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camera in Arabic

كَامِرَة
Pronunciation
kāmīrah
Arabizi
kameera
Type
noun · feminine
Plural
كَامِرَاتٌ kāmīrāt

How to use it

"كاميرا" (kāmīra) is the standard Arabic word for a photographic or video camera. It is feminine; adjectives and verbs that refer to it must agree in gender. The plural is "كاميرات".

Example sentences

  • أَحْضَرْتُ الكَامِرَةَ لِلتَّصْوِيرِ.

    aḥḍartu al-kāmirah li-t-taṣwīr.

    I brought the camera for photography.

  • الكَامِرَةُ تُسَجِّلُ الفِيديو بِجَوْدَةٍ عَالِيَةٍ.

    al-kāmirah tusajjilu al-fīdīū bi-jawdatin ʿāliyah.

    The camera records video in high quality.

  • نَسِيْتُ شَاحِنَ الكَامِرَةِ فِي المَطَارِ.

    nasītu shāḥina al-kāmirah fī al-maṭār.

    I left the camera bag at the airport.

Examples from real texts

Sentences taken from published bilingual texts (subtitles, documents). They show the word in context and are not reviewed one by one.

Camera

آلات تصوير

Camera Raw

آلات تصوير

Camera Test

اختبار الكاميرا

Camera tests

اختبارات الكاميرا

Video camera

آلة تصوير الفيديو

Camera device

جهاز الكاميرا

Camera position

موضع الكاميرا

There's a camera.

هناك كاميرا.

Camera information

آلة تصوير معلومات

Video Camera right

آلة تصوير فيديو يمين

Nick -- the camera, again, an automatic camera took thousands of pictures of this.

نيك والكاميرا من جديد.. كاميرا إلكترونية أخذ آلاف الصور من هذه اللقطة

The movie camera, film camera or cine-camera is a type of photographic camera which takes a rapid sequence of photographs on an image sensor or on a film.

آلة تصوير سينمائي هي نوع من أنواع تصوير الكاميرا والتي تأخذ تسلسل سريع للصور الفوتوغرافية على شرائط من الأفلام.

Questions and answers

Is there a short informal word for camera?

In spoken dialects people often say "كَميرا" (kamira) or use the French loan "كاميرا" unchanged.

Can "كاميرا" refer to a surveillance camera?

Yes, context determines the type; you can say "كاميرا مراقبة" for a security camera.

Related words and expressions

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