| dab {n} (fingerprint) SEE: fingerprint | :: |
| Dacia {prop} (ancient kingdom and Roman province) | :: داقية {f} /dāqiya/ |
| dad {n} (informal: a father) | :: بابا {m} /bābā/ |
| daddy {n} (father) | :: بابا {m} /bābā/, أبي {m} /ʾabī/ (my father) |
| Daegu {prop} (city in South Korea) | :: دايغو {f} /dāyḡū/ |
| Daejeon {prop} (a city in South Korea) | :: دايجيون {m} /dayjyūn/ |
| Daesh {prop} (translations of the term "Daesh" only, see also: ISIS) | :: داعش {m} {f} /dāʿiš/ |
| daffodil {n} (flower) | :: نرجس بري {m} /narjus barriyy/ |
| Dagestan {prop} (federal subject of Russia) | :: داغستان {m} /dāḡistān/ |
| dagga {n} (cement) SEE: cement | :: |
| dagger {n} (a stabbing weapon) | :: خنجر {m} /ḵanjar/ |
| Dagon {prop} (main god of the Phoenicians) | :: دجون |
| dahlia {n} (any plant of the genus Dahlia) | :: داليا {m} /dāliyyā/ |
| daikon {n} (large white radish) | :: فجل /fijl/, دايكون /dāykūn/ |
| daily {adj} (that occurs every day) | :: يومي /yawmiyy/ |
| daily {adv} (every day) | :: يوميا /yawmiyyan/, كل يوم /kulla yawmin/ |
| daily bread {n} (things needed to sustain physical life) | :: رزق {m} /rizq/ |
| dairy {n} (place, where milk is processed) | :: ملبنة {f} /malbana/ |
| daisy {n} (Bellis perennis) | :: أقحوان /ʾuqḥuwān/ |
| daisy {n} | :: زهر اللؤلؤ {m} /zahr al-luʾluʾ/ |
| Dakar {prop} (the capital city of Senegal) | :: داكار {m} /dakār/ |
| Dalai Lama {n} (the supreme head of Tibetan Buddhism) | :: دالاي لاما {m} /dalay lāmā/ |
| Dalian {prop} (subprovincial city in northeastern China) | :: داليان {m} /dalyān/ |
| Dallas {prop} (city in Texas) | :: دالاس {m} /dalās/ |
| dam {n} (structure placed across a flowing body of water) | :: سد {m} /sadd/ |
| damage {n} (abstract measure of something not being intact; harm) | :: عطل {m} /ʿuṭl/, ضرر {m} /ḍarar/, أضرار {m} /ʾiḍrār/, تلف {m} /talaf/, خسارة {f} /ḵasāra/ |
| damage {v} | :: ضرر /ḍarara/ |
| Damascene {adj} (of or relating to Damascus) | :: دمشقي /dimašqiyy/ |
| Damascene {n} (native or inhabitant of Damascus) | :: دمشقي {m} /dimašqiyy/, دمشقية {f} /dimašqiyya/ |
| Damascus {prop} (the capital city of Syria) | :: دمشق {m} /dimašq/, جيرون {f} /jayrūn/, الشام {m} /aš-šām/ |
| Damascus steel {n} (ancient kind of steel used in sword making) | :: فرند {m} /firind/ |
| damask {n} (fabric) | :: فرند {m} /firind/ |
| damask {n} (peculiar markings on Damascus steel) | :: فرند {m} /firind/ |
| damask {n} (Damascus steel) SEE: Damascus steel | :: |
| Damietta {prop} (town in the Nile delta in Egypt) | :: دمياط /dumyāṭ/ |
| damma {n} (an Arabic diacritic denoting the vowel point "u") | :: ضمة {f} /ḍamma/ |
| Dammam {prop} (city in Saudi Arabia) | :: الدمام {f} /ad-dammām/ |
| dammit {interj} (expression of anger or disappointment) | :: اللعنة /al-luʿna/ |
| damn {v} (theology: to condemn to hell) | :: لعن /laʿana/ |
| damn {v} (to put a curse upon) | :: لعن /laʿana/ |
| damn {adj} (generic intensifier) | :: ملعون /malʿūn/ |
| damp {n} (moisture) | :: رطوبة {f} /ruṭūba/ |
| damsel in distress {n} (young woman perceived as being in a dangerous situation.) | :: فتاة في محنة {f} /fatā(t) fī miḥna/ |
| Dana {prop} (female given name) | :: دانة {f} /dānatu/ |
| dance {n} (movements to music) | :: رقص {m} /raqṣ/ |
| dance {v} (move rhythmically to music) | :: رقص /raqaṣa/ |
| dance floor {n} (an area for dancing) | :: صالة رقص {f} /ṣālat raqṣ/ |
| dancer {n} (person who dances) | :: راقص {m} /rāqiṣ/, راقصة {f} /rāqiṣa/ |
| dancer {n} (a female person who dances) | :: راقصة {f} /rāqiṣa/ |
| dandelion {n} (plant, wild flower of the genus Taraxacum) | :: هندباء {f} /hindibāʾ/, طرخشقون {m} /ṭarḵašqūn/, مر {m} /murr/ [obsolete] |
| dandruff {n} (skin flakes) | :: قشرة الرأس {f} /qišra(t) ar-raʾs/ |
| Dane {n} (person from Denmark or of Danish descent) | :: دانماركي {m} /danimārkiyy/, دانمركية {f} /danimarkiyya/ |
| dang {adj} (damn) SEE: damn | :: |
| danger {n} (exposure to likely harm) | :: خطر {m} /ḵaṭar/ |
| danger {n} (instance or cause of liable harm) | :: خطر {m} /ḵaṭar/ |
| dangerous {adj} (full of danger) | :: خطر /ḵaṭir/ |
| Daniel {prop} (book of the Bible) | :: دانيال /danyāl/ |
| Daniel {prop} (biblical person) | :: دانيال /danyāl/ |
| Daniel {prop} (male given name) | :: دانيال /danyāl/ |
| Danish {prop} (language) | :: دانماركية {f} /dānmārkiyya/ |
| Danish {adj} (of Denmark) | :: دنماركي /danmārkiyy/ |
| Danish {n} (native of Denmark) SEE: Dane | :: |
| Danish crow {n} (hooded crow) SEE: hooded crow | :: |
| Dante {prop} (male given name) | :: دانتي {m} |
| Dantean {adj} (of or pertaining to Dante or his style) SEE: Dantesque | :: |
| Dantesque {adj} (of or pertaining to Dante or his style, with elevated tone and somber focus) | :: دانتيا |
| Danube {prop} (river of Europe that flows to the Black Sea) | :: دانوب {m} /dānūb/ |
| Danzig {prop} (Gdańsk) SEE: Gdańsk | :: |
| Daqing {prop} (a city of China) | :: داتشينغ {m} /datšīnḡ/ |
| darbuka {n} (goblet drum) SEE: goblet drum | :: |
| dare {v} (to have courage) | :: جرؤ /jaruʾa/ |
| dare {v} (to defy or challenge) | :: تحدى /taḥaddā/ |
| dare {v} (to brave or face up to) | :: واجه /wājaha/ |
| Dar es Salaam {prop} (city) | :: دار السلام {f} /dār as-salām/ |
| Darfur {prop} (region in western Sudan where the Fur live) | :: دار فور {f} /dār fūr/ |
| Dari {prop} (variety of Middle Persian) | :: درية {f} /dariyya/, دري {m} /dariyy/ |
| Dari {prop} (Eastern Persian) | :: درية {f} /dariyya/, دري {m} /dariyy/ |
| Darija {prop} (a Western Arabic dialect continuum) | :: الدارجة {f} /ad-dārija/ |
| daring {adj} (willing to take on risks) | :: جريء /jarīʾ/, جسور /jasūr/ |
| Darius {prop} (any of several Persian kings) | :: دارا {m} /dārā/, داريوس {m} /dāriyūs/ |
| Darius {prop} (male given name) | :: داريوش {m} /dāriyūš/ |
| dark {adj} (having an absolute or relative lack of light) | :: مظلم /muẓlim/ |
| dark {adj} (not bright or light, deeper in hue) | :: غامق /ḡāmiq/, داكن /dākin/ |
| Dark Ages {prop} (historic period) | :: العصور المظلمة /al-ʿuṣūru l-muẓlimatu/ |
| darkening {n} (act of something becoming darker) | :: تسويد {m} /taswīd/ |
| dark-haired {adj} (brunette) SEE: brunette | :: |
| dark magic {n} (black magic) SEE: black magic | :: |
| dark matter {n} (particles of matter that cannot be detected by their radiation) | :: مادة مظلمة {f} /mādda maẓlima/ |
| darkness {n} (state of being dark) | :: ظلام {m} /ẓalām/, ظلمة {f} /ẓulma/ |
| dark-skinned {adj} (having dark skin) | :: أسمر /ʾasmar/ |
| darling {n} (person who is dear to one) | :: حبيب {m} /ḥabīb/, حبيبة {f} /ḥabība/ |
| darmstadtium {n} (transuranic chemical element with atomic number 110) | :: دارمشتادتيوم {m} /darmštadtiyum/ |
| darn {adj} (damn) SEE: damn | :: |
| darn {interj} (damn) SEE: damn | :: |
| darn {v} (damn) SEE: damn | :: |
| Darth Vader {n} (Malevolent individual) | :: دارث فيدر /dārṯ fīdar/ |
| Darwin {prop} (surname) | :: داروين {m} /darwin/ |
| Darwin {prop} (city in Australia) | :: داروين {m} /darwin/ |
| dash {n} (colloquial: hyphen) SEE: hyphen | :: |
| dash {n} (typographic symbol) | :: شحطة {f} /šaḥṭa/, شرطة {f} /šarṭa/ |
| data {n} (information) | :: بيانات {f-p} /bayānāt/ |
| databank {n} (database) SEE: database | :: |
| database {n} (collection of information) | :: قاعدة بيانات {f} /qāʿidat bayānāt/ |
| database {n} (software program) | :: قاعدة بيانات {f} /qāʿidat bayānāt/ |
| database administrator {n} (person) | :: مدير قاعدة البيانات {m} /mudīr qaʿidat al-bayānāt/ |
| data mining {n} (technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns) | :: تنقيب في البيانات |
| data processing {n} (operations on data) | :: معالجة البيانات |
| data set {n} (modem) SEE: modem | :: |
| date {n} (fruit of the date palm) | :: تمرة {f} /tamra/, [collective] تمر {m} /tamr/ |
| date {n} (that which specifies the time of writing, inscription etc.) | :: تاريخ {m} /tārīḵ/ |
| date {n} (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place) | :: تاريخ {m} /tārīḵ/ |
| date {n} (pre-arranged social meeting) | :: مواعدة {f} /muwāʿada/, موعد {m} /mawʿid/ |
| date {n} (meeting with a lover or potential lover; a person so met) | :: لقاء الحب {m} /liqāʾ al-ḥubb/, موعد {m} /mawʿid/ |
| date {v} (to note the time of writing or executing) | :: أرخ /ʾarraḵa/ |
| date {v} (to note or fix the time of, as of an event) | :: أرخ /ʾarraḵa/ |
| date {n} (date palm) SEE: date palm | :: |
| date of birth {n} (birthday) SEE: birthday | :: |
| date of birth {n} (date and year when something was born) | :: تاريخ الميلاد {m} /tārīḵu l-mīlādi/ |
| date palm {n} (Phoenix dactylifera) | :: نخلة {f} /naḵla/ |
| date tree {n} (date palm) SEE: date palm | :: |
| dating {n} (process of estimating the age of something) | :: تأريخ {m} /taʾrīḵ/ |
| dative {adj} (grammar: noting the case of noun which expresses indirect object) | :: مفعول لأجله {m} |
| dative {n} (dative case) SEE: dative case | :: |
| dative case {n} (case used to express direction towards an indirect object) | :: حالة المفعول له {f} /ḥāla(t) al-mafʿūl lahu/, حالة من حالات النصب {f} /ḥāla(t) min ḥālāt an-nuṣb/ |
| Datong {prop} (a city of China) | :: داتونغ {m} /dātung/ |
| daughter {n} (female offspring) | :: ابنة {f} /ibna/, بنت {f} /bint/ |
| daughter-in-law {n} (wife of one's child) | :: زوجة الابن {f} /zawjat al-ibn/ |
| David {prop} (king of Israel) | :: داود {m} /dāwūd/, داوود {m} /dāwūd/ |
| David {prop} (male given name) | :: داوود /dāwūd/, ديفيد /dayfīd/ |
| daw {v} (dawn) SEE: dawn | :: |
| dawn {v} (to begin to brighten with daylight) | :: فجر {m} {f} /fajr/ |
| dawn {n} (morning twilight period) | :: فجر {m} /fajr/ |
| dawn {n} (beginning) | :: الفجر |
| dawn prayer {n} (fajr) SEE: fajr | :: |
| day {n} (period of 24 hours) | :: يوم {m} /yawm/ |
| day {n} (period from midnight to the following midnight) | :: يوم {m} /yawm/ |
| day {n} (part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.) | :: يوم {m} /yawm/ |
| day {n} (period between sunrise and sunset) | :: يوم /yawm/ [countable], نهار /nahār/ [uncountable] |
| day after day {adv} (For an indefinite number of days) | :: يوما بعد يوم |
| day after tomorrow {n} (day after tomorrow - translation entry) | :: بعد غد /baʿda ḡad/ |
