan {prop} (Republic of Sudan) | :: السودان {m} /as-sūdān/ |
| Sudanese {adj} (Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Sudan, the Sudanese people or the Sudanese language) | :: سوداني /sūdāniyy/ |
| Sudanese {n} (person from Sudan or of Sudanese descent) | :: سوداني {m} /sūdāniyy/, سودانية {f} /sūdāniyya/ |
| Sudanese Arabic {prop} (Sudanese Arabic) | :: لهجة سودانية /lahja(t) sūdāniyya/ |
| sudden {n} (surprise) SEE: surprise | :: |
| sudden death {n} (instantaneous death) | :: موت الفجأة /mawt al-fajʾah/ |
| suddenly {adv} (happening quickly and with little or no warning) | :: فجأة /fajʾatan/ |
| Sudetenland {prop} (region in Czechia) | :: السوديت {?} /as-sudet/ |
| sudoku {n} (a puzzle using numbers) | :: سودوكو {m} /sūdūkū/ |
| suds {n} (lather, foam) | :: رغوة /raḡwa/ |
| Suez {prop} (Suez, Egypt) | :: السويس {m} /as-suways/ |
| Suez Canal {prop} (canal) | :: قناة السويس {f} /qanāt as-suways/ |
| suffer {v} (undergo hardship) | :: تألم /taʾallama/, عانى /ʿānā/ |
| suffer {v} (become worse) | :: عانى /ʿānā/ |
| suffering {n} (condition) | :: معاناة {f} /muʿānāh/ |
| suffice {v} (be enough, sufficient, adequate) | :: كفى /kafā/ |
| sufficient {adj} (adequate to wants) | :: كاف /kāfin/ |
| suffix {n} (morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning) | :: لاحقة {f} /lāḥiqa/ |
| Sufi {n} (a Sufi muslim) | :: صوفي /ṣūfiyy/ |
| Sufism {n} (Islamic mysticism) | :: تصوف {m} /taṣawwuf/ |
| sugar {n} (sucrose from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink) | :: سكر {m} /sukkar/ |
| sugar {n} | :: سكر {m} /sukkar/ |
| sugar apple {n} (sweetsop) | :: قشطة صدفية /qišṭa(t) ṣadafiyya/ |
| sugar beet {n} (type of beet) | :: شمندر السكر {m} /šamandar as-sukkar/ |
| sugar bowl {n} (small receptacle for serving sugar on a table) | :: سكرية |
| sugar cane {n} (species of grass whose sap is a source of sugar) | :: قصب السكر {m} /qaṣab as-sukkar/ |
| Sugarloaf Mountain {prop} (rocky peak in Rio de Janeiro) | :: بائو دي أكوكار {m} /bāʾū dī ʾakūkār/ |
| suggest {v} (to ask for without demanding) | :: اقترح /iqtaraḥa/ |
| suggest {v} (to recommend) | :: اقترح /iqtaraḥa/ |
| suggestion {n} (something suggested) | :: اقتراح {m} /iqtirāḥ/, مقترح {m} /muqtaraḥ/ |
| suicidal {adj} (pertaining to suicide) | :: انتحاري /intiḥāriyy/ |
| suicide {n} (instance of killing oneself) | :: انتحار {m} /intiḥār/ |
| suicide {adj} (to kill oneself intentionally) SEE: commit suicide | :: |
| suicide bomber {n} (one who carries explosives) | :: مهاجم انتحاري {m} /muhājim intiḥāriyy/, زارع الألغام {m} /zāriʿ al-ʾalḡām/ |
| suicide bombing {n} (attack) | :: عملية تفجيرية إنتحارية /ʿamaliyya(t) tafjīriyya(t) ʾintiḥāriyya/, عملية تفجيرية /ʿamaliyya(t) tafjīriyya/ |
| Suifenhe {prop} (city in China) | :: سويفنخه {m} /suyfinḵih/ |
| suit {n} (set of clothes) | :: بذلة {f} /baḏla/, بدلة {f} /badla/ |
| suit {n} (card games: set of cards distinguished by color and emblems) | :: رمز {m} /ramz/ |
