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جانِبِيّ
lateral, side (as in side road, side door, side effect) /dʒaː.niˈbijː/
adjectiveB1#2793 most common
Also: marginal, secondary, peripheral
Example sentences
هذا الطريق جانِبِيّ.
This road is a side road.
أشعر بألم جانِبِيّ في بطني.
I feel a side pain in my stomach.
وقفت السيارة أمام باب جانِبِيّ في المبنى.
The car stopped in front of a side door in the building.
لهذا الدواء أعراض جانِبِيّة قد تشمل الصداع والدوار.
This medicine has side effects that may include headache and dizziness.
أغلقت البلدية الشارع الجانِبِيّ بسبب أعمال الصيانة.
The municipality closed the side street because of maintenance work.
تناولت الدراسة التأثيرات الجانِبِيّة لهذا القرار الاقتصادي على الفئات الفقيرة.
The study examined the side effects of this economic decision on poor groups.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | جانِبِيٌّ | جانِبِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | جانِبِيٍّ | جانِبِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | جانِبِيًّا | جانِبِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | يا جانِبِيُّ | يا جانِبِيُّونَ |
Word family
Etymology
جانِبِيّ comes from the noun جانِب, meaning side or flank, built on the triliteral root ج-ن-ب, which carries the core idea of a side or a flank. Adding the nisba suffix ـِيّ turns the noun into an adjective meaning of the side, or lateral. Because Arabic is a Semitic language rather than an Indo-European one, it has no Proto-Indo-European root or Indo-European cognates.
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