This is the 534th most frequent Arabic word.
يمثل
"يمثل" means "to represent" or "to act."
Here, "يمثل" means 'to represent,' indicating acting as a representative or symbol of a larger group (school in this context).
الطالب يمثل مدرسته في المسابقة.
The student represents his school in the competition.
In this sentence, "يمثل" means 'to depict' or 'to show,' used to indicate representation of a conceptual entity, the idea.
هذا الرسم يمثل فكرة المصمم.
This drawing represents the designer's idea.
Here, "يمثل" means 'to act or perform,' describing the action of portraying a character in a performance.