How to say "police car" in Iraqi Arabic
What this word is
In Iraqi Arabic, the word for "police car" is سيّارة شرطة , pronounced sayyarit shurta. This is the word Bibi and Jiddo would actually use at home, rather than the Modern Standard Arabic form taught in schools and used in news broadcasts.
How to pronounce it
"sayyarit shurta" is written in the Arabic chat alphabet, the system Arabic speakers already use when texting in Latin letters. The digits stand for sounds English has no letter for:
How sure are we about this translation?
Every word in a Kipiku book is cross-checked against Iraqi Arabic dictionaries and refined as readers write in. This word currently carries a confidence score of 92%. The books have not been through a full native-speaker editorial review, so if this looks wrong to you, tell us and we will fix it in the next printing and send you a free corrected copy.
100 words like this one
"police car" is one of 100 first words in the Iraqi Arabic picture dictionary for toddlers, illustrated in hand-painted watercolour by the artist Digitalartsi.
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