The older meaning
You know خادم as a computer server, سهم as a share on the stock market and إطار as a car tire. Each word had an older meaning first: a خادم was a servant (plural خَدَم), a سهم an arrow (plural سِهَام; shares are أَسْهُم), an إطار a frame.
| you know | the new word |
|---|---|
| خَادِم server | خَادِم servant |
| سَهْم stock (a share) | سَهْم arrow |
| إِطَار tire | إِطَار frame; framework |
A king has servants, not servers:
| The servant carried the food to the king. | حمل الخادم الطعام إلى الملك. |
A share is not red and does not lead to an exit, so this سهم is an arrow:
| We followed the red arrow to the exit. | اتبعنا السهم الأحمر إلى المخرج. |
Within the framework of
في إطار is how the news says as part of, within the framework of:
| The minister visited the exhibition within the framework of cooperation between the two countries. | زار الوزير المعرض في إطار التعاون بين البلدين. |
Centuries and traditions
| word | meaning | plural |
|---|---|---|
| قَرْن | century | قُرُون |
| تَقْلِيد | tradition | تَقَالِيد |
| أَصْل | origin | أُصُول |
تقليدي traditional and أصلي original are the adjectives of the last two.
After the numbers three to ten comes the plural قرون:
| This palace was built five centuries ago. | بني هذا القصر قبل خمسة قرون. |
The adjective and the plural noun side by side:
| We love traditional clothes and old traditions. | نحب الملابس التقليدية والتقاليد القديمة. |
من أصل + a nationality adjective means of … origin:
| My husband's family is of Egyptian origin. | عائلة زوجي من أصل مصري. |
Art or technology?
فَنِّيّ comes from فن art, but it also means technical: a work of art is عمل فني, a technical problem is مشكلة فنية.
| In the museum there are works of art from the tenth century. | في المتحف أعمال فنية من القرن العاشر. |
| The museum closed its doors because of a technical problem. | أغلق المتحف أبوابه بسبب مشكلة فنية. |
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