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جاذِبِيَّة
gravity /dʒaː.ðɪˈbij.ja/
nounB1#2797 most common
Also: attractiveness, appeal, charisma
Example sentences
تُبقينا الجاذبية على الأرض.
Gravity keeps us on the ground.
جاذبية القمر أقل من جاذبية الأرض.
The moon's gravity is less than Earth's gravity.
تتحكم الجاذبية في حركة الكواكب حول الشمس.
Gravity controls the movement of the planets around the sun.
يتمتع ذلك الممثل بجاذبية كبيرة أمام الجمهور.
That actor has great charisma in front of an audience.
نشر نيوتن قانون الجاذبية العام في القرن السابع عشر.
Newton published the law of universal gravitation in the seventeenth century.
تسعى وكالات الفضاء إلى فهم كيفية تأثير انعدام الجاذبية على جسم الإنسان خلال الرحلات الطويلة إلى الفضاء.
Space agencies seek to understand how the absence of gravity affects the human body during long space journeys.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | جاذبيةٌ | جاذبياتٌ |
| Genitive | جاذبيةٍ | جاذبياتٍ |
| Accusative | جاذبيةً | جاذبياتٍ |
| Vocative | يا جاذبيةُ | يا جاذبياتُ |
Word family
جذبto pull, attract
جاذبattractive, pulling
جذّابvery attractive, charming
انجذابattraction, being drawn to something
مجذوبone who is drawn in or entranced
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic triliteral root ج-ذ-ب (jadhaba), meaning to pull or draw something toward oneself. Its active participle جاذب (jādhib, "pulling, attracting") takes the abstract-noun suffix ية, giving جاذبية, literally "the quality of attracting." Modern Standard Arabic settled on it as the standard scientific term for physical gravity during the nineteenth and twentieth century scientific revival, while it kept its older, everyday sense of personal charm or appeal.
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