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tarea

task, job to be done; homeworktrabajo que hay que hacer; deberes escolares

Comes from Arabic

طَرِيحَة

ṭarīḥa

“something imposed, an assigned job”«lo impuesto, faena asignada»

Arabic today says

مَهَمَّة

mahamma

Root

ط ر ح

ṭ-r-ḥ

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

It comes from the verb ṭaraḥa, "to throw, to impose": a tarea was the amount of work "thrown" at someone. In modern Arabic, school homework is called wājib.Viene del verbo ṭaraḥa, «arrojar, imponer»: la tarea era la cantidad de trabajo que se «echaba» a alguien. En árabe moderno, a los deberes del colegio se les llama wājib.

In a sentence

Primero termina la tarea y luego juega.

Finish your homework first, then play.

أَنْهِ وَاجِبَكَ أَوَّلًا ثُمَّ الْعَبْ.

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