No. 6,454 in Arabic

اعتقال

Detention or arrest.

In a sentence

تم اعتقال المشتبه به من قبل الشرطة.
The suspect was arrested by the police.
In this sentence, 'اعتقال' is used to mean 'arrest' and denotes the procedure of detaining someone officially.
عملية اعتقال السارق استغرقت وقتًا طويلًا.
The arrest of the thief took a long time.
Here, 'اعتقال' is used as a nominal object meaning 'arrest,' describing the process of apprehension.
أنا أعارض سياسات الاعتقال الجماعي.
I oppose mass arrest policies.
In this sentence, 'اعتقال' is used to refer to the concept of detention, especially in a collective sense.

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