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جَزِيرَة
island /d͡ʒaˈziːra/
nounA2#1047 most common
Also: isle, peninsula
Example sentences
هَذِهِ جَزِيرَةٌ جَمِيلَةٌ.
This is a beautiful island.
نَذْهَبُ إِلَى الجَزِيرَةِ فِي الصَّيْفِ.
We go to the island in summer.
تَقَعُ الجَزِيرَةُ فِي وَسَطِ البَحْرِ.
The island lies in the middle of the sea.
زُرْنَا عِدَّةَ جُزُرٍ صَغِيرَةٍ خِلَالَ رِحْلَتِنَا.
We visited several small islands during our trip.
لَمْ يَكُنْ سُكَّانُ الجَزِيرَةِ يَعْتَمِدُونَ إِلَّا عَلَى صَيْدِ السَّمَكِ.
The island's inhabitants relied on nothing but fishing.
تُعَدُّ الجَزِيرَةُ العَرَبِيَّةُ مَهْدَ الحَضَارَاتِ السَّامِيَّةِ القَدِيمَةِ.
The Arabian Peninsula is considered the cradle of the ancient Semitic civilizations.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | جَزِيرَةٌ (jazīratun) | جُزُرٌ (juzurun) |
| Genitive | جَزِيرَةٍ (jazīratin) | جُزُرٍ (juzurin) |
| Accusative | جَزِيرَةً (jazīratan) | جُزُرًا (juzuran) |
| Vocative | يَا جَزِيرَةُ (yā jazīratu) | يَا جُزُرُ (yā juzuru) |
Word family
جُزُرislands (plural)
جُزَيْرَةislet (diminutive)
شِبْه الجَزِيرَةpeninsula (literally 'semi-island')
جَزِيرِيّinsular, of an island
الجَزَائِرAlgeria (literally 'the islands')
Etymology
The word comes from the triconsonantal root ج-ز-ر, which means to cut or cut off. An island is land that the sea has cut away from the mainland, so the noun follows the faʿīla pattern with a sense of 'the cut-off one.' The plural جَزَائِر gave Algeria its Arabic name, الجَزَائِر, 'the islands.'
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