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تَقْلِيل
reduction /taqˈliːl/
nounB2#4150 most common
Also: decrease, lessening, minimizing
Example sentences
يجب تقليل استخدام السكر.
We must reduce sugar use.
تقليل الوزن يحتاج إلى وقت.
Losing weight takes time.
تحاول الحكومة تقليل البطالة في البلاد.
The government is trying to reduce unemployment in the country.
يساعد تقليل النفايات على حماية البيئة.
Reducing waste helps protect the environment.
أدى تقليل الإنفاق العام إلى تباطؤ النمو الاقتصادي.
Cutting public spending led to a slowdown in economic growth.
من الصعب تقليل تعقيد النظام دون التضحية بمرونته.
It is hard to reduce the system's complexity without sacrificing its flexibility.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تَقْلِيلٌ | تَقْلِيلاتٌ |
| Genitive | تَقْلِيلٍ | تَقْلِيلاتٍ |
| Accusative | تَقْلِيلاً | تَقْلِيلاتٍ |
| Vocative | None | None |
Word family
قلّلto reduce, lessen
قليلlittle, few
قلّةscarcity, shortage
أقلless, fewer, least
استقلالindependence
Etymology
تقليل is the verbal noun of the Form II verb قلّل, meaning to make something small or few. Both come from the Semitic root ق-ل-ل, whose core sense is scarcity or smallness. The same root gives Arabic its everyday word for 'few', قليل, and the word for independence, استقلال, which originally meant to treat something as too slight to depend on others for.
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