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بَحْرِيّ
maritime, of the sea /baħˈriːj/
adjectiveB2#3840 most common
Also: naval, marine, nautical
Example sentences
هَذا حَيَوانٌ بَحْرِيٌّ.
This is a sea animal.
أَبِي ضابِطٌ بَحْرِيٌّ.
My father is a naval officer.
نَذْهَبُ إِلى المَتْحَفِ البَحْرِيِّ كُلَّ صَيْفٍ.
We go to the maritime museum every summer.
تَعْتَمِدُ الدَّوْلَةُ عَلى النَّقْلِ البَحْرِيِّ لِتَصْدِيرِ البِضائِعِ.
The country relies on maritime transport to export its goods.
شَهِدَتِ المِنْطَقَةُ نِزاعًا حَوْلَ الحُدُودِ البَحْرِيَّةِ بَيْنَ الدَّوْلَتَيْنِ.
The region saw a dispute over the maritime border between the two countries.
يُعَدُّ التَّنَوُّعُ البَحْرِيُّ فِي هٰذِهِ المِنْطَقَةِ مِن أَغْنى الأَنْظِمَةِ البِيئِيَّةِ فِي العالَمِ.
Marine biodiversity in this region ranks among the richest ecosystems in the world.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بَحْرِيٌّ | بَحْرِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | بَحْرِيٍّ | بَحْرِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | بَحْرِيًّا | بَحْرِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | بَحْرِيُّ | بَحْرِيُّونَ |
Word family
Etymology
بَحْرِيّ is built from the Arabic root ب ح ر, which gives بَحْر, meaning sea or large body of water. Adding the nisba suffix -ِيّ, the standard Arabic way of turning a noun into a relative adjective, produces baḥriyy, meaning of the sea or pertaining to the sea. The same root and suffix pattern appears across the Semitic language family.
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