قميص (qamiis) — "shirt" in Modern Standard Arabic
قميص
qamiiS
shirt
- Topic
- clothing
- Seen in
- 6 of our stories
"shirt" in the other dialects
قميص in a sentence
Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.
هي اشترت قميص لونه زهري للرحلة الطويلة
Hiya ishtarat qamis lawnuhu zahri lil rihla al tawila
She bought a pink shirt for the long trip
from The Weekend Trip
دفع أحمد ثمن القميص وشكر البائع على مساعدته
dafaa ahmad thaman al qamis wa shakara al baia ala musadatihi
Ahmad paid the price of the shirt and thanked the seller for his help.
from New Clothes
ذهبت الى المتجر لترجع القميص
Dhahabat ila al-matjar li-turji'a al-qamis
She went to the shop to return the shirt.
احمد ووالده ذهبا الى المتجر مساء لارجاع قميص جديد
Ahmad wa waaliduhu dhahaba ila al-matjari masaa'an li-irjaa'i qameesin jadeedin.
Ahmed and his father went to the shop in the evening to return a new shirt.
في قسم الملابس رأت الجدة قميصا وسألت حفيدتها هل يعجبك هذا القميص
Fī qismi al-malābisī raʾat al-jaddatu qamīṣan wa-saʾalat ḥafīdatahā hal yuʿjibuki hādhā al-qamīṣu.
In the clothing section, the grandmother saw a shirt and asked her granddaughter, "Do you like this shirt?"
More clothing vocabulary
Practice clothing
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