ستارة

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Arabic

Root
س ت ر (s t r)
8 terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /si.taː.ra/
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Noun

سِتَارَة (sitāraf (plural سِتَارَات (sitārāt) or سَتَائِر (satāʔir))

  1. veil; screen; curtain
  2. blind (window covering)
  3. (historical) a kind of siege engine, probably a mantlet
    • a. 1234, بهاء الدين ابن شداد [Bahāʔ ad-Dīn b. Šaddād], edited by Albert Schultens, النوادر السلطانية والمحاسن اليوسفية [The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin]‎, Leiden: Samuel Luchtman, published 1732, Pars 1, Cap. 37, page 75:
      ولما تكاملت عنده آلات القتال من المناجنيق والدبابات والستائر وغير ذلك نازل عليها في ثاني وعشرين وضائقها وقاتلها قتالا عظيما
      Having finished erecting the machines of war, mangonels, crawlers and blinds and more he attacked it the twenty-secondth time, tightly in a rough clash.

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References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “ستر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN