عسكري

Arabic

Etymology

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of عَسْكَر (ʿaskar, army) + ـِيّ (-iyy).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

عَسْكَرِيّ (ʿaskariyy) m, fem عَسْكَرِيَّة (ʿaskariyya), masc pl عَسْكَرِيُّون (ʿaskariyyūn), fem pl عَسْكَرِيَّات (ʿaskariyyāt)

  1. military
    الْعَسْكَرِيُّونal-ʿaskariyyūnthe military
  2. army

Declension

Noun

عَسْكَرِيّ (ʿaskariyy) m, pl عَسْكَرِيُّون (ʿaskariyyūn) or عَسَاكِر (ʿasākir), fem عَسْكَرِيَّة (ʿaskariyya)

  1. soldier
  2. (military) private
  3. policeman
  4. (plural) enlisted men

Declension

See also

References

  • عسكري” in J.A. Haywood and H.M. Nahmad (1965), A new Arabic grammar (second edition), London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), عسكر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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