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إِباحِيّ
pornographic /ʔi.bɑːˈħij.jiː/
adjectiveB2#3249 most common
Also: libertine, permissive, obscene
Example sentences
هذا الموقع إباحي.
This website is pornographic.
يمنع القانون نشر مواد إباحية.
The law forbids publishing pornographic material.
أغلقت الحكومة عدة مواقع إباحية العام الماضي.
The government shut down several pornographic websites last year.
يعاني بعض المراهقين من إدمان مشاهدة الأفلام الإباحية.
Some teenagers suffer from an addiction to watching pornographic films.
يرى بعض النقاد أن الفكر الإباحي يهدد القيم الأخلاقية للمجتمع.
Some critics believe that libertine thinking threatens society's moral values.
تناول الكاتب في مقالته إشكالية الرقابة على المحتوى الإباحي في عصر الإنترنت.
In his article, the writer addressed the problem of censoring pornographic content in the internet age.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | إباحيٌّ | إباحيّون |
| Genitive | إباحيٍّ | إباحيّين |
| Accusative | إباحيًّا | إباحيّين |
| Vocative | أيها الإباحيُّ | أيها الإباحيّون |
Word family
أباحto permit, make licit
إباحةpermission, legalization
إباحيةpornography, libertinism
مباحpermissible, allowed
Etymology
The adjective إباحي comes from إباحة, the verbal noun of the Form IV verb أباح, built on the root ب و ح. That root carries the sense of revealing or disclosing something, and in Form IV it shifted to mean permitting or making something licit. Adding the nisba ending ي turned the noun of permission into an adjective meaning pertaining to permission. In modern usage this settled on material that permits full exposure, hence pornographic, while an older, broader sense still covers permissive or libertine attitudes.
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