| suit {v} (to be appropriate or apt for) | :: ناسب /nāsaba/ |
| suit {n} (attempt to gain an end by legal process) SEE: lawsuit | :: |
| suitcase {n} (large piece of luggage) | :: حقيبة السفر {f} /ḥaqībatu s-safar/, شنطة {f} /šanṭa/ |
| sujuk {n} (type of sausage) | :: سجق {m} /sujuq/ |
| Sukhumi {prop} (capital city) | :: سخومي {m} /suḵūmī/ |
| sukiyaki {n} (a Japanese dish) | :: سوكيياكي {m} /sukiyākī/ |
| Sukkot {prop} (Jewish festival) | :: العرش /al-ʿarš/ |
| sukun {n} (Diacritic used to mark the absence of a vowel) | :: سكون {m} /sukūn/ |
| Sulawesi {prop} (island) | :: سولاوسي {m} /sulawasī/ |
| sulcus {n} (anatomy: groove on the surface of the brain) | :: ثلم {m} /ṯalm/ |
| sulfur {n} (element) | :: كبريت {m} /kibrīt/ |
| sulfur mustard {n} (mustard gas) SEE: mustard gas | :: |
| sultan {n} (office) | :: سلطان {m} /sulṭān/ |
| sultan {n} (ruler) | :: سلطان {m} /sulṭān/ |
| sultanate {n} (state ruled by a sultan) | :: سلطنة /salṭana/ |
| Sultanate of Oman {prop} (official name of Oman) | :: سلطنة عمان /salṭanat ʿumān/ |
| sultry {adj} (very hot and dry) | :: خمسيني {m} /ḵamsīniyy/, خمسينية {f} /ḵamsīniyya/ |
| sum {n} (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation) | :: مجموع {m} /majmūʿ/ |
| sum {n} (quantity of money) | :: مبلغ {m} /mablaḡ/ |
| sum {v} (give a summary of) SEE: summarize | :: |
| sum {n} (summary) SEE: summary | :: |
| sum {n} (summit) SEE: summit | :: |
| sumac {n} (shrub or small tree of the genus Rhus, etc.) | :: سماق /summāq/ |
| sumac {n} (sour spice) | :: سماق /summāq/ |
| Sumatra {prop} (the largest island of Indonesia) | :: سومطرة {f} /sūmaṭra/ |
| Sumerian {n} (person) | :: سومري /sūmriyy/ |
| summarisation {n} (the act of summarizing) | :: تلخيص /talḵīṣ/ |
| summarize {v} (to prepare a summary) | :: لخص /laḵḵaṣa/, اختصر /iḵtaṣara/ |
| summary {n} (condensed presentation) | :: خلاصة {f} /ḵulāṣa/, ملخص {m} /mulaḵḵaṣ/ |
| summer {n} (hottest season) | :: صيف {m} /ṣayf/ |
| summer camp {n} (institution devoted to housing and entertaining children) | :: مخيم صيفي {m} /muḵayyim ṣayfiyy/ |
| summery {adj} (relating to the summer) | :: صيفي /ṣayfiyy/ |
| summit {n} (peak, top of mountain) | :: قمة {f} /qimma/ |
| summit {n} (gathering of leaders) | :: إجتماع قمة {m} /ʾijtimāʿ qimma/ |
| summon {v} | :: دعى /daʿā/ |
| sumo {n} (form of wrestling) | :: سومو {m} /sūmū/ |
| sum up {v} (sum up) SEE: summarize | :: |
| sun {prop} (the star around which the Earth revolves, see also: Sun) | :: شمس {f} /šams/ |
| sun {n} (a star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system) | :: شمس {f} /šams/ |
| sun {n} | :: شمس {f} /šams/ |
| Sun {prop} (star) | :: الشمس {f} /aš-šams/ , شمس {f} /šams/ |
| Sun {prop} (91st sura of the Qur'an) | :: سورة الشمس /sūratu š-šamsi/ |
| Sun {prop} (newspaper) | :: ذا صن {f} /ḏā ṣan/ |
| sunbath {n} (period of tanning) | :: حمام شمس {m} /ḥammām šams/, حمام شمسي {m} /ḥammām šamsiyy/ |
