أجنبي

See also: اجنبي, اخنبي, and اجنبی

Arabic

Etymology

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of أَجْنَب (ʾajnab, foreign) + ـِيّ (-iyy), from the root ج ن ب (j n b); compare جُنُب (junub, stranger).

Adjective

أَجْنَبِيّ (ʾajnabiyy) m, fem أَجْنَبِيَّة (ʾajnabiyya), masc pl أَجْنَبِيُّون (ʾajnabiyyūn) or أَجَانِب (ʾajānib), fem pl أَجْنَبِيَّات (ʾajnabiyyāt)

  1. foreign

Declension

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), أجنبي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), أجنبي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Noun

أَجْنَبِيّ (ʾajnabiyy) m, pl أَجْنَبِيُّون (ʾajnabiyyūn) or أَجَانِب (ʾajānib), fem أَجْنَبِيَّة (ʾajnabiyya)

  1. foreigner

Declension

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), أجنبي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), أجنبي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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