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أَنْظَف
cleaner /ˈʔanðˤaf/
nounB2#3772 most common
Also: cleanest, more/most clean
Example sentences
بَيْتِي أَنْظَف مِن بَيْتِك.
My house is cleaner than yours.
هَذَا الشَّارِع أَنْظَف مَكَان فِي المَدِينَة.
This street is the cleanest place in the city.
يَجِب أَن تَخْتَار الطَّرِيق الأَنْظَف لِلْحِفَاظ عَلَى البِيئَة.
You should choose the cleaner route to protect the environment.
الْمَاء فِي هَذِهِ البُحَيْرَة أَنْظَف مِمَّا كَان قَبْل عَشْر سَنَوَات.
The water in this lake is cleaner than it was ten years ago.
تُعْتَبَر هَذِهِ الشَّرِكَة الأَنْظَف بِيئِيًّا بَيْن مُنَافِسِيهَا.
This company is considered the cleanest, environmentally, among its competitors.
كُلَّمَا اسْتَخْدَمْنَا طَاقَة مُتَجَدِّدَة أَكْثَر، أَصْبَح الهَوَاء الَّذِي نَتَنَفَّسُه أَنْظَف.
The more renewable energy we use, the cleaner the air we breathe becomes.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أَنْظَفُ | أَنْظَفُونَ |
| Genitive | أَنْظَفَ | أَنْظَفِينَ |
| Accusative | أَنْظَفَ | أَنْظَفِينَ |
| Vocative | يَا أَنْظَفُ | يَا أَنْظَفُونَ |
Word family
نظيفclean
نظافةcleanliness
تنظيفcleaning (the act of)
ينظفhe cleans
منظفdetergent, cleaning agent
Etymology
أَنْظَف comes from the Arabic triliteral root ن ظ ف (n-ẓ-f), which carries the sense of cleanliness and purity. It is built on the أفعل (afʿal) pattern, the standard mold Arabic uses to form comparative and superlative adjectives from a base adjective, here نظيف (clean). Arabic is a Semitic language, so it has no traceable link to Indo-European roots or their descendants.
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