| day after tomorrow {adv} (on the day after tomorrow; in two days - translation entry) | :: بعد غد /baʿda ḡad/ |
| day and night {adv} (all the time) | :: ليل نهار /layla nahāra/ |
| day before yesterday {n} (day before yesterday - translation entry) | :: أول أمس {m} /ʾawwal ʾams/ |
| day before yesterday {adv} (on the day before yesterday - translation entry) | :: قبل أمس /qabla ʾams/, أمس الأول /ʾams al-ʾawwal/, أول أمس {m} /ʾawwal ʾams/ |
| day blindness {n} (inability to see in bright light) | :: خفش /ḵafaš/ |
| day-blindness {n} (day blindness) SEE: day blindness | :: |
| daybook {n} (A daily chronicle; a diary) SEE: diary | :: |
| day off {n} (a day of vacation etc.) | :: يوم عطلة {m} /yawm ʿuṭla/ |
| days {n} (life) | :: أيام {p} /ʾayyām/ |
| daytime {n} (the time of daylight) | :: نهار {m} /nahāru/ |
| dazibao {n} (big-character poster) | :: دازيباو {m} /dazibāw/ |
| deacon {n} (a clergyman ranked directly below a priest) | :: شماس {m} /šammās/ |
| dead {adj} (no longer alive) | :: ميت /mayyit/ |
| dead as a doornail {adj} (unquestionably dead) | :: شبع موت |
| dead-end {n} (position) SEE: impasse | :: |
| deadfall {n} (cheap, rough bar or saloon) SEE: dive | :: |
| deadly {adj} (lethal) | :: مميت /mumītun/ |
| deadly nightshade {n} (deadly nightshade; Atropa belladonna) | :: ست الحسن {f} /sitt al-ḥusn/, بلادونا {f} /bilādūnā/, بيلادونا {f} /bīlādūnā/ |
| dead or alive {adj} (wanted poster term) | :: حي أو ميت /ḥayy ʾaw mayyit/ |
| Dead Sea {prop} (lake in the Middle East) | :: البحر الميت {m} /al-baḥr al-mayyit/ |
| deaf {adj} (unable to hear) | :: أصم /ʾaṣamm/ |
| deaf {n} (deaf people considered as a group) | :: الصم {p} /aṣ-ṣumm/ |
| deafen {v} (to make deaf) | :: أصم /ʾaṣamma/ |
| deafness {n} (condition of being deaf) | :: صمم /ṣamam/ |
| deal {v} (to conduct oneself) SEE: behave | :: |
| dealer {n} (one who deals in things, e.g. automobiles) | :: تاجر {m} /tājir/, تاجرة {f} /tājira/ |
| dear {adj} (loved; lovable) | :: عزيز /ʿazīz/ |
| dear {adj} (formal way of addressing) | :: عزيز /ʿazīz/ |
| dear {adj} (an informal way of addressing the recipient in a letter's opening line) | :: عزيز /ʿazīz/ |
| dear {adj} (high in price; expensive) SEE: expensive | :: |
| dear {n} (beloved#noun) SEE: beloved | :: |
| dearness {n} (quality of having great value) | :: غلاة /ḡalāh/ |
| death {n} (cessation of life) | :: موت {m} /mawt/, وفاة {f} /wafāh/ |
| death knell {n} (tolling of a bell announcing death) | :: صور {m} /ṣūr/ |
| deathlike {adj} (deadly) SEE: deadly | :: |
| death penalty {n} (state punishment of death) | :: إعدام {m} /ʾiʿdām/, عقوبة الإعدام {f} /ʿuqūbat al-ʾiʿdām/, عقوبة الموت {f} /ʿuqūbat al-mawt/ |
| death warrant {n} (warrant that authorizes capital punishment) | :: عقوبة الإعدام |
| death wish {n} (desire for the death of oneself or of someone else) | :: تمني الموت {m} /tamanī l-mawt/ |
| debate {n} (argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting) | :: مناظرة {f} /munāẓara/ |
| debate {n} | :: نقاش {m} |
| debauchery {n} (debauchery) | :: فجور {m} /fujūr/, إغواء {m} /ʾiḡwāʾ/, فسوق {m} /fusūq/ |
| debt {n} (action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another) | :: دين /dayn/ |
| debt {n} (money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another) | :: دين {m} /dayn/, قرض {m} /qarḍ/, قرض {m} /qirḍ/ |
| debtor {n} (a person or firm that owes money) | :: مدين {m} /madīn/ |
| debunk {v} (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something) | :: فند /fannada/ |
| decade {n} (period of ten years) | :: عقد {m} /ʿaqd/ |
| decadence {n} (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration) | :: اضمحلال {m} /iḍmiḥlāl/ |
| Decalogue {prop} (the Ten Commandments) SEE: Ten Commandments | :: |
| Decameron {prop} (collection of 100 novellas by Boccaccio) | :: ديكاميرون {m} /dīkāmīrūn/ |
| decapitate {v} (remove the head of) SEE: behead | :: |
| decapitation {n} (beheading) | :: قطع الرأس /qt alrs/ |
| decay {v} (to deteriorate) | :: اضمحل, تضعضع |
| decay {v} | :: تحلل /taḥallala/ |
| decease {n} (departure, especially departure from this life; death) | :: رحل عن الحياة |
| deceased {adj} (no longer alive) | :: ميت /mayyit/ ميت /mayt/ |
| deceive {v} (trick or mislead) | :: خدع /ḵadaʿa/ |
| decelerate {v} (reduce the acceleration of something) | :: أبطأ, تباطأ /tabāṭaʾ/ |
| decelerate {v} (to go slower) | :: تباطأ /tabāṭaʾ/ |
| deceleration {n} (the act or process of decelerating) | :: تباطؤ /tabāṭuʾ/ |
| December {prop} (twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar) | :: ديسمبر {m} /disimbir/, ديسمبر {m} /disambir/, كانون الأول {m} /kānūn al-ʾawwal/ |
| decency {n} (quality of being decent) | :: احترام, كرامة /karāma/ |
| deception {n} (instance of actions fabricated to mislead) | :: خداع {m} /ḵidāʿ/ |
| decide {v} (to resolve or settle) | :: قرر /qarrara/, صمم /ṣammama/ |
| decide {v} (give judgement) | :: قرر /qarrara/ |
| deciduous tooth {n} (baby tooth) SEE: milk tooth | :: |
| decision {n} (choice or judgement) | :: قرار {m} /qarār/, تصميم {m} /taṣmīm/ |
| decision {n} | :: قرار {m} |
| deck {n} (floorlike covering on a ship) | :: ظهر {m} /ẓahr/, سطح {m} /saṭḥ/ |
| declaration {n} (written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief) | :: إعلان {m} /ʾiʿlān/ |
| declare {v} | :: اعلن /aʿlana/ |
| declension {n} (way of categorizing) | :: [usually of Arabic nouns] إعراب {m} /ʾiʿrāb/, صرف {m} /ṣarf/, [inflection of nouns] تصريف الأسماء {m} /taṣrīf al-ʾasmāʾ/, تصريف {m} /taṣrīf/ |
| declination {n} (declension) SEE: declension | :: |
| decode {v} (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) | :: فك تشفير {m} |
| decollate {v} (behead) SEE: behead | :: |
| decommission {v} (to take out of service or to render unusable) | :: يلجأ /yalājaʾa/ |
| decree {n} (edict or law) | :: أمر {m} /ʾamr/ |
| decree {n} | :: مرسوم /marsūm/ |
| dedicate {v} (to commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action) | :: توفر |
| deduce {v} (reach conclusion by logic) | :: إستنتج /ʾistantaja/ |
| dee {n} (name of the letter D, d) | :: دي {m} /dī/ |
| deed {n} (action) | :: عمل {m} /ʿamal/, فعل {m} /fiʿl/ |
| deed {n} (brave or noteworthy action, feat or exploit) | :: مأثرة {f} /maʾṯura/ |
| deed {n} (legal instrument) | :: وثيقة {f} /waṯīqa/ |
| deem {n} (an opinion, judgment) SEE: opinion | :: |
| deen {n} (religion) SEE: religion | :: |
| deen {n} (Islam) SEE: Islam | :: |
| deen {n} ((Islam) religion; religiosity; the way of life of a pious Muslim) | :: دين {m} /dīn/ |
| deep {adj} (having its bottom far down) | :: عميق /ʿamīq/ |
| deep {adj} | :: عميق /ʿamīq/ |
| deep blue {adj} (dark blue) SEE: navy | :: |
| deepen {v} (to make deep or deeper) | :: تعمق /taʿammaqa/ |
| deep sleep {n} (state of sleep) | :: نوم عميق {m} /nawm ʿamīq/ |
| deep state {n} (large group of people believed to have long-lasting political influence) | :: دولة العميقة {f} /dawla(t) al-ʿamīqa/, دولة المتخذرة {f} /dawla(t) al-mutaḵaḏara/, دولة بداخل دولة {f} /dawla(t) bidāḵil dawla/ |
| deer {n} (animal of the family Cervidae) | :: أيل {m} /ʾayyil/ |
| defeat {v} (to overcome in battle or contest) | :: غلب /ḡalaba/, هزم /hazama/ |
| defeat {n} (the act of being defeated, of losing) | :: هزيمة {f} /hazīma/ |
| defeated {adj} (subjugated, beaten, overcome) | :: مغلوب /maḡlūb/ |
| defecate {v} | :: تغوط /taḡawwaṭa/ |
| defence {n} (defence) SEE: defense | :: |
| defend {v} (ward off attacks against) | :: دافع /dāfaʿa/ |
| defendant {n} (person prosecuted or sued, the accused) | :: مدعى عليه {m} /muddaʿan ʿalayhi/ |
| defender {n} (sports term) | :: مدافع {m} /mudāfiʿ/ |
| defenestrate {v} (eject from a window) | :: يلقي من النافذة |
| defense {n} (action of protecting from attack) | :: دفاع {m} /difāʿ/, حماية {f} /ḥimāya/, محافظة {f} /muḥāfaẓa/ |
| definite {adj} ((linguistics) designating an identified or immediately identifiable person or thing) | :: معرفة {f} /maʿrifa/ |
| definitely {adv} (without question and beyond doubt) | :: بالتأكيد /bi-t-taʾkīd/ |
| definition {n} (statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or symbol) | :: تعريف {m} /taʿrīf/ |
| deflate {v} (reduction, usually in volume) | :: انكمش |
| deflation {n} (decrease in the general price level) | :: انكماش |
| deflower {v} (to take the virginity of a woman or girl) | :: إفتض |
| defy {n} (challenge) SEE: challenge | :: |
| degrade {v} (to reduce in quality or purity) | :: تردى /taraddā/ |
| degree {n} (in geometry: unit of angle) | :: درجة {f} /daraja/ |
| degree {n} (unit of temperature) | :: درجة {f} /daraja/ |
| degree {n} (academic award) | :: شهادة {f} /šihāda/ |
| degustation {n} (tasting) SEE: tasting | :: |
| dehydration {n} (condition in which water in the body drops below normal levels) | :: جفاف {m} /jafāf/, تجفاف {m} /tajfāf/ |
| deicide {n} (killing) | :: قتل إله {m} /qatl ʾilah/ |
| deicide {n} (killer) | :: قاتل إله {m} /qātil ʾilāh/ |
| deicide {n} (crucifixion) | :: صلب {m} /ṣalb/ |
| deification {n} (Act of deifying) | :: تأليه {m} /taʾlīh/ |
| deify {v} (to make a god of) | :: أله /ʾallaha/ |
| deism {n} | :: ربوبية {f} /rubūbiyya/ |
| deity {n} | :: إله {m} /ʾilāh/, معبود {m} /maʿbūd/ |
| deity {n} (divinity) SEE: divinity | :: |
| dejected {adj} (sad and dispirited) | :: قانط /qāniṭ/, أسوان /ʾaswān/, بائس /bāʾis/, حزين /ḥazīn/ |
| delay {n} (period of time before an event occurs) | :: تأخير {m} /taʾḵīr/, تأخر {m} /taʾaḵḵar/ |
| delay {v} (put off until a later time) | :: أجل /ʾajjala/, أبطأ /ʾabṭaʾa/ [slow down, hold up] |
| delegate {n} (deputy, envoy, representative) | :: موفد {m} /muwfad/, وكيل {m} /wakīl/ |
| delegate {v} (to commit a task to someone) | :: فوض |
| delegation {n} (act of delegating) | :: تفويض {m} /tafwīḍ/ |
| delegation {n} (a group of delegates) | :: بعثة {f} /biʿṯa/, وفد {m} /wafd/ |
| delete {v} (to remove) | :: حذف /ḥaḏafa/, يحذف /yaḥḏifu/ (present tense) |
| deleted scene {n} | :: مشهد محذوف {m} /mašhad maḥḏūf/ |
| Delhi {prop} (city in India) | :: دلهي {f} /dilhī/ |
| deliberate {v} (consider carefully) | :: ائتمر /iʾtamara/ |
| deliberately {adv} (intentionally) | :: عمدا /ʿumdan/ |
| delicious {adj} (pleasing to taste) | :: لذيذ /laḏīḏ/ |
| deliciousness {n} (state or quality of being delicious) | :: لذة {f} /laḏḏa/ |
