تجربة السمكة المفترسة والسمكة الذهبية في حوض واحد

What does “muftaris” (مفترس) mean in Arabic?

السمكة المفترسة in this experiment is “the predatory fish,” and the word carries its food chain inside it: فريسة is prey, the verb افترس is to devour prey, and مفترس is the one doing the devouring. Every nature documentary in Arabic leans on this family — الحيوانات المفترسة are the predators. Learn one root, ف-ر-س, and the whole hunting scene comes with it.

The clip retells the classic pike experiment: a glass pane separates predator from goldfish, the predator slams into it مرة بعد مرة (“time after time”) until it gives up — and keeps avoiding the goldfish even after the glass is removed. That phrase مرة بعد مرة is a keeper, as is حوض, the word for tank, basin, and even bathtub across the Arab world.