شرطي (shurti) — "policeman" in Modern Standard Arabic
شرطي
šurTi
policeman
- Topic
- work and money
- Seen in
- 2 of our stories
"policeman" in the other dialects
شرطي 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.
اجاب الشرطي مساء النور انا بخير ما اسمك
ajaba ash shurti masa an nur ana bi khayr ma ismuka
The policeman answered good evening I am fine what is your name.
قال انا الان شرطي في المدينة
Qāla anā al-āna shurṭiyyun fī al-madīnati.
He said, "I am now a policeman in the city."
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