| delight {n} (joy, pleasure) | :: فرجة {f} /furja/ |
| delighted {adj} (Greatly pleased) | :: مسرور /masrūr/ |
| delightful {adj} (pleasant; pleasing) | :: بهيج /bahīj/ |
| deliver {v} (to bring or transport something to its destination) | :: نقل /naqala/ |
| delivery {n} (act of conveying something) | :: توصيل {m} /tawṣīl/, تسليم {m} /taslīm/, توزيع {m} /tawzīʿ/ |
| delivery {n} (act of giving birth) | :: مخاض {m} /maḵāḍ/, وضع {m} /waḍʿ/, ولادة {f} /wilāda/ |
| delivery {n} (manner of speaking) | :: إلقاء {m} /ʾilqāʾ/ |
| dell {n} (valley) SEE: valley | :: |
| delphinium {n} (plant) SEE: larkspur | :: |
| delta {n} (fourth letter of modern Greek alphabet) | :: دلتا {f} /diltā/, دلتا {f} /deltā/ |
| deltoid {adj} (in the shape of Δ) SEE: triangular | :: |
| deluge {n} (a great flood) | :: طوفان {m} /ṭūfān/ |
| delusion {n} (that which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief) | :: غرور {m} /ḡarūr/ |
| delusion of grandeur {n} (False belief that one is important or powerful) | :: جنون العظمة |
| demagogue {n} ((pejorative) a political orator or leader who gains favor by pandering to or exciting the passions and prejudices of the audience rather than by using rational argument) | :: زعيم الدهماء, دهماوي /dahmāwiyy/ |
| demand {n} (desire to purchase goods and services) | :: طلب {m} /ṭalab/ |
| demand {n} (need, requirement) | :: مطلب /muṭṭalib/ |
| demand {v} (to request forcefully) | :: طلب /ṭalaba/ |
| demented {adj} (insane or mentally ill) | :: مخبول /maḵbūl/, مجنون /majnūn/, مسعور /masʿūr/ |
| Demeter {prop} (Greek goddess of the harvest) | :: ديميتر {f} /dimitir/ |
| demigod {n} (a half-god or hero) | :: نصف إله {m} /niṣf ʾilāh/ |
| demijohn {n} (bottle) | :: دمجانة {f} /damajāna/ |
| demilitarized zone {n} (area) | :: منطقة منزوعة السلاح /minṭaqatu manzūʿatu s-salāḥ/ |
| democracy {n} (rule by the people) | :: ديمقراطية {f} /dīmuqrāṭiyya/ |
| democracy {n} (government under the rule of its people) | :: ديمقراطية {f} /dīmuqrāṭiyya/ |
| democrat {n} (supporter of democracy) | :: ديمقراطي {m} /dīmuqrāṭiyy/, ديمقراطية {f} /dīmuqrāṭiyya/ |
| democratic {adj} (pertaining to democracy) | :: ديمقراطي {m} /dīmuqrāṭī/ |
| Democratic People's Republic of Korea {prop} (country in East Asia (official name)) | :: جمهورية كوريا الديمقراطية الشعبية {f} /jumhūriyyat kōriyā d-dimuqrāṭiyya š-šaʿbiyya/ |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo {prop} (large central African nation, formerly called Zaire) | :: جمهورية الكونغو الديمقراطية {f} /jumhūriyyat al-konḡō d-dimuqrāṭiyya/ |
| democratic socialism {n} (socialism based on democratic principles) | :: اشتراكية ديمقراطية {f} /ištirākiyya dimuqrāṭiyya/ |
| Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka {prop} (Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka) | :: جمهورية سريلانكا الديمقراطية الاشتراكية {f} /jumhūriyya sirīlānkā ad-dīmuqrāṭiyya al-ištirākiyya/ |
| demography {n} (study of human populations) | :: ديموغرافيا {f} /dimuḡrāfiyā/, دموغرافيا {f} /dimuḡrāfiyā/ |
| demolish {v} (to destroy) | :: هدم /hadama/ |
| demolition {n} (the action of demolishing or destroying) | :: هدم {m} /hadm/ |
| demon {n} (evil spirit) | :: شيطان {m} /šayṭān/ |
| demonology {n} (study of demons) | :: علم الشياطين /ʿilm aš-šayāṭīn/ |
| demonstrate {v} (to participate in a demonstration) | :: تظاهر /taẓāhar/, احتج |
| demonstration {n} (public display of opinion) | :: مظاهرة {f} /muẓāhara/, تظاهر {m} /taẓāhur/ |
| demonstrator {n} (forefinger) SEE: forefinger | :: |
| demulcent {n} (soothing medication) | :: ملطف |
| den {n} (home of certain animals) | :: عرين {m} /ʿarīn/, جحر {m} /juḥr/, عش {m} /ʿušš/ |
| dendrochronology {n} (science of counting tree rings) | :: علم تحديد أعمار الأشجار |
| Deneb {prop} (blue giant in Cygnus) | :: ذنب الدجاج {m} /ḏanab ad-dajāj/ |
| Deng {prop} (Chinese surname) | :: دينغ /dinḡ/, تينغ /tinḡ/ |
| denial {n} (negation in logic) | :: نفي {m} /nafy/ |
| denial {n} (refusal to comply with a request) | :: إنكار {m} /ʾinkār/, رفض {m} /rafḍ/, إباء {m} /ʾibāʾ/ |
| denial {n} (assertion of untruth) | :: رد {m} /radd/ |
| denier {n} (person who denies something) | :: منكر /munkir/ |
| denigration {n} (blackening or defamation) | :: تسويد |
| Denmark {prop} (country in Northern Europe) | :: الدنمارك {f} /ad-danmārk/ |
| denominator {n} (number or expression written below the line in a fraction) | :: قاسم {m} /qāsim/ |
| denounce {v} (to make a formal or public accusation against) | :: وشى /wašā/ |
| de novo {adv} (anew) SEE: anew | :: |
| dense {adj} (having relatively high density) | :: كثيف /kaṯīf/, غليظ /ḡalīẓ/ |
| density {n} (physics: amount of matter contained by a given volume) | :: كثافة {f} /kaṯāfa/ |
| dental {adj} (of or concerning the teeth) | :: سني /sinniyy/ |
| dental {adj} (phonetics) | :: أسناني /ʾasnāniyy/ |
| dental floss {n} (cord of thin filaments used to clean the areas between the teeth) | :: خيط أسنان /ḵayṭ ʾasnān/ |
| dentist {n} (specialized tooth doctor) | :: طبيب الأسنان {m} /ṭabīb al-ʾasnān/, دكتور الأسنان {m} /duktūr al-ʾasnān/ |
| Denver boot {n} (wheel clamp) SEE: wheel clamp | :: |
| deny {v} (disallow) SEE: forbid | :: |
| deny {v} (to assert that something is not true) | :: نفى /nafā/ |
| deodorant {n} (odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm) | :: مزيل العرق {m} /muzīl al-ʿaraq/, مزيل الرائحة {m} /muzīl ar-rāʾiḥa/ |
| Deo volente {interj} (God willing) SEE: God willing | :: |
| department {n} (part, portion, subdivision) | :: قسم {m} /qism/ |
| department {n} (subdivision of organization) | :: قسم {m} /qism/ |
| department {n} | :: دائرة {f} /dāʾira/ |
| departure {n} (the act of departing) | :: رحيل {m} /raḥīl/, مغادرة {f} /muḡādara/ |
| depend {v} (be contingent or conditioned) | :: اعتمد /iʿtamada/ |
| dependent {adj} (relying upon; depending upon) | :: متوقف /mutawaqqif/, معتمد /muʿtamid/ |
| deplete {v} (exhaust) SEE: exhaust | :: |
| deportation {n} (act of deporting or exiling) | :: طرد {m} /ṭard/ |
| depose {v} | :: عزل (ʕázala), خلع /ḵalaʿa/, أقال /ʾaqāla/; شهد أمام محكمة /šahida ʾamāma maḥkama/ |
| deposit {v} (to put money or funds into an account) | :: أودع /ʾawdaʿa/ |
| depot {n} (warehouse or similar storage facility) | :: مستودع {m} /mustawdaʿ/ |
| depressed {adj} (severely despondent and unhappy) | :: محبط |
| depression {n} (geography: low area) | :: منخفض {m} /munḵafaḍ/ |
| depression {n} (psychology: state of mind) | :: اكتئاب {m} /iktiʾāb/, إحباط {m} /ʾiḥbāṭ/ |
| depression {n} (economics: period of major economic contraction) | :: كساد {m} /kasād/ |
| depth {n} (vertical distance below a surface) | :: عمق {m} /ʿamq/ |
| depths {n} (plural of depth) SEE: depth | :: |
| deputy {n} (representative) | :: نائب {m} /nāʾib/, نائبة {f} /nāʾiba/ |
| deranged {adj} (disturbed or upset, especially mentally) | :: مضطرب /muḍṭarib/, مختل /muḵtall/ |
| deranged {adj} (insane) | :: مختل /muḵtall/, مضطرب /muḍṭarib/ |
| deregulate {v} (to remove the regulations from) | :: إلغاء الضوابط التنظيمية /ʾilḡāʾ aḍ-ḍawābiṭ at-tanẓīmiyya/ |
| de rigueur {adj} (necessary according to etiquette) | :: ملزم اجتماعيا |
| derive {v} (obtain (something) from something else) | :: استمد |
| derive {v} (deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning) | :: استنتج |
| dermal {adj} (of or pertaining to skin or integument) | :: جلدي /jildiyy/ |
| dermis {n} (skin layer underlying epidermis) | :: أدمة /ʾadama/ |
| derogatory {adj} (tending to lessen the value of) | :: حقير /ḥaqīr/, دنيء /danīʾ/ |
| derrière {n} (bottom, bum, backside) | :: المؤخرة {f} |
| dervish {n} (a member of Dervish fraternity of Sufism) | :: درويش {m} /darwīš/ |
| Dervish {n} (a Sufi Muslim ascetic fraternity) | :: درويش {m} /darwīš/ |
| desalination {n} (process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water) | :: تقطير {m} /taqṭīr/, إعذاب /ʾiʿḏāb/ |
| descend {v} (to pass from a higher to a lower place) | :: نزل /nazala/ |
| descendant {n} (one who is the progeny of someone) | :: سليل {m} /salīl/ |
| descent {n} (lineage or hereditary derivation) | :: اصل /aṣl/ |
| describe {v} (to represent in words) | :: وصف /waṣafa/ |
| describe {v} | :: يوضح |
| description {n} (account in words) | :: وصف {m} /waṣf/ |
| description word {n} (adjective) SEE: adjective | :: |
| descry {v} (see) SEE: see | :: |
| desert {n} (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward) | :: جزاء {m} /jazāʾun/ |
| desert {n} (barren area) | :: صحراء {f} /ṣaḥrāʾ/ |
| deserted {adj} (abandoned) | :: مهجور /mahjūr/ |
| deserve {v} (to merit) | :: استحق /istaḥaqqa/ |
| design {n} (plan) | :: تخطيط {m} /taḵṭīṭ/, تصميم /taṣmīm/ |
| design {n} (art of designing) | :: تصميم {m} /taṣmīm/ |
| design {v} | :: يصمم (yusámmem) |
| designee {n} (one who has been designated) SEE: assignee | :: |
| designer {n} (person who designs) | :: مصمم {m} /muṣammim/, مصممة {f} /muṣammima/ |
| desinential inflection {n} (system of inflectional endings of Classical Arabic) | :: إعراب {m} /ʾiʿrāb/ |
| desire {v} (desire) SEE: want | :: |
| desire {v} (wish for earnestly) | :: رغب /raḡiba/ |
| desire {n} (something wished for) | :: رغبة {f} /raḡba/ |
| desk {n} (table for writing and reading) | :: مكتب {m} /maktab/, منضدة {f} /minḍada/ |
| desktop {n} (on-screen background) | :: سطح المكتب /saṭḥ al-maktab/ |
| despair {v} (to be hopeless) | :: يئس /yaʾisa/ |
| despair {n} (loss of hope) | :: يأس /yaʾs/ |
| desperate {n} (filled with despair) | :: يائس /yāʾis/, قانط /qāniṭ/ |
| despise {v} (to regard with contempt or scorn) | :: احتقر /iḥtaqara/, أهان /ʾahāna/ |
| despite {prep} (in spite of) | :: رغم /raḡma/, بالرغم من /bi-r-raḡmi min/, مع /maʿa/ |
| despondent {adj} (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) | :: قانط /qāniṭ/, أسوان /ʾaswān/, بائس /bāʾis/, حزين /ḥazīn/ |
| despot {n} (ruler with absolute power; tyrant) | :: طاغ {m} /ṭāḡin/ [indefinite], الطاغي {m} /aṭ-ṭāḡī/ [definite], مستبد /mustabidd/, ظالم {m} /ẓālim/, طاغية {f} /ṭāḡiya/ |
| dessert {n} (sweet confection served as the last course of a meal) | :: حلوى {f} /ḥalwā/, حلويات {f-p} /ḥalwayāt/, تحلية {f} /taḥliya/ |
| destiny {n} (predetermined condition; fate; fixed order of things) SEE: fate | :: |
