ميكانيكي (mikaniki) — "mechanic" in Levantine Arabic

ميكانيكي

mīkānīki

mechanic

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"mechanic" in the other dialects

Egyptian Arabic

ميكانيكي

mikaniiki

Moroccan Darija

ميكانيك

Modern Standard Arabic

ميكانيكي

miikaaniki

ميكانيكي 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.

بالسر، أخدوا البسكليتة لعند ميكانيكي الحارة، عمو حسان، وهو وعدن إنه رح يظبطها بأفضل شكل.

Bi-s-sirr, akhadu l-baskleeta la-'and mekaniki l-Haret, 'ammo Hassan, w-huwwa wa'adan innoh raH yzaBBeTHa bi-afDal shakl.

Secretly, they took the bicycle to the neighborhood mechanic, Uncle Hassan, and he promised them he would fix it in the best way.

from The Neighborhood Friendship Story

طارق، الميكانيكي العنيد يلي عمرو تنين وأربعين سنة، صفن بتلفونو المكسور على أرض الكراج المزيتة بالجميزة، واكتشف إنو ضيع الرقم الوحيد لتاجر قزاز البيجو القديمة.

Tariq, el mikaniki el anid yalli omro tnein wa arbein seneh, safan bitelefono el maksour ala ard el karaj el mzayyateh bil Gemmayzeh, wa ktashaf inno dayya el raqam el wahid la tajer qzaz el peugeot el adimeh.

Tariq, the stubborn forty-two-year-old mechanic, stared at his broken phone on the oily floor of the garage in Gemmayzeh, and realized that he lost the only number for the vintage Peugeot glass merchant.

from The Lost Number in the Garage

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