| sunburn {n} (burn) | :: سفعة الشمس {f} /safʿat aš-šams/ |
| Sunday {n} (day of the week) | :: الأحد {m} /al-ʾaḥad/, يوم الأحد {m} /yawm al-ʾaḥad/ |
| sundial {n} (device noting the time of day by the position of a shadow) | :: مزولة /mizwala/ |
| sundown {n} (sunset) SEE: sunset | :: |
| sunflower {n} (flower) | :: زهرة الشمس {f} /zahrat aš-šams/, دوار الشمس {m} /dawwār aš-šams/ |
| sunglasses {n} (tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from the sun) | :: نظارات شمسية {f-p} /naẓẓārāt šamsiyya/ |
| sun letter {n} (sun letter) | :: حرف شمسي {m} /ḥarf šamsiyy/ (plural: حروف شمسية {m-p} /ḥurūf šamsiyya/) |
| sunnah {n} (custom, system, way of life) | :: سنة {f} /sunna/ |
| Sunni {n} (follower of the Sunni branch of Islam) | :: سني {m} /sunniyy/ |
| Sunni {n} (Sunni Islam, a branch of Islam) | :: سنة {f} /sunna/ |
| Sunnite {n} (Sunni) SEE: Sunni | :: |
| sunny {adj} (weather, day) | :: مشمس /mušmis/ |
| sunrise {n} (time of day) | :: شروق /šurūq/, شروق الشمس /šurūq aš-šams/ |
| sunset {n} (time of day) | :: مغرب {m} /maḡrib/, غروب {m} /ḡurūb/ |
| sunset {n} (changes in color of sky at sunset) | :: غروب الشمس {m} /ḡurūb aš-šams/, غروب الشمس {m} /ḡurūb aš-šams/ |
| sunshade {n} (something to keep the sun off) | :: مظلة {f} /maẓalla/ |
| sunstroke {n} (heatstroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays) | :: ضربة شمس {f} /ḍarbat šams/ |
| sunup {n} (time of day) SEE: sunrise | :: |
| sunup {n} (change in color of sky) SEE: sunrise | :: |
| sun worshipper {n} (worshipper of the Sun) | :: عابد شمس {m} /ʿābidu šamsin/; عابد للشمس {m} /ʿābidun li-š-šamsi/ |
| supercilium {n} (arch of hair) SEE: eyebrow | :: |
| superego {n} (part of the mind) | :: الأنا العليا {f} /al-ʾanā l-ʿulyā/, الأنا الأعلى {m} /al-ʾanā l-ʾaʿlā/ |
| superficial {adj} (shallow, lacking substance) | :: سطحي /saṭḥiyy/ |
| superficiality {n} (property of being superficial) | :: سطحية {m} /saṭḥiyya/ |
| superior {adj} (higher in rank or quality) | :: أجدر /ʾajdar/ |
| superior {adj} (located above) | :: يعلو |
| superlative {n} (form of adjective expressing "most") | :: درجة فائقة {f} /daraja fāʾiqa/ |
| superlative degree {n} ((grammar)) | :: درجة فائقة {f} /daraja fāʾiqa/ |
| Superman {prop} (a fictional character with superhuman powers) | :: سوبرمان {m} /sūbarmān/ |
| supermarket {n} (store) | :: سوبرماركت {m} /subarmārkit/, سوبر ماركت {m} /subar mārkit/ |
| supernatural {adj} (above nature) | :: خارق /ḵāriq/ |
| superpower {n} (sovereign state) | :: قوى عظمى {f} /quwā ʿuẓmā/ |
| superstition {n} (a belief that events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way) | :: خرافة {f} /ḵurāfa/ |
| superstitious {adj} (susceptible to superstitions) | :: خرافي /ḵurāfiyy/ |
| supper {n} (food before going to bed) | :: عشاء {f} /ʿašāʾ/ |
| supper {n} (dinner at night) | :: عشاء {f} /ʿašāʾ/ |
| supplant {v} | :: يحل محل |
| supplement {n} (extension to a document or publication) | :: ملحق |