| destitute {adj} (lacking something, devoid; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken) | :: معدم |
| destroy {v} (to damage beyond use or repair) | :: دمر /dammara/ |
| destroyer {n} (that who/which destroys) | :: مدمر {m} /mudammir/ |
| destruction {n} (act of destroying) | :: تدمير {m} /tadmīr/, هدم {m} /hadm/ |
| destructive criticism {n} (criticism) | :: نقد هدام {m} /naqdun haddāmun/ |
| detail {n} (something small enough to escape casual notice) | :: تفصيل {m} /tafṣīl/, تفاصيل {p} /tafāṣīl/ |
| Detailed {prop} (41st sura of the Qur'an) | :: سورة فصلت |
| detain {v} (to detain) SEE: hold | :: |
| detain {v} (put under custody) | :: اعتقل /iʿtaqala/ |
| detainee {n} (one who is detained) | :: أسير {m} /ʾasīr/, أسيرة {f} /ʾasīra/, أسرى {m-p} /ʾasrā/, أسيرات {f-p} /ʾasīrāt/ |
| detect {v} (to detect) SEE: notice | :: |
| detect {v} (to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing) | :: كشف /kašafa/ |
| detective {n} (police officer who looks for evidence) | :: محقق {m} /muḥaqqiq/ |
| determination {n} (act of determining, or the state of being determined) | :: عزيمة {f} /ʿazīma/ |
| determinative {n} (determiner) SEE: determiner | :: |
| determiner {n} (class of words) | :: تحديد ما /tahdid ma/ |
| determinism {n} (notion in ethics) | :: حتمية {f} /ḥatmiyya/ |
| detonation {n} (an explosion) | :: تفجير {m} /tafjīr/ |
| detrimental {adj} (causing damage or harm) | :: ضار /ḍārr/ |
| Detroit {prop} (largest city and former capital of Michigan) | :: ديترويت {f} /ditrūyt/ |
| dette {n} (debt) SEE: debt | :: |
| Deutsche Mark {n} (former currency unit of Germany) | :: مارك ألماني {m} /mārk ʾalmāniyy/ |
| Devanagari {prop} (abugida alphabet of India and Nepal) | :: ديفاناجاري {m} /difanagarī/, ديفاناجاري {m} /difanajarī/, ديفاناغاري {m} /difanaḡarī/, ديفاناغاري {m} /difanagarī/ |
| develop {v} (to progress through stages) | :: طور /ṭawwara/ |
| development {n} (process of developing) | :: إعمار {m} /ʾiʿmār/, تعمير {m} /taʿmīr/, تطور {m} /taṭawwur/ |
| deviation {n} (act of deviating) | :: إنحراف {m} /ʾinḥirāf/ |
| device {n} (piece of equipment) | :: أداة {f} /ʾadāh/, جهاز {m} /jihāz/ |
| devil {n} (a creature of hell) | :: شيطان {m} /šayṭān/ |
| devil {n} (the devil: the chief devil) | :: إبليس {m} |
| devil's advocate {n} (debater) | :: محامي الشيطان {m} |
| devoid {adj} (empty, completely without) | :: خالي /ḵālī/, فارغ /fāriḡ/ |
| Devon {prop} (English county) | :: ديفون /dyfwn/ |
| devote {v} (to commit oneself for a certain matter) | :: توفر على, صرف همته إلى |
| devotion {n} (the act or state of devoting or being devoted) | :: تفرغ {m} /tafarruḡ/ |
| devout {adj} (devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties) | :: متدين {m} /mutadayyin/ |
| devshirme {n} (collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam) | :: دوشيرمة /dawšīrma/ |
| dew {n} (moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc) | :: ندى {m} /nadā/, طل {m} /ṭall/, سقيط {m} /saqīṭ/ |
| dewclaw {n} (dewclaw) | :: زمعة |
| Dhaka {prop} (capital of Bangladesh) | :: دكا {f} /dakā/ |
| dharma {n} (principle that orders the universe) | :: دارما /dārmā/ |
| dhikr {n} ((Islam) an Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually) | :: ذكر {m} /ḏikr/ |
| Dhivehi {n} (an Indo-Aryan language) | :: لغة الديفيهي {f} /luḡat ad-dīvēhī/ |
| Dhofari {adj} (pertaining to Dhofar) | :: ظفاري |
| Dhofari {n} (person from Dhofar) | :: ظفاري {m}, ظفارية {f} |
| dhuhr {n} (noon prayer) | :: صلاة الظهر {f} /ṣalāt aẓ-ẓuhr/, ظهر {m} /ẓuhr/ |
| Dhul Hijjah {prop} (12th month of the Islamic calendar) | :: ذو الحجة {m} (ðu l-ħíjja) |
| diabetes {n} (A group of metabolic diseases) | :: السكري {m} /as-sakkariyy/ |
| diabetes mellitus {n} (medical disorder) | :: مرض السكر |
| diachronic linguistics {n} (historical linguistics) SEE: historical linguistics | :: |
| diacritic {n} (diacritical mark) SEE: diacritical mark | :: |
| diacritical mark {n} (symbol) | :: شكل {m} /šakl/, شكلة {f} /šakla/ |
| diagnose {v} (determine the root cause of) | :: يشخص المرض /yoshakhiso al-maradha/ |
| diagnosis {n} (identification of the nature and cause of an illness) | :: تشخيص {m} /tašḵīṣ/ |
| diagonal {n} (slash) SEE: slash | :: |
| diagonal {adj} (geometry: joining two nonadjacent vertices) | :: مائل /māʾil/, قطري /quṭriyy/ |
| diagonal matrix {n} (type of matrix) | :: مصفوفة قطرية {f} /maṣfuwfa(t) quṭriyya/ |
| diagram {n} (plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show workings or parts relationships) | :: مخطط {m} /muḵaṭaṭ/, رسم إيضاحي {m} /rasm ʾīḍāḥiyy/ |
| diagram {n} (graph or chart) | :: رسم بياني {m} /rasm bayāniyy/, مخطط {m} /muḵaṭaṭ/, خطة {f} /ḵiṭṭa/ |
| dial {n} (sundial) SEE: sundial | :: |
| dial {n} (panel on a radio; knob that is turned to change the wavelength) | :: مؤشر {m} /muʾaššir/ |
| dial {n} (clock face) SEE: clock face | :: |
| dialect {n} (particular variety of a language) | :: لهجة {f} /lahja/ (Egyptian Arabic: lahga), عامية {f} /ʿāmmiyya/, دارجة {f} /dārija/ |
| dialectology {n} (the study of dialects) | :: علم اللهجات {m} /ʿilm al-lahjāt/ |
| dialog {n} (conversation or other discourse between individuals) SEE: dialogue | :: |
| dialog {n} (verbal part of a literary or dramatic work) SEE: dialogue | :: |
| dialog {n} (literary form resembling a conversation) SEE: dialogue | :: |
| dialog {n} (computing: dialogue box) SEE: dialogue | :: |
| dialog box {n} (window that prompts the user to enter information) | :: مربع حوار {m} /murabbaʿ ḥiwār/, صندوق حوار {m} /ṣundūq ḥiwār/ |
| dialogue {n} (conversation or other discourse between individuals) | :: حوار {m} /ḥiwār/, محادثة {f} /muḥādaṯa/, مكالمة {f} /mukālama/ |
| dialogue {n} (verbal part of a literary or dramatic work) | :: حوار {m} /ḥiwār/ |
| diameter {n} (line) | :: قطر {m} /quṭr/ |
| diameter {n} (length of this line) | :: قطر {m} /quṭr/ |
| diamond {n} (rhombus) SEE: rhombus | :: |
| diamond {n} (uncountable: mineral) | :: ألماس {m} /ʾalmās/ |
| diamond {n} (gemstone) | :: ماس {m} /mās/, ألماسة {f} /ʾalmāsa/ [singulative], ألماس {m} /ʾalmās/ [collective] |
| diamond {n} (card games: card of the diamonds suit) | :: الديناري {m} /ad-dīnāriyy/ |
| diamonds {n} (one of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦) | :: الديناري {m} /ad-dīnāriyy/ |
| diaper {n} (absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent) | :: حفاض {f} /ḥifāḍ/, حفاظ {f} /ḥifāẓ/, فوطة الطفل {f} /fūṭat aṭ-ṭifl/ |
| diaphragm {n} (anatomy: sheet of muscle separating thorax from abdomen) | :: حجاب حاجز {m} /ḥijāb ḥājiz/ |
| diarrhea {n} (medical condition) | :: إسهال {m} /ʾishāl/ |
| diary {n} (daily log of experiences) | :: دفتر يوميات /daftaru yawmiyyātin/; يوميات {f-p} /yawmiyyāt/; دفتر مذكرات /daftaru muḏakkirātin/; مذكرات /muḏakkirāt/ |
| diaspora {n} (dispersion of a group of people) | :: شتات /šatāt/ |
| Diaspora {prop} (dispersion of a group of people) SEE: diaspora | :: |
| dice {n} (polyhedron used in games of chance) SEE: die | :: |
| dick {n} (slang: penis) | :: زب {m} /zub/, زبر {m} /zubr/, أير {m} /ʾayr/ |
| dickhead {n} (glans penis) SEE: glans penis | :: |
| dictate {n} (an order or command) | :: إملاء |
| dictate {v} (to order, command, control) | :: أملى /ʾamlā/ |
| dictate {v} (to speak in order for someone to write down the words) | :: أملى /ʾamlā/, أكتب /ʾaktaba/ |
| dictation {n} (the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words) | :: إملاء {m} /ʾimlāʾ/ |
| dictation {n} (an activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down) | :: إملاء {m} /ʾimlāʾ/ |
| dictator {n} (totalitarian leader of a dictatorship) | :: دكتاتور {m} /diktātūr/ |
| dictatorship {n} (a government led by a dictator) | :: دكتاتورية {f} /diktātōriyya/, ديكتاتورية {f} /diktātōriyya/ |
| dictionary {n} (publication that explains the meanings of an ordered list of words) | :: قاموس {m} /qāmūs/, معجم {m} /muʿjam/ |
| didgeridoo {n} (Australian musical instrument) | :: ديدجيريدو {m} /dīdjīrīdū/ |
| die {v} (to stop living) | :: مات /māta/, توفي /tuwuffiya/ |
| die {n} (polyhedron used in games of chance) | :: زهر الطاولة {m} /zahr aṭ-ṭāwila/, زهر النرد {m} /zahr an-nard/, كعب {m} /kaʿb/ |
| diesel {n} (fuel) | :: ديزل {m} /dīzal/, ديزل {m} /dīzel/, سولار {m} /sōlār/ |
| diet {n} (controlled regimen of food) | :: حمية {f} /ḥimya/, نظام غذائي {m} /niẓām ḡiḏāʾiyy/ |
| diet {n} (council of leaders) | :: برلمان {m} /barlamān/, مجلس {m} /majlis/ |
| differ {v} (not to have the same characteristics) | :: اختلف /iḵtalafa/ |
| differ {v} (to have diverging opinions, disagree) | :: اختلف /iḵtalafa/ |
| difference {n} (quality of being different) | :: فرق {m} /farq/, اختلاف {m} /iḵtilāf/, تفاوت {m} /tafāwut/ |
| different {adj} (not the same) | :: مختلف /muḵtalif/ |
| different {adj} (unlike most others) | :: آخر /ʾāāḵar/ |
| difficult {adj} (hard, not easy) | :: صعب /ṣaʿb/ |
| difficulty {n} (state of being difficult) | :: صعوبة {f} /ṣuʿūba/ |
| difficulty {n} (obstacle) | :: صعوبة {f} /ṣuʿūba/ |
| dig {v} (to move hard-packed earth out of the way) | :: حفر /ḥafara/ |
| digest {v} (to separate food in the alimentary canal) | :: هضم /haḍama/ |
| digestion {n} (process in gastrointestinal tract) | :: هضم {m} /haḍm/ |
| digestive {n} (substance that aids digestion) | :: جهاز هضمي {m} /jihāz haḍmiyy/ |
| digger {n} (spade (playing card)) SEE: spade | :: |
| digit {n} (finger or toe) | :: إصبع {m} /ʾiṣbaʿ/ |
| digit {n} (numeral) | :: رقم {m} /raqm/ |
| digital {adj} (representing discrete values) | :: رقمي /raqamī/ |
| digital {adj} (of or relating to computers) | :: رقمي /raqamī/ |
| digital camera {n} (electronic camera) | :: كاميرا رقمية {f} /kamirā raqmiyya/ |
| digital rights management {n} | :: إدارة الحقوق الرقمية /ʾidāratu l-ḥuqūqi r-raqamiyya/ |
| digital television {n} (broadcasting) | :: تلفزة رقمية {f} /talfaza raqmiyya/ |
| digitate {v} (to point out) | :: صبع /ṣabaʿa/ |
| digitate {v} (to spread in a finger-like manner.) | :: تصبع /taṣabbaʿa/ |
| diglossia {n} (the coexistence of two closely related native languages) | :: ازدواجية لغوية {f} /izdiwājiyya luḡawiyya/, ديجلوسيا {f} /diglūsyā/ |
| dignity {n} (quality or state) | :: كرامة {f} /karāma/ |
| digs {n} (clothes) SEE: clothes | :: |
| dilation {n} (delay) SEE: delay | :: |
