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أَذْكَى
smarter /ʔaðˈkaː/
nounB1#2840 most common
Also: more intelligent, smartest, cleverer
Example sentences
هو أذكى من أخيه.
He is smarter than his brother.
أنتِ أذكى طالبة في الصف.
You are the smartest student in the class.
أعتقد أن القطط أذكى من الكلاب أحياناً.
I think cats are sometimes smarter than dogs.
كان أذكى رجل في القرية يعرف كيف يحل كل المشاكل.
The smartest man in the village knew how to solve every problem.
من الأذكى أن نراجع الخطة قبل تنفيذها.
It is smarter to review the plan before carrying it out.
لم يكن هناك من هو أذكى منه في التفاوض، إذ كان يتوقع ردود خصومه قبل أن ينطقوا بها.
No one was smarter than him at negotiation, since he would anticipate his opponents' responses before they spoke.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أذكى | أذكى |
| Genitive | أذكى | أذكى |
| Accusative | أذكى | أذكى |
| Vocative | أذكى | أذكى |
Word family
ذَكِيّintelligent, smart
ذَكَاءintelligence, cleverness
أَذْكِيَاءintelligent people, geniuses (plural of ذكي)
تَذَاكَىto act clever, pretend to be smart
Etymology
أَذْكَى is the elative (comparative and superlative) form of the adjective ذَكِيّ, built on the Semitic root ذ-ك-و/ي. That root centers on sharpness and brightness, and it extended from a blazing fire to a sharp, quick mind. The final root letter و surfaces as the long vowel ى because it sits at the end of the word, a regular pattern for weak-root elatives like this one.
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