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تَغَيُّر

change /taˈɣajjur/

nounB1#2764 most common

Also: transformation, alteration, variation

Example sentences

حدث تَغَيُّرٌ في الطقس.
A change occurred in the weather.
لاحظتُ تَغَيُّرًا في سلوكه.
I noticed a change in his behavior.
التَّغَيُّرُ المناخيُّ يؤثر على الجميع.
Climate change affects everyone.
تُعَدُّ التَّغَيُّراتُ الاجتماعيةُ نتيجةً للتطور التكنولوجي.
Social changes are a result of technological development.
يجب علينا التكيف مع تَغَيُّرِ الأحوال الاقتصادية.
We must adapt to the change in economic conditions.
أدّى تَغَيُّرُ درجاتِ الحرارة العالميةِ إلى تَغَيُّراتٍ جذريةٍ في النظام البيئي.
The change in global temperatures led to radical changes in the ecosystem.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeتَغَيُّرٌتَغَيُّرَاتٌ
Genitiveتَغَيُّرٍتَغَيُّرَاتٍ
Accusativeتَغَيُّرًاتَغَيُّرَاتٍ
Vocativeيا تَغَيُّرُيا تَغَيُّرَاتُ

Word family

غَيْرother, non-
غَيَّرَto change (something)
تَغَيَّرَto change, become altered
مُتَغَيِّرvariable, changing
تَغْيِيرchange, modification (of something else)

Etymology

تَغَيُّر is the verbal noun of the Form V verb تَغَيَّرَ, built on the triliteral root غ-ي-ر, which carries the core sense of otherness and difference. The tafa''ul pattern (تَفَعُّل) marks a reflexive or intransitive process, so the noun denotes the state of becoming other or different rather than the act of changing something else. That transitive sense belongs to the related Form II noun تَغْيِير. Arabic is a Semitic language, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root or IE cognates.

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