| dildo {n} (artificial phallus) | :: قضيب اصطناعي {m} /qaḍīb iṣṭināʿiyy/ |
| Dili {prop} (capital) | :: ديلي {m} /dīlī/ |
| diligence {n} (qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, perseverance) | :: اجتهاد {m} /ijtihād/ |
| diligent {adj} (hard-working and focused) | :: مجتهد /mujtahid/ |
| diligently {adv} (in a diligent manner) | :: بجد /bi-jidd/ |
| dill {n} (fool) SEE: fool | :: |
| dill {n} (herb of the species Anethum graveolens) | :: شبث {m} /šibiṯṯ/, شبت {m} /šibitt/ |
| dilution {n} (process of making something dilute) | :: تخفيف {m} /taḵfīf/ |
| dim-bulb {adj} (slow-witted, stupid) SEE: stupid | :: |
| dimension {n} (measure of spatial extent) | :: بعد {m} /buʿd/ |
| diminish {v} (To make smaller) | :: خس /ḵassa/ |
| diminutive {adj} (very small) | :: ضئيل /ḍaʾīl/ |
| diminutive {adj} (serving to diminish) | :: تصغيري /taṣḡīriyy/ |
| diminutive {n} (grammar: word form expressing smallness) | :: تصغير {m} /taṣḡīr/ |
| dimple {n} (small depression or indentation in generic surface) | :: نقرة {f} /nuqra/ |
| dimple {n} (skin depression, especially at corners of the mouth) | :: غمازة {f} /ḡammāza/ |
| dinar {n} (official currency of several countries) | :: دينار {m} /dīnār/, [in Jordan] ليرة {f} /līra/ |
| dine {v} (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) | :: ليتعشى, ليتعشى, لاجل العشاء |
| ding-a-ling {n} (dick) SEE: dick | :: |
| dining room {n} (room, in a home or hotel, where meals are eaten) | :: غرفة الطعام {f} /ḡarfat aṭ-ṭaʿām/, مطعم {m} /maṭʿam/ |
| dining table {n} (table in the dining room on which meals are served) | :: سفرة {f} /sufra/ |
| dinner {n} (main meal of the day) | :: عشاء {m} /ʿašāʾ/ |
| dinner {n} (midday meal) | :: غداء {m} /ḡadāʾ/ |
| dinner table {n} (table on which dinner is served) | :: سفرة /sufra/ |
| dinosaur {n} (extinct reptile) | :: ديناصور {m} /dīnāṣawr/ |
| diocese {n} (region administered by a bishop) | :: أبرشية {f} /ʾabrašiyya/ |
| diode {n} (electronic device) | :: صمام ثنائي {m} /ṣimām ṯunāʾiyy/, ثنائي ديود {m} /ṯanāʾī diyūd/ |
| diphtheria {n} (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract) | :: خناق {m} /ḵunāq/ |
| diphthong {n} (complex vowel sound) | :: مصوت مزدوج /muṣawwit muzdawij/ |
| diploma {n} (certificate) | :: شهادة {f} /šahāda/ |
| diplomacy {n} (art of conducting international relations) | :: دبلوماسية {f} /diblūmāsiyya/ |
| diplomat {n} (person who is accredited to represent a government) | :: دبلوماسي {m} /diblūmāsiyy/ |
| diplomatic {adj} (concerning relationships between governments) | :: دبلوماسي {m} /diblūmāsiyy/ |
| diplomatics {n} (science of authenticating, dating, and interpreting old official documents) | :: علم الوثائق |
| diplomatist {n} (diplomat) SEE: diplomat | :: |
| diptote {n} (a noun which has only two cases) | :: ممنوع من الصرف {m} /mamnūʿ mina ṣ-ṣarf/, غير منصرف {m} /ḡayr munṣarif/ |
| direct {v} (to be in charge of the direction of a film) | :: أخرج /ʾaḵraja/ |
| direct {v} (to be in charge of the direction of a play) | :: أخرج /ʾaḵraja/ |
| direct current {n} (electric current in which the electrons flow in one direction, but may vary with time) | :: تيار مستمر {m} /tayyār mustamir/ |
| direction {n} (indication of the point toward which an object is moving) | :: اتجاه {m} /ittijāh/ |
| direction {n} (work of the director in cinema or theater) | :: إخراج {m} /ʾiḵrājun/ |
| directions {n} (direction) SEE: direction | :: |
| directions {n} (instructions) | :: إرشادات |
| directly {adv} (in a direct manner) | :: مباشرة /mubāšaratan/ |
| directly {adv} (immediately) SEE: immediately | :: |
| director {n} (supervisor, manager, see also: film director) | :: مدير {m} /mudīr/, مديرة {f} /mudīra/; مخرج {m} /muḵrij/ [film] |
| dirge {n} (mournful poem or piece of music) | :: ترنيمة جنائزية {f} /tarnīma(t) janāʾiziyya/ |
| dirham {n} (unit of currency) | :: درهم {m} /dirham/ |
| dirigible {n} (a self-propelled airship that can be steered) | :: سفينة هوائية {f} /safīna(t) hawāʾiyya/ |
| dirt {n} (soil or earth) | :: تربة {f} /turba/ |
| dirt {n} (stain or spot (on clothes etc)) | :: بقعة {f} /buqʿa/, قذارة {f} /qaḏāra/ |
| dirty {adj} (covered with or containing dirt) | :: قذر /qaḏir/, وسخ /wasiḵ/ |
| dirty {v} (to make dirty) | :: وسخ /wassaḵa/ |
| disadvantage {n} (weakness) | :: سيئة {f} |
| disagree {v} | :: عارض /ʿāraḍa/ |
| disallow {v} (to refuse to allow) SEE: forbid | :: |
| disappear {v} (to vanish) | :: اختفى /iḵtafā/ |
| disappear {v} (to make vanish) | :: أخفى /ʾaḵfā/ |
| disappointed {adj} (defeated of hope or expectation) | :: خائب الأمل /ḵāʾib al-ʾamal/ |
| disappointment {n} (emotion) | :: خيبة أمل {f} /ḵaybat ʾamal/ |
| disapprove {v} (to refuse to approve) SEE: reject | :: |
| disarmament {n} (the reduction of military forces and armaments) | :: نزع السلاح {m} /nazʿ as-silāḥ/ |
| disaster {n} (unexpected catastrophe causing physical damage, etc.) | :: كارثة {f} /kāriṯa/ |
| disaster area {n} (area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster) | :: منطقة منكوبة |
| disbelieve {v} (not believe) | :: كفر /kafara/, كذب /kaḏḏaba/ |
| disbeliever {n} (one who does not believe) | :: كافر /kāfir/ |
| Disbelievers {prop} (109th sura of the Qur'an) | :: سورة الكافرون |
| disc {n} (disk) SEE: disk | :: |
| discard {v} (to discard, set aside) SEE: remove | :: |
| discipline {n} (controlled behaviour, self-control) | :: انضباط {m} /inḍibāṭ/, تهذيب {m} /tahḏīb/ |
| discipline {n} (enforced compliance or control) | :: ترتيب {m} /tartīb/ |
| discipline {n} (punishment) | :: تهذيب {m} /tahḏīb/ |
| discipline {n} (specific branch or knowledge or learning) | :: فرع من المعرفة {m} /farʿ mina l-maʿrifa/ |
| discipline {n} (category in which a certain activity belongs) | :: نظام {m} /niẓām/ |
| disc jockey {n} (disc jockey) | :: دي جي {m} /dī jey/, دي جاي {m} /dī jay/ |
| disco {n} (discotheque) | :: ديسكو {m} /dīskū/ |
| discotheque {n} (nightclub) | :: ديسكو {m} /dīskū/ |
| discount {n} (reduction in price) | :: خصم {m} /ḵaṣm/, تخفيض {m} /taḵfīḍ/, حسم {m} /ḥasm/ |
| discover {v} (find something for the first time) | :: اكتشف /iktašafa/ |
| discovery {n} (something discovered) | :: اكتشاف {m} /iktišāf/ |
| discovery {n} (the discovering of new things) | :: اكتشاف {m} /iktišāf/ |
| discrepancy {n} (inconsistency) | :: تضارب {m} /taḍārub/, تناقض {m} /tanāquḍ/ |
| discriminate {v} (to distinguish) | :: ميز /mayyaza/ |
| discrimination {n} (the act of making a distinction, noting differences between things) | :: تفريق /tafrīq/ |
| discrimination {n} (distinct treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage) | :: تمييز {m} /tamyīz/ |
| discus {n} (round plate-like object for throwing) | :: قرص {m} /qurṣ/ |
| discuss {v} (to converse or debate concerning a particular topic) | :: ناقش /nāqaša/, بحث /baḥaṯa/ |
| discussion {n} (conversation or debate) | :: مناقشة {f} /munāqaša/ |
| disdain {n} (feeling of contempt or scorn) | :: ازدراء {m} /izdirāʾ/ |
| disease {n} (an abnormal condition of the body causing discomfort or dysfunction) | :: مرض /maraḍ/, داء {m} /dāʾ/, سقم {m} /suqm/ |
| diseased {adj} (Affected with of suffering from disease) | :: مريض |
| disgrace {n} (condition of being out of favor) | :: عار {m} /ʿār/, خزي {m} /ḵizy/, خزى {m} /ḵazan/ |
| disgust {n} (an intense dislike or repugnance) | :: إشمئزاز {m} /ʾišmiʾzāz/ |
| disgusting {adj} (repulsive, distasteful) | :: مقرف {m} /muqrif/ |
| dish {n} (vessel for holding/serving food) | :: طبق {m} /ṭabaq/ |
| dish {n} (contents of such a vessel) | :: طبق {m} /ṭabaq/ |
| dishcloth {n} (for drying) | :: منشفة {f} /minšafa/, فوطة {f} /fūṭa/ |
| dishonest {adj} (not honest) | :: مخادع /muḵādiʿ/, غشاش /ḡašāš/ |
| dishtowel {n} (a cloth or towel used to dry dishes) SEE: dishcloth | :: |
| dishwasher {n} (machine) | :: غسالة صحون {f} /ḡassālat ṣuḥūn/ |
| disinfectant {n} (A substance which kills germs and/or viruses) | :: مطهر {m} /muṭahhir/ |
| disinformation {n} (intentionally false information) | :: معلومات مضللة {f-p} /maʿlūmāt muḍallila/ |
| disk {n} (a thin, flat, circular plate) | :: قرص {m} /qurṣ/ |
| disk {n} (a vinyl phonograph/gramophone record) | :: أسطوانة {f} /ʾusṭuwāna/ |
| diskette {n} (small, flexible, magnetic disk for storage and retrieval of data) SEE: floppy disk | :: |
| dislike {v} (not to like something) | :: كره /kariha/ |
| dismember {v} (remove limbs) | :: بتر /batara/, فكك /fakkaka/ |
| dismiss {v} (to discharge) | :: طرد /ṭarada/, أقال /ʾaqāla/ |
| dismissal {n} (deprivation of office) | :: إقالة {f} /ʾiqāla/ |
| Disney {prop} (surname) | :: ديزني /dīznī/ |
| Disney {prop} (Walt Disney Company) | :: شركة والت ديزني {f} /šarika(t) wālt dīznī/ |
| Disneyland {prop} (Disneyland, theme park) | :: ديزني لاند {m} /dīznī lānd/ |
| disobedience {n} (refusal to obey) | :: عصيان {m} /ʿiṣyān/ |
| disobedient {adj} (not obedient) | :: عاص /ʿāṣin/ |
| disobey {v} (to refuse to obey an order) | :: عصى /ʿaṣā/ |
| disobey {v} (to refuse to obey) | :: عصى /ʿaṣā/ |
| disorder {n} (absence of order) | :: اختلال {m} /iḵtilāl/, اضطراب {m} /iḍṭirāb/ |
| disown {v} (to refuse to own) | :: تبرأ /tabarraʾa/ |
| dispatch {n} (dismissal) SEE: dismissal | :: |
| dispirited {adj} (without spirit) SEE: despondent | :: |
| displacement {n} (physics: vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component) | :: إزاحة /ʾizāḥa/ |
| display {n} (spectacle) | :: إظهار {m} /ʾiẓhār/, عرض {m} /ʿarḍ/ |
| display {n} (electronic screen) | :: شاشة {f} /šāša/ |
| disprove {v} (to refute) | :: دحض /daḥaḍa/ |
| disregard {v} (disregard) SEE: neglect | :: |
| disregard {n} (not paying attention or caring about) | :: إهمال /ʾihmāl/ |
| dissemination {n} (act of disseminating) | :: نشر - بث |
| dissident {n} (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws) | :: منشق {m} /munšaq/ |
| distaff {n} (device to which fibres are attached for temporary storage) | :: عرناس {m} /ʿarnās/, ركة {f} /rukka/ |
| distance {n} (amount of space between two points) | :: مسافة {f} /masāfa/, بعد {m} /buʿd/ |
| distant {adj} (far off) | :: بعيد /baʿīd/ |
| distilled water {n} (water that has been purified by distillation) | :: ماء مقطر |
| distort {v} (to bring something out of shape) | :: يشوه /yoshawweh/ |
