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بَطَل
hero /ˈbatˤal/
nounA1#688 most common
Also: champion, protagonist, title holder
Example sentences
هُوَ بَطَل.
He is a hero.
أَخي بَطَل في كُرَة القَدَم.
My brother is a champion in football.
أَصبَحَ هٰذا اللّاعِبُ بَطَلاً بَعدَ المُباراة.
This player became a champion after the match.
بَطَلُ الرِّوايَةِ شابٌّ فَقيرٌ يَحلُمُ بِتَغييرِ العالَم.
The protagonist of the novel is a poor young man who dreams of changing the world.
اِستَقبَلَ النّاسُ الأَبطالَ العائِدينَ مِنَ الحَربِ بِالوُرودِ والأَهازيج.
The people welcomed the heroes returning from the war with flowers and chants.
لا يُولَدُ المَرءُ بَطَلاً، بَلْ تَصنَعُهُ المِحَنُ والمَواقِفُ الَّتي يَختارُ فيها أَنْ يَقِفَ إلى جانِبِ الحَقّ.
A person is not born a hero; rather, he is shaped by hardships and by the moments in which he chooses to stand on the side of what is right.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بَطَلٌ | أَبْطالٌ |
| Genitive | بَطَلٍ | أَبْطالٍ |
| Accusative | بَطَلاً | أَبْطالاً |
| Vocative | يا بَطَلُ | يا أَبْطالُ |
Word family
بُطُولةheroism; championship
بَطَلةheroine
بُطُوليheroic
أَبْطالheroes (plural)
Etymology
بَطَل comes from the Semitic root b-ṭ-l. The same root gives words for being void or false, such as باطِل, and classical lexicographers tied the hero to that idea: he is the one who renders his enemies' efforts null, or who holds his own life cheap in battle. The sense of hero and champion became the dominant one in modern usage.
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