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تَذْكارِيّ
commemorative /tæðkaːˈriː/
adjectiveB2#4298 most common
Also: memorial, souvenir (attributive)
Example sentences
هذا طابع تذكاري.
This is a commemorative stamp.
اشتريت هدية تذكارية من السوق.
I bought a commemorative gift from the market.
أقاموا حفلاً تذكارياً لذكرى الاستقلال.
They held a commemorative ceremony for the independence anniversary.
بُني النصب التذكاري تكريماً للجنود الذين ضحوا بحياتهم.
The memorial monument was built to honor the soldiers who sacrificed their lives.
أصدرت الحكومة عملة تذكارية بمناسبة مرور خمسين عاماً على تأسيس الدولة.
The government issued a commemorative coin to mark fifty years since the state's founding.
تحوّلت الساحة إلى نصب تذكاريّ يخلّد ذكرى الضحايا الذين سقطوا خلال الثورة.
The square was turned into a memorial that keeps alive the memory of the victims who fell during the revolution.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تَذْكاريٌّ | تَذْكاريّونَ |
| Genitive | تَذْكاريٍّ | تَذْكاريّينَ |
| Accusative | تَذْكارِيًّا | تَذْكاريّينَ |
| Vocative | تَذْكاريُّ | تَذْكاريّونَ |
Word family
تذكارremembrance, souvenir
ذكرىmemory, anniversary
تذكرةticket, reminder note
تذكّرto remember, recall
ذاكرةmemory (the faculty)
Etymology
تَذْكارِيّ comes from تَذْكار, a noun meaning 'remembrance' or 'keepsake', built on the root ذ-ك-ر, which carries the sense of remembering or mentioning. Adding the nisba suffix ـيّ converts the noun into an adjective, giving the sense 'relating to remembrance', hence 'commemorative' or 'memorial'. Arabic is a Semitic language, so no Proto-Indo-European root applies here.
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