| distress {n} ((cause of) discomfort) | :: محنة {f} /miḥna/ |
| distribution {n} (act of distribution or being distributed) | :: توزيع {m} /tawzīʿun/ |
| district {n} (administrative division) | :: مقاطعة {f} /muqāṭaʿa/ |
| district {n} (area or region) | :: منطقة {f} /minṭaqa/ |
| District of Columbia {prop} (federal capital of the United States of America) | :: مقاطعة كولومبيا {f} /muqāṭaʿat kulumbiyā/ |
| ditch {n} (trench) | :: خندق {m} /ḵandaq/, أخدود {m} /ʾuḵdūd/, قنال {m} /qanāl/, قناة {f} /qanāh/ |
| ditto {adv} (likewise) SEE: likewise | :: |
| diurnal {adj} (happening during daylight; primarily active during the day) | :: نهاري /nahāriyyun/ |
| divan {n} (sofa) | :: ديوان {m} /dīwān/ |
| divan {n} (council) | :: ديوان {m} /dīwān/ |
| divan {n} (collection of poems) | :: ديوان {m} /dīwān/ |
| dive {v} (to swim under water) | :: غاص /ḡāṣa/ |
| dive {v} (to jump into water) | :: غطس /ḡaṭsa/, يقفز الى الماء |
| diver {n} (someone who dives) | :: غطاس {m} /ḡaṭṭāsun/, غواص {m} /ḡawwāṣun/ |
| diverse {adj} (various) | :: متنوع /mutanawwiʿ/ |
| diversity {n} (quality of being diverse; difference) | :: تنوع {m} /tanawwuʿ/, تعددية {f} /taʿaddudiyya/ |
| divertimento {n} (eighteenth-century composition in several short movements) | :: ديفرتمنتو {m} /dīfirtimintū/, دفرتمنتو {m} /difirtimintū/ |
| divest {v} (undress) SEE: undress | :: |
| divide {v} (split into two or more parts) | :: قسم /qassama/ |
| divide {v} (calculate quotient) | :: قسم /qassama/ |
| divide and conquer {v} (Divide and conquer) | :: فرق تسد /farriq tasud/ |
| dividend {n} (arithmetic: a number or expression) | :: مقسوم {m} /maqsūm/ |
| dividend {n} (finance: a payment of money by a company to its shareholders) | :: حصة {f} /ḥiṣṣa/ |
| divine {n} (a deity) SEE: deity | :: |
| divine {adj} (of or pertaining to a god) | :: إلهي /ʾilāhiyy/ |
| divine {adj} (eternal, holy or otherwise godlike) | :: إلهي /ʾilāhiyy/ |
| divine {n} (theologian, cleric) | :: رجل دين {m} /rajulu dīnin/, رجال دين {m-p} /rijālu dīnin/ |
| Divine Liturgy {n} (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic eucharistic service) | :: قداس إلهي {m} /quddās ʾilāhiyy/ |
| diving {n} (sport of jumping head first into water) | :: غطس |
| diving board {n} (springboard) SEE: springboard | :: |
| divinity {n} (deity) SEE: deity | :: |
| divinity {n} (godhood, state of being God or a god) | :: ألوهية {f} /ʾulūhiyya/ |
| division {n} (arithmetic: process of dividing a number by another) | :: قسمة {f} /qisma/ |
| division {n} (arithmetic: calculation involving this process) | :: قسمة {f} /qismatun/ |
| division {n} (large military unit) | :: فرقة {f} /firqa/ |
| division {n} (disagreement; a difference of viewpoint) | :: فرقة {f} /furqa/ |
| divorce {n} (legal dissolution of a marriage) | :: طلاق {m} /ṭalāq/, تطليق {m} /taṭlīq/ |
| divorce {v} (to legally dissolve a marriage) | :: طلق /ṭallaqa/ |
| divorce {v} (to end one's own marriage) | :: أطلق /ʾaṭlaqa/ |
| Divorce {prop} (65th sura of the Qur'an) | :: سورة الطلاق |
| divulge {v} (to make public) | :: أفشى /ʾafšā/ |
| divvy up {v} (divide) SEE: divide | :: |
| Diwali {prop} (Hindu festival of lights) | :: ديوالي /dīwālī/ |
| dizziness {n} (state of being dizzy) | :: دوار {m} /duwār/ |
| dizzy {adj} (having a sensation of turning around) | :: دائخ {m} /dāʾiḵ/ |
| dizzyness {n} (dizziness) SEE: dizziness | :: |
| DJ {n} (person who selects and plays recorded music) SEE: disc jockey | :: |
| Djibouti {prop} (Republic of Djibouti) | :: جيبوتي {m} /jībūtiyy/ |
| Djiboutian {n} (person) | :: جيبوتي {m} /jībūtiyy/, جيبوتية {f} /jībūtiyya/ |
| Djiboutian {adj} (pertaining to Djibouti) | :: جيبوتي /jībūtiyy/ |
| déjà vu {n} (something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before) | :: ديجا ڤو /deja vū/ |
| Dmitry {prop} (transliteration of Дмитрий) | :: دميتري {m} /dmitrī/ |
| DMV {prop} (Department of Motor Vehicles) | :: إدارة المركبات {f} /ʾidāra(t) al-markabāt/ |
| DNA {n} (abbreviation of deoxyribonucleic acid (see deoxyribonucleic acid for full forms)) | :: دنا {f} /dinā/ |
| Dönmeh {n} (Sabbatean crypto-Jews) | :: دونمة /dūnma/ |
| do {v} (perform, execute) | :: فعل /faʿala/, عمل /ʿamila/ |
| do {n} (tonic of the C major scale) | :: دو {m} /dū/, دو {m} /dō/ |
| do {n} | :: دو {m} /dū/, دو {m} /dō/ |
| do business {v} (urinate) SEE: urinate | :: |
| doctor {n} (person who has attained a doctorate) | :: دكتور {m} /duktūr/ |
| doctor {n} (veterinarian) SEE: veterinarian | :: |
| doctor {n} (medical doctor) SEE: physician | :: |
| doctorate {n} (highest degree awarded by a university faculty) | :: دكتوراة {f} /duktūrāh/ |
| doctrine {n} (belief) | :: مذهب {m} /maḏhab/ |
| document {n} (original or official paper) | :: وثيقة {f} /waṯīqa/, مستند {m} /mustanad/ |
| document {v} (to record in documents) | :: وثق /waṯṯaq/ |
| documentary {n} (documentary film) | :: فيلم وثائقي {m} /film waṯāʾiqiyy/ |
| documentation {n} (documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program) | :: وثائق {p} /waṯāʾiq/ |
| dodder {n} (parasitic plant (of about 100-170 species) of the genus Cuscuta) | :: كشوث {m} /kušūṯ/, حامول {m} /ḥāmūl/ |
| Dodoma {prop} (capital of Tanzania) | :: دودوما {f} /dudumā/ |
| doer {n} (Someone who does) | :: فاعل /fāʿil/ |
| does anyone here speak English {phrase} (does anyone here speak English?) | :: هل يوجد أحد هنا يتحدث الإنجليزية؟ /hal yūjad ʾaḥad hunā yataḥaddaṯ al-ʾingliziyya?/ |
| dog {n} (slang: man) SEE: guy | :: |
| dog {n} (animal) | :: كلب {m} /kalb/ |
| dog collar {n} (collar for a dog) | :: طوق {m} /ṭawq/ |
| doghouse {n} (kennel) SEE: kennel | :: |
| dogmatism {n} (arrogance in stating opinion) | :: عقيدية {f} /ʿaqīdiyya/, عقائدية {f} /ʿaqāʾidiyya/, اعتقادية {f} /iʿtiqādiyya/ |
| dog rose {n} (the species Rosa canina) | :: ورد الكلب {m} /ward al-kalb/, نسرين {m} /nisrīn/ |
| dog shit {n} (deceitful statements, etc) SEE: bullshit | :: |
| Dog Star {prop} (Sirius) SEE: Sirius | :: |
| Doha {prop} (capital of Qatar) | :: الدوحة {f} /ad-dawḥa/ |
| do ill {v} (to harm, to injure) SEE: harm | :: |
| dolce far niente {n} (enjoyment of idleness) | :: دولتشي فار نينتي {m} /dūltšī fār nyintī/ |
| doldrum {adj} (boring, uninteresting) SEE: boring | :: |
| doline {n} (any sinkhole) SEE: sinkhole | :: |
| doll {n} (a toy in the form of a human) | :: دمية {f} /dumya/, ألعوبة {f} /ʾulʿūba/, لعبة {f} /luʿba/ |
| dollar {n} (designation for specific currency) | :: دولار {m} /dūlār/ |
| dolly {n} (doll) SEE: doll | :: |
| dolphin {n} (aquatic mammal) | :: دلفين {m} /dulfīn/, درفيل {m} /darfīl/, دخس {m} /duḵas/ |
| domain {n} (DNS domain name) | :: مجال إنترنت {m} /majāl ʾintarnat/ |
| dome {n} (architectural element) | :: قبة {f} /qubba/ |
| domestic {adj} (of or relating to the home) | :: منزلي /manzaliyy/ |
| domestic violence {n} (violence committed in a domestic setting) | :: عنف منزلي {m} /ʿunf manzaliyy/, عنف أسري {m} /ʿunf ʾusriyy/ |
| dominate {v} (to govern, rule or control by superior authority or power) | :: سيطر /sayṭara/ |
| Dominic {prop} (male given name) | :: دومينيك {m} /dōmīnīk/ |
| Dominica {prop} (Commonwealth of Dominica) | :: دومينيكا {f} /duminikā/ |
| Dominican Republic {prop} (country in the Caribbean) | :: جمهورية الدومنيكان {f} /jumhuriyya d-duminikān/ |
| dominoes {n} (game) | :: الدومنة {f} /ad-dawmana/ |
| Domodedovo {prop} (airport in Russia) | :: دوموديدوفو {m} /dumudīdufū/ |
| don {n} (professor) SEE: professor | :: |
| Donald {prop} (male given name) | :: دونالد {m} /dūnāld/ |
| Donald Duck {prop} (Disney character) | :: بطوط {m} /baṭṭūṭ/, دونالد داك {m} /dūnald dak/ |
| donate {v} (to give away something of value) | :: تبرع /tabarraʿa/ |
| donation {n} (a voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause) | :: تبرع {m} /tabarraʿ/ |
| Donegal {prop} (county in Ireland) | :: دونيجال {m} /dūnigāl/ |
| Donetsk {prop} (city) | :: دونيتسك {m} /dunitsk/, دونيتسك {m} /donetsk/ |
| Donetsk People's Republic {prop} (secessionist state) | :: جمهورية دونيتسك الشعبية /jumhūriyyat donetsk aš-šaʿbiyya/ |
| dong {n} (currency) | :: دونغ {m} /dunḡ/, دونج {m} /dong/ |
| Dongguan {prop} (a city of China) | :: دونغقوان {m} /dunḡqwān/, دونغغوان {m} /dunḡḡwān/ |
| Dongola {prop} (city in Sudan) | :: دنقلا /dunqulā/ |
| donjon {n} (fortified tower) SEE: keep | :: |
| Don Juan {n} (a man who obsessively seduces women; a philanderer) | :: دون خوان {m} /dūn ḵuwān/ |
| donkey {n} (a domestic animal, see also: ass) | :: حمار {m} /ḥimār/ |
| donkey {n} (a fool) | :: حمار {m} /ḥimār/ |
| Donohue syndrome {n} (rare genetic disorder) | :: متلازمة دونوهيو {f} /mutalāzima(t) dūnūhiyū/ |
| donor {n} (one who donates) | :: متبرع {m} /mutabarriʿ/ |
| do not disturb {phrase} (do not disturb) | :: لا تزعج {m} /lā tuzʿij/, لا تزعجي {f} /lā tuzʿijī/, لا تزعجا {c-d} /lā tuzʿijā/, لا تزعجوا {m-p} /lā tuzʿijū/, لا تزعجن {f-p} /lā tuzʿijna/ |
| Don Quixote {prop} (the protagonist of a famous Spanish novel) | :: دون كيشوت {m} /dūn kīšūt/, دون كيخوتي {m} /dūn kīḵūtī/ |
| don't {v} (do not) | :: لا /lā/ (+ jussive of the verb) |
| don't count your chickens before they're hatched {proverb} (don't count on things if you don't have them yet) | :: لا تشتري السمك وهو في البحر بل انتظر حتى يصطاد /lā taštarī s-samaka wahuwa fī l-baḥri bali ntaẓir ḥattā yuṣṭāda/ |
| don't let the door hit you on the way out {phrase} (good riddance) SEE: good riddance | :: |
| don't mention it {phrase} (it is too trivial to warrant thanks) | :: عفوا /ʿafwan/ |
| donut {n} (deep-fried piece of dough) SEE: doughnut | :: |
| doofer {n} (remote control for a television) SEE: remote control | :: |
| doomed {adj} (certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome) | :: محكوم /mahkum/ |
| door {n} (portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle) | :: باب {m} /bāb/ (plural: أبواب {m-p} /ʾabwāb/) |
| doorbell {n} (device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence) | :: جرس الباب {m} /jaras al-bāb/ |
| door handle {n} (mechanism used to open or close a door) | :: مقبض الباب /maqbiḍ al-bāb/ |
| doorhandle {n} (door handle) SEE: door handle | :: |
| doorkeeper {n} (person in charge of an entryway) | :: بواب {m} /bawwāb/, بوابة {f} /bawwāba/ |
