مطار

Arabic

FWOTD – 15 June 2021

Etymology

Noun of place from the verb طَارَ‎ (ṭāra, “to fly”), from the root ط ي ر‎ (ṭ-y-r).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.tˤaːr/

Noun

مَطَار • (maṭār) m (plural مَطَارَات‎ (maṭārāt))

  1. airport, airfield
    • 2021 June 15, “تحذير لتركيا من تولي هذه المهمة.. طالبان ترفض تأمين الناتو مطار كابل وقتلى بهجوم شرقي البلاد”, in Al Jazeera‎:
      ‏أَعْلَنَتْ حَرَكَةُ طَالِبَانَ ٱلْأَفْغَانِيَّةُ أَنَّهَا تَعْتَبِرُ قَرَارَ حِلْفِ شَمَالِ ٱلْأَطْلَسِيِّ "نَاتُو" (NATO) إِبْقَاءَ قُوَّاتِهِ لِتَأْمِينِ مَطَارِ كَابُلَ ٱلدُّوَلِيِّ ٱسْتِمْرَارًا لِٱحْتِلَالِ أَفْغَانِسْتَانَ، […]‎
      ʔaʕlanat ḥarakatu ṭālibāna l-ʔafḡāniyyatu ʔannahā taʕtabiru qarāra ḥilfi šamāli l-ʔaṭlasiyyi "nātū" (NATO) ʔibqāʔa quwwātihi litaʔmīni maṭāri kābula d-duwaliyyi stimrāran liḥtilāli ʔafḡānistāna, […]
      The Taliban declared that it considers the decision of the NATO to keep its forces to secure Kabul International Airport as a continuation of the occupation of Afghanistan. […]

Declension

References

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

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ط ي ر‎
‏أوّل مطار في فلسطين انفتح بالقدس‎‎ ― the first airport in Palestine opened in Jerusalem

Etymology

From Arabic مَطَار‎ (maṭār).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.tˤaːr/, [maˈtˤɑːrˤ]
  • (file)

Noun

مطار • (maṭār) m (plural مطارات‎ (maṭārāt))

  1. airport

See also

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