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تَأْجِيل
postponement /taʔˈdʒiːl/
nounB2#3595 most common
Also: delay, deferral, adjournment
Example sentences
تم تأجيل الاجتماع.
The meeting was postponed.
طلبتُ تأجيل الامتحان.
I requested a postponement of the exam.
قررت الشركة تأجيل الإعلان عن المنتج الجديد.
The company decided to postpone the announcement of the new product.
أدى تأجيل الرحلة إلى غضب الركاب في المطار.
The flight's postponement angered the passengers at the airport.
لا يمكن تأجيل هذا القرار أكثر من ذلك لأن الوقت ينفد.
This decision cannot be postponed any further, because time is running out.
على الرغم من تأجيله المتكرر للمشروع، تمكّن في النهاية من إنهائه قبل الموعد النهائي.
Despite his repeated postponement of the project, he managed in the end to finish it before the deadline.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تَأْجِيلٌ | تَأْجِيلَاتٌ |
| Genitive | تَأْجِيلٍ | تَأْجِيلَاتٍ |
| Accusative | تَأْجِيلًا | تَأْجِيلَاتٍ |
| Vocative | تَأْجِيلٌ | تَأْجِيلَاتٌ |
Word family
أَجَّلَto postpone, to defer
مُؤَجَّلpostponed, deferred
أَجَلappointed term, deadline; also fate/death
آجِلdeferred, to come laterEtymology
تَأْجِيل is the verbal noun (masdar) of the Form II verb أَجَّلَ, meaning to postpone or grant a delay. Both trace back to the Semitic root ء-ج-ل, which carries the sense of a fixed term or appointed time. The تفعيل pattern turns that root into an abstract noun for the act of pushing a deadline back.
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