| doorknob {n} (circular device attached to a door, the rotation of which permits the unlatching of a door) | :: مقبض الباب {m} /miqbaḍ al-bāb/ |
| doorman {n} (man who holds open the door at the entrance to a building) | :: بواب {m} /bawwāb/ |
| doorstep {n} (threshold of a doorway) | :: عتبة الباب {f} /ʿatabatu l-bābi/ |
| dope fiend {n} (drug addict) SEE: drug addict | :: |
| Dordogne {prop} (department) | :: دوردونيي {f} /durdunīy/ |
| dormition {n} (the death and assumption of the Virgin Mary) | :: رقاد /ruqād/ |
| dormitory {n} (building or part thereof) | :: مهجع {m} /mahjaʿ/ |
| Dorothea {prop} (female given name) SEE: Dorothy | :: |
| Dorothy {prop} (female given name) | :: هبة الله {f} /hibatullah/ |
| dorsal {adj} (relating to the side in which the backbone is located) | :: ظهري /ẓahriyy/ |
| DOS {prop} (Disk Operating System) | :: دوس {m} |
| dose {n} (measured portion of medicine) | :: جرعة {f} /jurʿa/ |
| dossier {n} (a collection of papers and/or other sources) | :: ملف {m} /milaff/ |
| dot {n} (small spot or mark) | :: نقطة {f} /nuqṭa/, دوطة {f} /dūṭa/ |
| dot {n} (punctuation mark) | :: نقطة {f} /nuqṭa/, دوطة {f} /dūṭa/ |
| dot {n} (diacritical mark) | :: نقطة {f} /nuqṭa/ |
| dot {n} (dot in URL's or email addresses) | :: نقطة {f} /nuqṭa/, دوت {m} /dūt/, دوت {m} /dot/ |
| do the laundry {v} (to wash the laundry) | :: غسل ملابس /ḡasala malābis/ |
| Douaouda {prop} (A city in Algeria) | :: دواودة |
| double chin {n} (a layer of fat under the chin) | :: ذقن مزدوج /ḏiqn muzdawij/, لغد {m} /luḡd/, غبب {m} /ḡabab/ |
| double-edged sword {n} (idiomatic) | :: سيف ذو حدين {m} /sayfun ḏū ḥaddayni/ |
| double plural {n} (doubly inflected plural) | :: جمع الجمع {m} /jamʿ al-jamʿ/ |
| double room {n} (hotel room with two beds or one double bed) | :: غرفة مزدوجة {f} /ḡurfa muzdawija/ |
| double standard {n} (the situation of groups one of which is excused from following a standard) | :: كيل بمكيالين /kaylun bimikyālayni/ |
| double-u {n} (name of the letter W, w) | :: دابليو {m} /dabelyū/, دابليو {m} /dabliyū/, دوبلڤه, دوبلڥه {m} /dubleveh/ |
| doubloon {n} (former Spanish gold coin) | :: دبلون |
| doubt {v} (to lack confidence in) | :: شك /šakka/ |
| doubt {n} (disbelief or uncertainty (about something)) | :: شك {m} /šakk/ |
| douche {n} (a jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally) | :: حمام {m} /ḥamām/ |
| dough {n} (mix of flour and other ingredients) | :: عجين {m} /ʿajīn/, عجينة {f} /ʿajīna/ |
| doughnut {n} (deep-fried piece of dough or batter) | :: دونات {m} /dūnāt/, شفنج {m} /šifanj/ [Moroccan doughnut] |
| doum palm {n} (Hyphaene thebaica) | :: مقل {m} /muql/, دوم {m} /dawm/ |
| dove {n} (bird of the family Columbidae) | :: يمامة {f} /yamāma/, حمامة {f} /ḥamāma/ |
| dovetail {n} (woodworking) | :: تعشيقة {f} /taʿšīqa/ (pl. تعاشيق) |
| dovetail {v} (to unite with a dovetail joint) | :: عشق /ʿaššaqa/ |
| dovetail {v} (fit together well (ditransitive)) | :: ركب /rakkaba/ |
| dovetail {v} (fit together well (transitive)) | :: تواصل /-/ مع, ترابط /-/ بين /tarābaṭa bayna/, انسجم /-/ مع /insajama maʿa/, توافق /-/ مع /tawāfaqa maʿa/ |
| down {adv} (from a high to a low position, downwards) | :: تحت /taḥta/, تحت /taḥt/ |
| down {prep} (from one end to another) | :: حتى /ḥatā/, إلى /ʾilā/ |
| down {v} (to drop) | :: سقط |
| downhill {adj} (easy) SEE: easy | :: |
| downing {n} (defeat) SEE: defeat | :: |
| download {n} (file transfer to the local computer) | :: تنزيل {m} /tanzīl/ |
| download {v} (to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one) | :: نزل /nazzala/ |
| downplay {v} (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential) | :: قلل /qallala/ |
| downpour {n} (heavy rain) | :: وابل {m} /wābil/, مطر غزير {m} /maṭar ḡazīr/, شؤبوب {m} /šuʾbūb/ |
| down quark {n} (down quark) | :: كوارك سفلي {m} /kuwarku sufliyy/ |
| Down's syndrome {prop} (condition caused by chromosomal deficiency) SEE: Down syndrome | :: |
| downstream {adv} (Following the path of a river or stream) | :: مع التيار |
| Down syndrome {prop} (condition caused by chromosomal deficiency) | :: متلازمة داون {f} /mutalāzima(t) dāwn/ |
| dowry {n} (property or payment given at time of marriage) | :: دوطة {f} /dūṭa/, مهر {m} /mahr/ |
| do you accept credit cards {phrase} (do you accept credit cards?) | :: هل تقبلون ببطاقات الائتمان؟ /hal taqbalūna bi-biṭāqāt al-iʾtimān?/ |
| do you believe in God {phrase} (do you believe in God?) | :: هل تؤمن بالله؟ /hal tuʾminu bi-l-lāhi?/ [to a man], هل تؤمنين بالله؟ /hal tuʾminīna bi-l-lāhi?/ [to a woman] |
| do you have a menu in English {phrase} (phrase) | :: هل لديك قائمة في اللغة الإنجليزية؟ /hal ladayka qāʾima li-l-luḡa l-ʾinglīziyya?/ |
| do you have children {phrase} (do you have children?) | :: هل لديك أطفال؟ /hal ladayk ʾaṭfāl?/ |
| do you know {phrase} (do you know? (of knowledge)) | :: [to a man] هل تعرف؟ /hal taʿrif?/, [to a woman] هل تعرفين؟ /hal taʿrifīn?/ |
| do you speak English {phrase} (do you speak English? (English specifically)) | :: هل تتكلم بالإنجليزية؟ /hal tatakallamu bi-l-ʾinjlīziyya?/ [to a male], هل تتكلمين بالإنجليزية؟ /hal tatakallamīn bi-l-ʾinjlīziyya?/ [to a female] |
| do you speak English {phrase} (do you speak...? (fill with the name of the current foreign language)) | :: هل تتكلم بالعربية؟ /hal tatakallam bi-l-ʿarabiyya?/ [to a male], هل تتكلمين بالعربية؟ /hal tatakallamīn bi-l-ʿarabiyya?/ [to a female] |
| doze {v} (bulldoze) SEE: bulldoze | :: |
| dozen {n} (twelve) | :: دزينة {f} /dazzīna/, دستة {f} /dasta/ |
| DPRK {prop} (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) SEE: Democratic People's Republic of Korea | :: |
| drachma {n} (currency) | :: دراخما {f} /dirāḵmā/ |
| Draco {prop} (constellation) | :: تنين {m} /tinnīn/ |
| draconian {adj} (severe, oppressive or strict) | :: شديد القسوة /šadīd al-quswa/ |
| draft {n} (current of air coming in) | :: مسودة {f} /musawwada/ |
| draft {n} (early version of a written work) | :: مسودة {f} /musawwada/ |
| draft {v} (to write a first version) | :: سود /sawwada/ |
| drag {n} (street) SEE: street | :: |
| dragoman {n} (an interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages) | :: ترجمان {m} /turjumān/ |
| dragon {n} (mythical creature) | :: تنين {m} /tinnīn/ |
| dragon {n} (lizard of the genus Draco) SEE: Draco | :: |
| dragon {n} (constellation Draco) SEE: Draco | :: |
| dragonfly {n} (insect of the infraorder Anisoptera) | :: يعسوب {m} /yaʿsūb/ |
| dragon fruit {n} (fruit) | :: فاكهة تنين {f} /fākihat tinnīn/ |
| dragon's wort {n} (tarragon) SEE: tarragon | :: |
| dragonwort {n} (a perennial herb of Greece and the Balkans, Dracunculus vulgaris) | :: لوف الحية {m} /lūf al-ḥayya/, لوف الجعد {m} /lūf al-jaʿd/, لوف جعدي {m} /lūf jaʿdiyy/, لوف أرقط {m} /lūf ʾarqaṭ/, لوف كبير {m} /lūf kabīr/, صراخة {f} /ṣarrāḵa/ [Al-Andalus], فيلجوش {m} /fīljūš/ [obsolete], طرقنطية {m} /ṭurqunṭiya/ / طرقنطية {f} /ṭarqinṭiya/ [obsolete], خبز الغراب {m} /ḵubz al-ḡurāb/ [obsolete], دراقنطيون {m} /drāqunṭiyūn/ [obsolete], قلبريالة {f} /qulubriyālla/ [Al-Andalus] |
| dragoon {n} (horse soldier) | :: فارس {m} /fāris/ |
| dram {n} (Greek weight) SEE: drachma | :: |
| drama {n} (composition) | :: دراما {f} /drāmā/, مسرحية {f} /masraḥiyya/ |
| drama {n} (brought through the media) | :: مسلسل {m} /musalsal/ |
| drama {n} (theatrical plays) | :: دراما {f} /drāmā/, مسرحية {f} /masraḥiyya/ |
| drape {n} (curtain, drapery) SEE: curtain | :: |
| draper {n} (one who sells cloths) | :: بزاز {m} /bazzāz/ |
| draughts {n} (game for two players) | :: داما {f} /dāmā/, دامة {f} /dāma/, ضامة {f} /ḍāma/ |
| draughtsman {n} (one who drinks drams) SEE: tippler | :: |
| draw {v} (to produce a picture) | :: رسم /rasama/ |
| draw {v} (to pull out) | :: سحب /saḥaba/, جر /jarra/ |
| draw {n} (tie as a result of a game) | :: تعادل {m} /taʿādul/ |
| draw {v} (to cause) SEE: cause | :: |
| draw {v} (to inhale) SEE: inhale | :: |
| drawback {n} (a disadvantage) | :: عائق {m} /ʿāʾiq/ |
| drawer {n} (open-topped box in a cabinet used for storing) | :: جارور {m} /jārūr/, درج {m} /durj/ |
| drawer {n} (artist who primarily makes drawings) | :: رسام {m} /rassām/, رسامة {f} /rassāma/ |
| drawers {n} (plural of drawer) SEE: drawer | :: |
| drawing {n} (picture, likeness, diagram or representation) | :: رسم {m} /rasm/ |
| dreadful {adv} (causing dread) | :: فظيع {m} |
| dreadnought {n} (battleship) | :: دريدنوت |
| dream {n} (imaginary events seen while sleeping) | :: حلم {m} /ḥulm/, رؤيا {f} /ruʾyā/, منام {m} /manāmun/, منامات {m-p} |
| dream {n} (hope or wish) | :: حلم {m} /ḥulmun/, أحلام {m-p} /ʾaḥlāmun/ |
| dream {v} (see imaginary events while sleeping) | :: حلم /ḥalama/ |
| dream {v} (to hope, to wish) | :: حلم /ḥalama/ |
| dreamcatcher {n} (decorative Native American object) | :: ملاحق الأحلام {m} /mulāḥiq al-ʾaḥlām/ |
| dreamer {n} (ladybird) SEE: ladybird | :: |
| dreamer {n} (one who dreams) | :: حالم {m} /ḥālim/ |
| Dresden {prop} (capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony) | :: دريسدن {f} /d(e)rēsden/ |
| dress {v} (to clothe oneself) | :: لبس /labisa/ |
| dress {n} (item of clothing worn by a woman) | :: ثوب {m} /ṯawb/, لباس {m} /libās/, فستان {m} /fustān/, رداء {m} /ridāʾ/; San'ani Yemeni Arabic: زنه {m} /zannah/ |
| dress {n} (apparel) | :: كسوة {f} /kaswa/ |
| dresser {n} (bedroom furniture) | :: كومودينو /komudino/ |
| dressing room {n} | :: غرفة الملابس {f} /ḡurfa(t) al-malābis/ |
| drill {n} (tool) | :: مثقاب /miṯqāb/ |
| drink {v} (consume liquid through the mouth) | :: شرب /šariba/ |
| drink {n} (served beverage) | :: شراب {m} /šarāb/ |
| drink {v} (consume liquid through the mouth) | :: شرب /šariba/ |
| drinker {n} (one that drinks) | :: شارب {m} /šārib/ |
| drinking {n} (act or session by which drink is consumed) | :: شرب /šurb/ |
| drinking straw {n} (a long plastic or paper tube through which a drink is drunk) | :: شفاط {m} /šaffāṭ/ |
| drinking water {n} (water for humans) | :: ماء شرب /māʾ šurb/ |
| drive {v} (herd (animals) in a particular direction) | :: ساق /sāqa/ |
| drive {v} (move something by hitting it with great force) | :: ساق /sāqa/ |
| drive {v} (operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle)) | :: قاد /qāda/, ساق /sāqa/ |