| supplementary {adj} (additional) | :: إضافي /ʾiḍāfiyy/ |
| supply {v} | :: زود (záwwada) |
| supply and demand {n} (economic model of pricing) | :: العرض والطلب {m} /al-ʿarḍ wa-l-ṭalab/ |
| support {v} (to keep from falling) | :: دعم /daʿama/, دعم /daʿʿama/ |
| support {v} (to back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid) | :: أيد /ʾayyada/, دعم /daʿama/ |
| support {n} (financial or other help) | :: تأييد {m} /taʾyīd/, دعم {m} /daʿm/ |
| support {n} | :: تأييد {m} /taʾyīd/ |
| suppose {v} (conclude; believe) | :: افترض /iftaraḍa/ |
| suppose {v} (theorize; hypothesize) | :: افترض /iftaraḍa/ |
| supposition {n} (assumption) | :: افتراض {m} /iftirāḍ/, فرضية {f} /farḍiyya/ |
| suppository {n} (medicine in the form of a small plug that is inserted into a bodily cavity) | :: لبوس {m} /labūs/ |
| suppress {v} (to hold in place, to keep low) | :: قمع /qamaʿa/ |
| suppurate {v} (form or discharge pus) | :: تقيح /taqayyaḥa/ |
| Supreme Leader {n} (head of state of Iran) | :: قائد الثورة الإسلامية {m} /qāʾid aṯ-ṯawra l-ʾislāmiyya/ |
| sura {n} (chapter of the Qur'an) | :: سورة {f} /sūra/ |
| Surabaya {prop} (city in Indonesia) | :: سورابايا {f} /sūrābāyā/ |
| sure {adj} (certain, reliable) | :: أكيد /ʾakīd/ |
| sure {adj} (certain in one's knowledge or belief) | :: متأكد /mutaʾakkid/ |
| sure {interj} (of course) | :: طبعا /ṭabʿan/, أكيد /ʾakīd/ |
| surely {adv} (certainly, undoubtedly) | :: بالتأكيد /bi-t-taʾkīd/ |
| surely {adv} | :: بالتأكيد /bi-t-taʾkīd/ |
| surety {n} (certainty) SEE: certainty | :: |
| suretyship {n} (agreement) | :: ضمان {m} /ḍamān/ |
| surface {n} (up-side of a flat object) | :: سطح {m} /saṭḥ/ |
| surfactant {n} (surface active agent) | :: عامل سطحي /ʿāmil saṭḥiyy/ |
| surfing {n} (sport) | :: ركوب أمواج {m} /rakūb ʾamwāj/ |
| surf riding {n} (surfing) SEE: surfing | :: |
| surgeon {n} (doctor who performs surgery) | :: جراح {m} /jarrāḥ/ |
| surgery {n} (procedure involving major incisions) | :: عملية جراحية {f} /ʿamaliyya jirāḥiyya/, جراحة {f} /jirāḥa/ |
| surgery {n} (medical specialty) | :: جراحة {f} /jirāḥa/ |
| surgical mask {n} (mask worn to catch bacteria) | :: كمام /kammām/, قناع جراحي {m} /qināʿun jirāḥiyyun/, أقنعة جراحية {m-p} /ʾaqniʿatun jirāḥiyyatun/ |
| Suriname {prop} (country) | :: سورينام {f} /sūrīnām/ |
| surmount {v} (to get over; to overcome) | :: هزم /hazama/, تغلب /taḡallaba/, قهر /qahar/ |
| surname {n} (name that indicates family) | :: لقب {m} /laqab/, كنية {f} /kunya/, اسم العائلة {m} /ism al-ʿāʾila/ |
| surpass {v} (to exceed) | :: فاق /fāqa/ |
| surprise {n} (something not expected) | :: مفاجأة {f} /mufājaʾa/, دهشة {f} /dahša/ |
| surprise {n} (feeling that something unexpected has happened) | :: دهشة {f} /dahša/ |
| surprise {v} (cause (someone) to feel surprise) | :: باغت /bāḡata/, فاجأ /fājaʾa/ (present: يفاجئ (yufājiʿ)), دهش /dahiša/ |
| surprised {adj} (caused to feel surprise) | :: مندهش /mundahiš/ |
