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Arabic translation: القائمة المسحوبة


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English term or phrase:Pulldown menu
Arabic translation:القائمة المسحوبة
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03:17 Mar 25, 2001
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English term or phrase: Pulldown menu
The usual term used in the computer terminology "pulldown menu".

Thanks
Mona
Al qae’ma al mashoba
Explanation:
Hello Mona,
Pull-down menu is a menu of commands or options that appears when you select an item with a mouse. The item you select is generally at the top of the display screen, and the menu appears just below it, as if you had pulled it down.
Suggestions:
Al qae’ma al mashoba
القائمة المسحوبة
Or: qae’mato al sahb
قائمة السحب
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Raghad
Local time: 23:14
Grading comment
Thank you Raghad and thanks to all.
Regards
Mona
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Summary of answers provided
naqa`imah matrouhah قائمة مطروحة - munbasiTah منبسطة
Alaa Zeineldine
naKaa'emah mas-houbbah ILA-Lasfal
Boushra Ezzideen
naقائمة منسدلةahmadov
naقائمة هابطةFuad Yahya
naAl qae’ma al mashobaRaghad


  

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1 hr
Al qae’ma al mashoba


Explanation:
Hello Mona,
Pull-down menu is a menu of commands or options that appears when you select an item with a mouse. The item you select is generally at the top of the display screen, and the menu appears just below it, as if you had pulled it down.
Suggestions:
Al qae’ma al mashoba
القائمة المسحوبة
Or: qae’mato al sahb
قائمة السحب


Raghad
Local time: 23:14
PRO pts in pair: 160
Grading comment
Thank you Raghad and thanks to all.
Regards
Mona

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1 hr
قائمة هابطة


Explanation:
Microsoft's manuals use the term QA'IMA for menu and uses the term KHIYARAT for the items on each menu.

I have not seen a term for "pulldown" menu, so my suggestion QA'MA HABITA is a just a brazen-faced invention.

Fuad




    Microsoft literature
Fuad Yahya
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
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1 hr
قائمة منسدلة


Explanation:
hi,
This is used term for his type of menuse: (qaima munsadelah).
Salam
Ahamd

ahmadov
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Fuad Yahya
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3 hrs
Kaa'emah mas-houbbah ILA-Lasfal


Explanation:
Dear Mouna,
Pull-down menu means the menu of options that appear at certain points in the program(seems to be hanging from the top of the screen) and disappears once the required option is selected.
The explanation in Arabic is as follows:
La'ihat khayarat tath-har lil-mostakhdim inda nikaat mouayyana fi-l-barnabej.


    Al-Kilani Dictionary of Computer Technology
Boushra Ezzideen
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1 day18 hrs
qa`imah matrouhah قائمة مطروحة - munbasiTah منبسطة


Explanation:
Of the above suggestions, منسدلة seems nicely related to the vertical curtain metaphor as the term drop-down is.

To add my own suggestions. I offer the two adjectives مطروحة and منبسطة giving the meaning of rolled out. I would be a little cautious with هابطة only because the word has a negative meaning.

- Alaa

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