عسكري

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Arabic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕas.ka.rijj/
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Adjective

عَسْكَرِيّ (ʕaskariyy) (feminine عَسْكَرِيَّة (ʕaskariyya), masculine plural عَسْكَرِيُّون (ʕaskariyyūn) or عَسَاكِر (ʕasākir), feminine plural عَسْكَرِيَّات (ʕaskariyyāt))

  1. military
    الْعَسْكَرِيُّونal-ʕaskariyyūnthe military

Declension

Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: عسكری (askeri)
    • Crimean Tatar: askeriy
    • Turkish: askerî

Noun

عَسْكَرِيّ (ʕaskariyym (plural عَسْكَرِيُّونَ (ʕaskariyyūna) or عَسَاكِر (ʕasākir), feminine عَسْكَرِيَّة (ʕaskariyya))

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

Declension

Descendants

See also

References

  • Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “عسكري”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd 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