sort in Arabic: فرز (faraza) – meaning, pronunciation, examples

Other meanings

تَعَامَلَ مَعَ taʿāmala maʿa — deal with · to deal with, to handle

How to use it

The Arabic verb فرز (faraza) primarily means to sort or classify items. It's often used when organizing physical objects or data. The phrase تعامل مع (taʿāmala maʿa) means 'to deal with' or 'to handle' and is used for situations or problems.

Example sentences

فَرَزَ الرَّجُلُ الرَّسَائِلَ حَسَبَ الأَهَمِّيَّةِ.

faraza ar-rajulu ar-rasāʾila ḥasaba al-ahammīyah.

The man sorted the letters according to importance.
يَجِبُ أَنْ نَتَعَامَلَ مَعَ هَذِهِ الْمُشْكِلَةِ بِحِكْمَةٍ.

yajibu an nataʿāmala maʿa hādhihi al-mushkilati biḥikmah.

We must deal with this problem wisely.
هَلْ يُمْكِنُكَ فَرْزُ هَذِهِ الْأَشْيَاءِ؟

hal yumkinuka farzu hādhihi al-ashyāʾ?

Can you sort these things?

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.

& Sort Albums

رتّب الألبومات

& Sort Images

رتّب صور

Sort of cute.

نوع من الذكاء.

Sort images by:

رتّب صورsort images by date

Sort order for images

رتّب صور

It's sort of like sobering up.

إنه نوع من التنبه.

It was sort of a spooky story.

كانت قصة تسبب القشعريرة.

Nothing of the sort is happening.

بيد أننا لم نر شيئاً من هذا القبيل.

It’s sort of journalism and more.

هو أكثر من مجرد نوع من أنواع الإعلام.

I call it sort of "shotgun flexibility."

ادعوها نوعا ما بسلاح المرونة

Every time I sort of pushed one down, another one would just sort of pop back up again.

في كل مرة كنت أتأقلم و أضبط نوعاً من العواطف كان نوع آخر يظهر لي و يعكر صفوي

And another way that you saw, sort of, this sort of, this antipathy towards the Chinese is through documents like this.

وطريقة أخرى أن رأيت هذا النوع من، هذه الكراهية تجاه الصينيين كان عبر وثائق من هذا القبيل.

Questions and answers

What's the difference between فرز and تصنيف?

'فرز' (faraza) is more about separating and arranging things into groups, while 'تصنيف' (taṣnīf) is more about categorizing based on type or characteristics.

How do I say 'to sort out a problem'?

You would use 'حل مشكلة' (ḥalla mushkilah - to solve a problem) or 'تعامل مع مشكلة' (taʿāmala maʿa mushkilah - to deal with a problem).