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search in Arabic

طَلَب ṭalab

UK/sɜːt͡ʃ//sɝt͡ʃ/

search in Arabic: طَلَب (ṭalab), بَحْث (baḥṯ), بَحَثَ (baḥaṯa), فَتَّشَ (fattaša). In English, search means an attempt to find something.

Arabic words for search

an attempt to find something
طَلَب ṭalab, بَحْث baḥṯ
to look throughout (a place) for something
بَحَثَ baḥaṯa, فَتَّشَ fattaša
(followed by "for") to look thoroughly
بَحَثَ عَنْ baḥaṯa ʕan

English meaning of search

  1. noun An attempt to find something.
  2. noun The act of searching in general.
  3. verb To look in (a place) for something.
  4. verb To look thoroughly.

Full definition of search

search in a sentence

  • With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.
  • Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.
  • I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.

Synonyms of search

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Questions about search in Arabic

What is the meaning of search in Arabic?
Search in Arabic is طَلَب (ṭalab), بَحْث (baḥṯ), بَحَثَ (baḥaṯa), فَتَّشَ (fattaša).
ما معنى كلمة search؟
Search: طَلَب (ṭalab), بَحْث (baḥṯ), بَحَثَ (baḥaṯa), فَتَّشَ (fattaša).
What does search mean in English?
Search means an attempt to find something.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: search (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Arabic words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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