| drive away {v} (to force someone to leave) | :: طرد /ṭarada/ |
| driver {n} (person who drives a motorized vehicle, such as a car or a bus) | :: سائق {m} /sāʾiq/, سواق {m} /sawwāq/ |
| driver {n} (person who drives some other vehicle) | :: سائق {m} /sāʾiq/ |
| driver {n} (program acting as interface between an application and hardware) | :: مشغل {m} /mašḡal/ |
| driver's licence {n} (document) SEE: driver's license | :: |
| driver's license {n} (documenting permitting a person to drive) | :: رخصة سياقة {f} /ruḵṣa(t) siyāqa/, رخصة قيادة {f} /ruḵṣa(t) qiyāda/, إجازة سياقة {f} /ʾijāza(t) sayāqa/ |
| driveshaft {n} (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion) | :: عمود الدوران {m} /ʿamūd ad-dawarān/ |
| driving {n} (action of operating a motor vehicle) | :: سياقة {f} /siyāqa/, قيادة {f} /qiyāda/ |
| driving licence {n} (document) SEE: driver's license | :: |
| drizzle {v} (to rain lightly) | :: رذ /raḏḏa/, بغش /baḡaša/ |
| drizzle {v} (to urinate) | :: تبول {m} |
| drizzle {n} (light rain) | :: رذاذ {m} /raḏāḏ/, بغشة /baḡša/, غبية /ḡabya/ |
| dromedary {n} (single-humped camel) | :: جمل عربي {m} /jamal ʿarabiyy/ (Arabian camel) |
| drone {n} (unmanned aircraft) | :: طائرة بدون طيار {f} /ṭāʾira bidūni ṭayyār/ |
| drop {n} (small mass of liquid) | :: قطرة {f} /qaṭra/ |
| drop {v} (to allow to fall from one's grasp) | :: أسقط /ʾasqaṭa/ |
| drop in the bucket {n} (an effort or action having very little influence, especially as compared to a huge problem) | :: قطرة في المحيط /qaṭra fī l-muḥīṭ/ |
| drop in the ocean {n} (drop in the bucket) SEE: drop in the bucket | :: |
| droplet {n} (very small drop) | :: قطيرة {f} /quṭayra/ |
| dropsy {n} (swelling) | :: استسقاء {m} /istisqāʾ/ |
| drought {n} (period of unusually low rain fall) | :: جفاف {m} /jafāf/ |
| drown {v} (to be suffocated in fluid) | :: غرق /ḡariqa/ |
| drown {v} (to deprive of life by immerson in liquid) | :: أغرق /ʾaḡraqa/ |
| drown {v} | :: غرق /ḡarq/ |
| drowned {adj} (that has died by drowning) | :: غريق /ḡarīq/ |
| drowning {n} (an instance of someone drowning) | :: غرق {m} /ḡaraq/ |
| drowsy {adj} (inclined to drowse) | :: نعسان /naʿsān/ |
| drug {n} (substance used as a medical treatment, see also: medicine) | :: عقار {m} /ʿaqqār/ |
| drug {n} (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) | :: مخدر {m} /muḵaddir/ |
| drug addict {n} (person with a chemical or psychological dependency on drugs) | :: مدمن {m} /mudmin/, حشاش {m} /ḥaššāš/ |
| drugstore {n} (pharmacy) SEE: pharmacy | :: |
| drum {n} (musical instrument) | :: طبل {m} /ṭabala/ |
| drum {n} (hollow, cylindrical object) | :: طبلة {f} /ṭabla/ |
| drummer {n} | :: طبال {p} /ṭabbālun/ |
| drunk {adj} (intoxicated after drinking too much alcohol) | :: سكران /sakrān/ |
| drunk {n} (habitual drinker) | :: سكير {m} /sikkīr/, خمير {m} /ḵimmīr/, معاقر {m} /muʿāqir/ |
| drunkard {n} (person who is habitually drunk) SEE: drunk | :: |
| drunkenness {n} (state of being drunk) | :: سكر {m} /sukrun/ |
| drunkness {n} (drunkenness) SEE: drunkenness | :: |
| drupe {n} (stone fruit) SEE: stone fruit | :: |
| Druze {n} (collective Druze) | :: موحدون دروز {m-p} /muwaḥḥidūn durūz/ |
| Druze {n} (individual Druze) | :: دروز {m-p}, درزي {m}, درزية {f} /durziyya/ |
| dry {adj} (free from liquid or moisture) | :: جاف /jāf/ |
| dry {v} (to make dry) | :: يبس /yabbasa/, جفف /jaffafa/ |
| drydock {n} (dock that can be drained of water) | :: حوض جاف {m} /ḥawḍ jāff/ |
| dryer {n} (hairdryer) SEE: hairdryer | :: |
| dry land {n} (Land as opposed to sea) | :: بر {m} /barr/, يابسة {f} /yābisa/ |
| dry mouth {n} (dry mouth) | :: جفاف الحلق {m} /jafaf alhalaq/ |
| du'a' {n} ((Islam) private prayer by an individual, see also: prayer) | :: دعاء {m} /duʿāʾ/ |
| dual {adj} (double) | :: مثنى /muṯannan/ |
| dual {adj} (in grammar) | :: مثنى /muṯannan/ |
| dual {n} (grammatical number of a noun marking two of something) | :: مثنى /muṯannā/ |
| dual number {n} (grammatical number denoting a quantity of exactly two) SEE: dual | :: |
| dub {v} (to make a copy from an original or master audio tape) | :: انتسخ /intasaḵa/, نسخ /nasaḵa/ |
| dub {v} (to replace soundtrack of a film with translation) | :: دبلج /dablaja/ |
| dub {n} (dubbing) SEE: dubbing | :: |
| Dubai {prop} (one of the emirates of the United Arab Emirates) | :: دبي {m} /dubayy/ |
| Dubai {prop} (city) | :: دبي {m} /dubayy/ |
| dubbing {n} (replacement of voice) | :: دبلجة {f} /dablaja/ |
| Dublin {prop} (the capital of the Republic of Ireland) | :: دبلن {m} /dablin/ |
| dubnium {n} (chemical element) | :: دوبنيوم {m} /dubniyum/ |
| duchess {n} (female spouse or widow of a duke) | :: دوقة {f} /dūqa/ |
| duchy {n} (a dominion or region ruled by a duke or duchess) | :: دوقية {f} /dūqiyya/ |
| duck {n} (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae) | :: بطة {f} /baṭṭa/ |
| duck {n} (female duck) | :: بطة {f} /baṭṭa/ |
| Duckburg {prop} (fictional city where Donald Duck lives) | :: مدينة البط {f} /madīna(t) al-baṭṭi/ |
| duck soup {n} (something which is easy) SEE: piece of cake | :: |
| duck tape {n} (duct tape) SEE: duct tape | :: |
| duct tape {n} (multipurpose waterproof tape) | :: شريط لاصق {m} /šarīṭ lāṣiq/ |
| ductus deferens {n} (vas deferens) SEE: vas deferens | :: |
| dud {n} (loser) SEE: loser | :: |
| dugong {n} (Dugong dugon) | :: أطوم {m} /ʾaṭūm/ |
| duke {n} (male ruler of a duchy) | :: دوق {m} /dūq/ |
| dukhan {n} (a small restaurant, tavern or a shop in the Caucasus and Crimea) | :: دكان {m} /dukkān/ |
| dukkah {n} (a dry mixture of chopped nuts, seeds and Middle Eastern spices) | :: دقة {f} /duqqa/ |
| dulcour {n} (sweetness; dulcitude; suavitude) SEE: sweetness | :: |
| dull {adj} (lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp) | :: كليل /kalīl/ |
| duma {n} (lower house of Russian national parliament) | :: الدوما {f} /ad-dūmā/ |
| dumb {adj} (unable to speak) SEE: mute | :: |
| dumb {adj} (extremely stupid) | :: غبي /ḡabiyy/ |
| dumbbell {n} (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar) | :: دمبل {m} /dumbil/ |
| dumbledore {n} (beetle) SEE: beetle | :: |
| dumbledore {n} (bumblebee) SEE: bumblebee | :: |
| dumbledore {n} (dandelion) SEE: dandelion | :: |
| dummy {n} (something constructed with the size and form of a human) | :: دمية /dumya/ |
| dummy {n} (pacifier) SEE: pacifier | :: |
| dumpling {n} (food) | :: دامبلنغ {m} /dāmblinḡ/ |
| dunce cap {n} (Conical hat) | :: قبعة الأغبياء |
| dune {n} (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind) | :: كثيب {m} /kaṯīb/, غرد {m} /ḡurd/ |
| dung {n} (manure) | :: روث {m} /rawṯ/ |
| dung beetle {n} (insect of the family Scarabaeidae) | :: جعل الروث {m} /jaʿl ar-rawṯ/, جعران {m} /jiʿrān/, خنفساء {f} /ḵunfusāʾ/ |
| dungeon {n} (underground prison or vault) | :: زنزانة {f} /zinzāna/ |
| Dunkirk {prop} (town in France) | :: دونكيرك |
| duodenum {n} (first part of the small intestine) | :: اثنا عشري {p} /iṯnā ʿašariyy/, عفج {m} /ʿafj/ |
| dupe {v} (to swindle, deceive, or trick) | :: يخدع |
| dura mater {n} (anatomy: outermost layer of the meninges) | :: الأم الجافية (al-umm al-jāfiya) |
| duration {n} (amount of time) | :: مدة {f} /mudda/ |
| Durex {n} (condom) SEE: condom | :: |
| durian {n} (fruit) | :: دريان {m} /duryān/ |
| during {prep} (for all of a given time interval) | :: خلال /ḵilāla/, في /fī/, أثناء /ʾaṯnāʾa/, مدة /muddata/, إبان /ʾibbān/ |
| during {prep} (within a given time interval) | :: أثناء /ʾaṯnāʾa/, مدة /muddata/ |
| Durrës {prop} (Adriatic port city in Albania) | :: دراج {m} /durāj/, دراس {m} /durās/, دراست {m} /durāsit/ |
| Dushanbe {prop} (capital of Tajikistan) | :: دوشنبه {f} /dušanbih/ |
| dusk {n} (period of time at the end of day when sun is below the horizon but before full onset of night) | :: غسق {m} /ḡasaq/ |
| dusky {adj} (dark-skinned) SEE: dark-skinned | :: |
| dust {n} (fine, dry particles) | :: غبار {m} /ḡubār/ |
| duster {n} (object used for dusting) | :: ممسحة {f} /mimsaḥa/, ممسح {m} /mimsaḥ/ |
| duststorm {n} (A storm of dust) | :: عاصفة الغبار {f} /ʿāṣifat al-ḡubār/, عاصفة رملية {f} /ʿāṣifa ramliyya/ |
| Dutch {adj} (of the Netherlands, people, or language) | :: هولندي /hūlandiyy/ |
| Dutch {prop} (the Dutch language) | :: هولندية {f} /hūlandiyya/ |
| Dutch {n} (people from the Netherlands) | :: هولنديون {m-p} /hūlandiyyūn/, هولنديات {f-p} /hūlandiyyāt/ |
| Dutchman {n} (a Dutch man) | :: هولندي {m} /hūlandiyy/ |
| duty {n} (that which one is morally or legally obligated to do) | :: واجب {m} /wājib/ |
| duvet {n} (quilt) | :: لحاف {m} /liḥāf/ |
| DVD {n} (digital video disc) | :: دي في دي {m} /dī fī dī/ |
| DVD player {n} (DVD player) | :: مشغل دي في دي {m} /mašḡal dī fī dī/, مشغل DVD {m} /mašḡal dī fī dī/ |
| Dvořák {prop} (Czech composer) | :: دفورجاك {m} /dfūrjāk/ |
| dwarf {n} (small person) | :: قزم {m} /qazam/, قزمة {f} /qazama/ |
| dwarf {n} (astronomy: relatively small star) | :: قزم {n} /qazam/ |
| dwarf {adj} (miniature) | :: قزمي {m} /qazamiyy/ |
| dwarf planet {n} (a type of celestial body) | :: كوكب قزم {m} /kawkab qazam/ |
| dwarf star {n} (star that is a located in the main sequence) | :: نجم قزم {m} /najm qazam/ |
| dweller {n} (inhabitant) SEE: inhabitant | :: |
| dwelling {n} (house or place in which a person lives) | :: منزل {m} /manzil/, سكن {m} /sakan/ |
| dye {n} (a colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied) | :: صبغة {f} /ṣibḡa/ |
| dye {v} (to colour with dye) | :: صبغ /ṣabaḡa/ |
| dye {n} (die) SEE: die | :: |
| dyed {adj} (colored with dye) | :: مصبوغ /maṣbūḡ/ |
| dyer {n} (one whose occupation is to dye) | :: صباغ /ṣabbāḡ/ |
| dyke {n} (ditch) SEE: ditch | :: |
| dynamics {n} (branch of mechanics) | :: ديناميكا {f} /dināmikā/, حركية /ḥarakiyya/, حراكية /ḥarākiyya/, دينامية /dīnāmiyya/ |
| dynamite {n} (class of explosives) | :: ديناميت {m} /dinamit/ |
| dynamo {n} (dynamo-electric machine) | :: دينامو {m} /dināmū/ |
| dynasty {n} (A series of rulers or dynasts from one family) | :: سلالة {f} /sulāla/ |
| dysentery {n} (disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines) | :: زحار {m} /zuḥār/ |
| dysprosium {n} (chemical element) | :: ديسبروسيوم {m} /disbrusyum/ |
| dystrophy {n} (dystrophy) | :: ضمور {m} /ḍumūr/ |