| surrender {v} (intransitive or reflexive: to give oneself up into the power of another) | :: استسلم /istaslama/ |
| surrender {n} (an act of surrendering) | :: استسلام {m} /istaslām/ |
| surrogate mother {n} (woman who gives birth to a child not her own) | :: أم بديلة {f} /ʾumm badīla/ |
| surround {v} (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) | :: طوق /ṭawwaqa/, لف /laffa/, أحاط /ʾaḥāṭa/ |
| Susan {prop} (female given name) | :: سوزان {f} /swzān/ |
| Susanna {prop} (female given name) SEE: Susan | :: |
| Susanoo {prop} (Japanese storm god) | :: سوسانو {m} /sūsānū/ |
| susceptible {adj} (likely to be affected by) | :: عرضه |
| sushi {n} (Japanese dish) | :: سوشي {m} /sūšī/ |
| suspect {v} (believe to be guilty) | :: ...اشتبه ب /...ištabaha bi/ |
| suspect {n} (person suspected of something) | :: مشبوه {m} /mašbūh/, مشبوهة {f} /mašbūha/ |
| suspicion {n} (act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong) | :: اتهام {m} /ittihām/, شك {m} /šakk/ |
| suspicion {n} (condition of being suspected) | :: اتهام {m} /ittihām/ |
| suspicion {n} | :: اشتباه /ištibāh/ |
| sustain {v} (to maintain something) | :: أبقى /ʾabqā/ |
| sustain {v} (to provide for or nourish something) | :: عال /ʿāla/, يعول /yaʿūlu/ |
| Sutekh {prop} (Egyptian God) SEE: Set | :: |
| Suva {prop} (capital of Fiji) | :: سوفا {f} /sūfā/ |
| Suzhou {prop} (Chinese city in Jiangsu) | :: سوجو {m} /sūjū/ |
| Suzuki {prop} (a Japanese surname) | :: سوزوكي /sūzūkī/ |
| Svalbard {prop} (islands north east of Greenland) | :: سفالبارد {m} /sfalbard/ |
| svelte {adj} | :: هيفاء,رشيق, ممشوق القامة |
| Swahili {n} (language) | :: السواحلية {f} /as-sawāḥiliyya/ |
| swallow {v} (to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach) | :: جرع /jaraʿa/, بلع /balaʿa/, سرط /saraṭa/, ازدرد /izdarada / |
| swallow {n} (bird) | :: سنونو {m} /sunūnū/ |
| swamp {n} (type of wetland) | :: مستنقع {m} /mustanqaʿ/ |
| swan {n} (waterfowl of the genus Cygnus) | :: تم {m} /tamm/, إوز عراقي {m} /ʾiwazz ʿirāqiyy/ |
| swarf {n} | :: رايش |
| swarthy {adj} (dark) SEE: dark | :: |
| swarthy {adj} (dark-skinned) SEE: dark-skinned | :: |
| swastika {n} (a cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle) | :: صليب معقوف {m} /ṣalīb maʿqūf/ |
| swath {n} (The track cut out by a scythe in mowing) | :: ممر {m} /mamarr/ |
| swathe {n} (swath) SEE: swath | :: |
| Swaziland {prop} (Kingdom of Swaziland, see also: eSwatini) | :: سوازيلاند /suwazilanda/ |
| swear {v} (to take an oath) | :: حلف /ḥalafa/ |
| swear {v} (to curse, to use offensive language) | :: شتم /šatama/, سب /sabba/ |
| swear word {n} (impolite or offensive taboo word) | :: بذاءة {f} /baḏāʾa/ |
| sweat {n} (fluid that exits the body through pores) | :: عرق {m} /ʿaraq/ |
| sweat {v} (to emit sweat) | :: عرق /ʿariqa/ |
| sweater {n} (similar garment worn for warmth) | :: سويتر {m} /swītar/ |
| sweating {n} (bodily process) | :: عرق /ʿaraq/ |
| swede {n} (turnip) SEE: turnip | :: |
