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تَمْيِيز
distinction /tamˈjiːz/
nounB2#4025 most common
Also: discrimination, differentiation, specification (grammar term)
Example sentences
الطفلُ يتعلّمُ التمييزَ بين الأحمر والأزرق.
The child is learning to distinguish between red and blue.
لا أستطيعُ التمييزَ بين هذين الصوتين.
I cannot tell these two sounds apart.
يُعَدُّ التمييزُ العنصريُّ مشكلةً كبيرةً في كثيرٍ من المجتمعات.
Racial discrimination is a major problem in many societies.
تحظرُ القوانينُ الدوليةُ التمييزَ على أساسِ الجنسِ أو الدينِ.
International law bans discrimination on the basis of gender or religion.
في النحوِ العربيِّ، يُستخدَمُ التمييزُ لتوضيحِ المقصودِ من العددِ أو الوزنِ أو الكيلِ.
In Arabic grammar, the accusative of specification (tamyiz) clarifies what a number, weight, or measure refers to.
يتطلبُ التمييزُ بين الحقيقةِ والمجازِ في النصوصِ الأدبيةِ القديمةِ حسًّا لغويًّا دقيقًا.
Telling the literal from the figurative in old literary texts takes a precise ear for language.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تَمْيِيزٌ | تَمْيِيزَاتٌ |
| Genitive | تَمْيِيزٍ | تَمْيِيزَاتٍ |
| Accusative | تَمْيِيزًا | تَمْيِيزَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا تَمْيِيزُ | يا تَمْيِيزَاتُ |
Word family
مَيَّزَto distinguish, single out
مُمَيِّزdistinctive, distinguishing
مُمَيَّزdistinguished, singled out
تَمَيُّزexcellence, standing out
مِيزَةfeature, advantageEtymology
Tamyiz is the verbal noun of the Form II verb mayyaza, built on the Semitic root m-y-z, which carries the sense of sorting or setting things apart. The ta- prefix and long i marks the tafʿil pattern that Arabic uses to form abstract nouns from Form II verbs. Arabic is a Semitic language, not Indo-European, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root.
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