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أَدْعَى

more conducive to /ˈʔad.ʕaː/

nounB2#3290 most common

Also: more likely to cause, more fitting a reason for, more apt to lead to

Example sentences

الصدقُ أدعى للثقةِ.
Honesty is more conducive to trust.
هذا الخبر أدعى للقلق.
This news is more of a reason for worry.
التعاون أدعى للنجاح من التنافس.
Cooperation is more conducive to success than competition.
قلة النوم أدعى للإصابة بالأمراض.
Lack of sleep is more conducive to getting sick.
إن غياب الشفافية في القرارات أدعى لانتشار الشائعات.
The absence of transparency in decisions is more conducive to the spread of rumors.
ليس هناك ما هو أدعى لزعزعة الاستقرار السياسي من الفساد المستشري في مؤسسات الدولة.
Nothing is more conducive to destabilizing political stability than corruption that runs through the institutions of the state.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
NominativeأدعىNone
GenitiveأدعىNone
AccusativeأدعىNone
VocativeNoneNone

Word family

دعاto call, invite, pray
دعوةinvitation, call
ادعاءclaim, assertion
داعيةpreacher, advocate
مدّعيclaimant, plaintiff

Etymology

أدعى comes from the Arabic root د ع و (d-ʕ-w), the same root behind دعا, 'to call, invite, or claim'. It is built on the أفعل pattern, the standard Arabic form for comparison, so it literally means 'more calling toward' something. Over time this became a fixed idiom for describing one thing as a stronger cause or trigger for another. Arabic is a Semitic language, not Indo-European, so it has no PIE ancestor.

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