| Swede {n} (person from Sweden or of Swedish descent) | :: سويدي /suwīdiyy/ |
| Sweden {prop} (Scandinavian country) | :: السويد {f} /as-suwayd/ |
| Swedish {prop} (language) | :: سويدية {f} /suwēdiyya/ |
| Swedish {adj} (of or pertaining to Sweden) | :: سويدي /suwēdiyy/ |
| Swedish {adj} (of or pertaining to the Swedish language) | :: سويدي /suwaydiyy/ |
| sweep {v} (to clean using a broom or brush) | :: مسح /masaḥa/ |
| sweeper {n} (one who sweeps floors or chimneys) | :: كناس {m} /kannās/ |
| sweet {adj} (having a pleasant taste) | :: حلو {m} /ḥulw/ |
| sweet {adj} | :: حلو /ḥulw/ |
| sweet {n} (food eaten for dessert) SEE: dessert | :: |
| sweet {n} (sweetheart) SEE: sweetheart | :: |
| sweet {n} (basic taste sensation induced by sugar) SEE: sweetness | :: |
| sweet cherry {n} (Prunus avium) SEE: wild cherry | :: |
| sweet clover {n} (Melilotus) | :: حندقوق {m} /ḥandaqūq/ |
| sweet dreams {phrase} (sweet dreams) | :: ليلة سعيدة وأحلام لذيذة /layla saʿīda wa-ʾaḥlām laḏīḏa/ |
| sweetener {n} (food additive) | :: محلي {m} /muḥalliyy/ |
| sweet flag {n} (Acorus calamus) | :: وج {m} /wajj/, ذريرة {f} /ḏarīra/ |
| sweetheart {n} (darling) SEE: darling | :: |
| sweetheart {n} (a person very much liked or loved by someone) | :: حبيب {m} /ḥabīb/, حبيبة {f} /ḥabība/ |
| sweetness {n} (condition of being sweet or sugary) | :: حلاوة {f} /ḥalāwatun/ |
| sweet pepper {n} (fruit) SEE: bell pepper | :: |
| sweet potato {n} (yam) SEE: yam | :: |
| sweet potato {n} (ocarina) SEE: ocarina | :: |
| sweet potato {n} (tuber) | :: بطاطا حلوة {f} /baṭāṭā ḥulwa/, بطاطا {f} /baṭāṭā/, بطاطة {f} /baṭāṭa/ |
| sweets {n} (confectionery, candy) | :: حلويات {f-p} /ḥalwayāt/ |
| sweetshop {n} (shop selling predominantly confectionery) | :: صناعة الحلويات {f} /ṣanāʿatu l-ḥalwayāt/ |
| sweetsop {n} (sugar apple) SEE: sugar apple | :: |
| sweetwater {n} (fresh water) SEE: fresh water | :: |
| swell {v} (intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged) | :: انتفخ /intafaḵa/ |
| swim {v} (move through water) | :: سبح /sabaḥa/ |
| swim {n} (act or instance of swimming) | :: سبحة {f} /sabḥa/, سباحة {f} /sibāḥa/ |
| swim bladder {n} (fish organ) | :: حويصلة هوائية {f} |
| swimmer {n} (one who swims) | :: سباح {m} /sabbāḥ/ |
| swimming {n} (human activity of moving oneself through water) | :: سباحة {f} /sibāḥa/ |
| swimming costume {n} (garment for swimming) SEE: swimsuit | :: |
| swimming pool {n} (pool for swimming) | :: حمام سباحة {m} /ḥammām sibāḥa/, مسبح {m} /masbaḥ/ |
| swimming trunks {n} (a pair of shorts or briefs worn for swimming or bathing) | :: مايوه رجالي {m} /māyūh rijāly/ |
| swimmist {n} (swimmer) SEE: swimmer | :: |
| swimsuit {n} | :: لباس سباحة {m} /libās sibāḥa/ |
| swimwear {n} (clothing for swimming) SEE: swimsuit | :: |
| swindle {v} (to defraud someone) | :: غش /ḡašša/, جدع /jadaʿa/ |
| swindle {v} (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods) | :: غش /ḡašša/, جدع /jadaʿa/ |
