ذِرَاع

ذِرَاع in English

Noun · feminine

1. the limb of any animal, an arm or leg
   1. the portion of the upper appendage from the shoulder to wrist, the arm
      فِي ذِرَاعِ ٱلْإِنْسَانِ ثَلَاثَةُ عِظَامٍ: اِثْنَتَانِ فِي ٱلسَّاعِدِ ٱسْمَاهُمَا ٱلزَّنْدُ وَٱلْكُعْبُرَةُ وَوَاحِدَةٌ فِي ٱلْعَضُدِ.There are three bones in the human arm: two in the lower arm (called the ulna and the radius) and one in the upper arm.
   2. something resembling, likened to, or related to an arm or arms (such as a lever, a shift lever, a lever arm, a crank arm, a jib, a boom, a branch or division, power, might, influence, and so on)
2. the portion of the upper appendage from the elbow to the wrist, the lower arm, the forearm
3. a cubit, especially the Arabian cubit variously standardized by place, time, and item from 25–75 cm (10 in–2 ft 6 in).

Word origin

Cognate to Aramaic דְּרָעָא / ܕܪܥܐ (dərāʿā), Hebrew זְרוֹעַ (zərṓaʿ), Ugaritic 𐎏𐎗𐎓 (ḏrʿ), Ge'ez መዝራዕት (mäzraʿt), Tigre ዘራዕ (zäraʿ), መዛርዕት (mäzarəʿt), Tigrinya መዝራዕት (mäzraʿt), Soqotri direʿ, Shehri diráʿ.

Words from the root ذ-ر-ع

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ذِرَاع: plural and other forms

ذِرَاع in a sentence

Dictionary examples

the portion of the upper appendage from the shoulder to wrist

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