| swine {n} (pig) SEE: pig | :: |
| swine flu {n} (influenza caused by orthomyxoviruses) | :: إنفلونزا خنازير {f} /ʾinfluwanzā ḵanāzīr/ |
| swine influenza {n} (swine flu) SEE: swine flu | :: |
| swing {v} (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point) | :: تأرجح /taʾarjaḥa/ |
| swirl {n} (whirling eddy) | :: دوامة {f} /duwwāma/ |
| Swiss {adj} (of or pertaining to Switzerland) | :: سويسري /swīsriyy/, سويسري /suwīsriyy/ |
| Swiss Army knife {n} (type of pocket knife) | :: سكين سويسري {m} /sikkīn swīsiriyy/ |
| Swiss chard {n} (chard) SEE: chard | :: |
| Swiss Confederation {prop} (Official name of Switzerland) | :: الاتحاد السويسري {m} /al-ittiḥād as-suwaysriyy/ |
| Swiss franc {n} (currency of Switzerland) | :: فرنك سويسري {m} /frank swīsiriyy/ |
| switch {n} (device to turn electric current on and off) | :: مقلاد {m} /miqlād/ |
| Switzerland {prop} (sovereign country) | :: سويسرا {f} /swīsrā/, سويسرا {f} /suwīsrā/ |
| swole {adj} (upset) SEE: upset | :: |
| sword {n} (weapon) | :: سيف {m} /sayf/ |
| swordfish {n} (Xiphias gladius) | :: سمكة سيف {f} /samaka(t) sayf/ |
| swordman {n} (swordsman) SEE: swordsman | :: |
| sword of Damocles {n} (thing or situation which causes a prolonged state of impending doom or misfortune) | :: سيف مسلت |
| swordsman {n} (a person skilled at using swords) | :: سياف {m} /sayyāf/ |
| swordsman {n} (a person who fights with a sword) | :: سياف {m} /sayyāf/ |
| sycamore {n} (Platanus) | :: شجر جميز /shakhar jamīz/ |
| sycophant {n} (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another person.) | :: متملق ذليل {m} /mutamalliq ḏalīl/ |
| Sydney {prop} (in Australia) | :: سيدني {m} /sidnī/, سدني {m} /sidnī/ |
| Sydney Opera House {prop} (performing arts centre) | :: دار أوبرا سيدني {f} /dār ʾūbirā sidnī/ |
| Syeda {n} (honorific title) | :: سيدة {f} /sayyida/ |
| syenite {n} (obsolete: granite) SEE: granite | :: |
| Syktyvkar {prop} (city in Russia) | :: سيكتيفكار {m} /siktifkār/ |
| syllable {n} (unit of speech) | :: مقطع لفظي {m} /maqṭaʿ lafẓiyy/, مقطع {m} /maqṭaʿ/ |
| Sylvester {prop} (male given name) | :: سهمرثفسثق |
| symbol {n} (character or glyph) | :: رمز {m} /ramz/, علامة {f} /ʿalāma/ |
| symbol {n} (object meant to represent another) | :: رمز {m} /ramz/, شارة {f} /šāra/, شعار {m} /šiʿār/ |
| symmetric {adj} (symmetrical) SEE: symmetrical | :: |
| symmetrical {adj} (exhibiting symmetry) | :: متماثل /mutamāṯil/ |
| symmetric difference {n} (set of elements belonging only one of given two sets) | :: فرق تماثلي {m} |
| symmetry {n} (correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis) | :: تناظر {m} /tanāẓir/ |
| sympathy {n} (feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another) | :: تعاطف {m} /taʿāṭuf/, عطف {m} /ʿaṭf/, حنو {m} /ḥunū/ |
| sympathy {n} | :: تعاطف /taʕāṭafa/ |
| symphony {n} (piece of orchestral music) | :: سيمفونية {f} /sīmfūniyya/ |
| symphony orchestra {n} (large orchestra that traditionally plays Western classical orchestral music) | :: أوركسترا سمفوني {f} /ʾūrkistrā ssimfūnī/ |
| symptom {n} (figuratively: indicator of something) | :: عرض {m} /ʿaraḍ/ |
| symptomatology {n} | :: علم الأعراض {m} /ʿilm al-ʾaʿrāḍ/ |
| synagogue {n} (Jewish place of worship) | :: كنيس {m} /kanīs/, بيعة {f} /bīʿa/ |
| synapse {n} (junction between neurons) | :: مشبك {m} |
| syndrome {n} (recognizable pattern of symptoms or behaviours) | :: متلازمة {f} /mutalāzima/, أعراض {m} /ʾaʿrāḍ/, سندرم {m} /sindurum/ |
| synergy {n} (medicine: combined action) | :: تعاضد {m} /taʿāḍud/ |
| synergy {n} (benefits from combining different groups, people, objects or processes) | :: تعاضد {m} /taʿāḍud/ |
| synod {n} (ecclesiastic council or meeting) | :: سينودوس {m} /siyanūdūs/ |
| synonym {n} (word with same meaning as another) | :: مرادف {m} /murādif/, مرادفات {p} /murādifāt/ |
| syntactic sugar {n} | :: التجميل اللغوي {m} /at-tajmīl al-luḡawiyy/ |
| syntax {n} (set of rules that govern how words are combined) | :: بناء جملة {m} /bināʾ jumla/ |
| syntaxis {n} (syntax) SEE: syntax | :: |
| synthesis {n} (formation of something complex or coherent) | :: تركيب {m} /tarkīb/ |
| synthesis {n} (chemistry: reaction of elements or compounds) | :: اصطناع {m} /iṣṭināʿ/, اصطناع كيميائي {m} /iṣṭināʿ kīmiyāʾiyy/ |
| synthesizer {n} (music: an electronic keyboard instrument) | :: سنثسيزر {m} /sinṯisayzar/ |
| syphilis {n} (sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum) | :: زهري /zuhariyy/, مرض فرنجي /maraḍ firanjiyy/, الافرنجي /al-ifranjiyy/ |
| Syracuse {prop} (province Sicily) | :: سرقوسة {f} /sirqūsa/ |
| Syracuse {prop} (city in New York state) | :: سيراكيوز |
| Syria {prop} (country in the Middle East) | :: سوريا {f} /sūriyā/, سورية {f} /sūriyya/ |
| Syriac {prop} (language) | :: السريانية /as-suryāniyya/ |
| Syriac {n} (Syriac speaker) | :: سرياني {m} /suryāniyy/, سريانية {f} /suryāniyya/, سريان {p} /suryān/ |
| Syrian {adj} (of, from, or pertaining to Syria, the Syrian people or the Syrian language) | :: سوري /sūriyy/ |
| Syrian {n} (a person from Syria or of Syrian descent) | :: سوري {m} /sūriyy/, سورية {f} /sūriyya/ |
| Syrian Arab Republic {prop} (official name of Syria) | :: الجمهورية العربية السورية {f} /al-jumhūriyya(t) al-ʿarabiyya(t) as-sūriyya/ |
| syringe {n} (hypodermic syringe) | :: حقنة {f} /ḥuqna/, محقنة {f} /miḥqana/ |
| syrup {n} (thick liquid that has a high sugar content) | :: شراب {m} /šarāb/ |
| sysadmin {n} (systems administrator) | :: مدير أنظمة {m} /mudīr ʾanẓima/ |
| system {n} (collection of organized things; whole composed of relationships among its members) | :: نظام {m} /niẓām/, جهاز {m} /jihāz/ |
| systematic {adj} (carried out using a planned, ordered procedure) | :: ممنهج /mumanhaj/ |
| systematic {adj} (methodical, regular and orderly) | :: ممنهج /mumanhaj/ |
| Szczecin {prop} (city in Poland) | :: شتتين {m} /štitīn/ |