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جَنْب
side (of the body, or of an object) /ˈdʒanb/
nounB1#2772 most common
Also: flank, beside (in prepositional phrases like بجنب/إلى جنب)
Example sentences
نامَ الطِّفلُ عَلَى جَنْبِهِ.
The child slept on his side.
جَلَسَتْ بِجَنْبِي فِي الحافِلَةِ.
She sat by my side on the bus.
شَعَرَ بِأَلَمٍ فِي جَنْبِهِ الأَيْمَنِ.
He felt a pain in his right side.
وَقَفَ الحُرّاسُ جَنْبًا إلى جَنْبٍ أمامَ البَوّابَةِ.
The guards stood side by side in front of the gate.
ضَعِ الحَقِيبَةَ إلى جَنْبِ الطّاوِلَةِ.
Put the bag next to the table.
فِي جَنْبِ هذِهِ القَضِيَّةِ الكُبْرى، تَبْدو مَشاكِلُنا صَغيرَةً.
Beside this great issue, our problems look small.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | جَنْبٌ | جُنُوبٌ |
| Genitive | جَنْبٍ | جُنُوبٍ |
| Accusative | جَنْبًا | جُنُوبًا |
| Vocative | يا جَنْبُ | يا جُنُوبُ |
Word family
جانِبside, aspect (e.g., بجانب "beside")
أجْنَبِيّforeign; a foreigner
اِجْتَنَبَto avoid, keep away from
جَنَّبَto spare someone from (something)
جَنُوبsouthEtymology
جَنْب comes from the Semitic root ج-ن-ب (j-n-b), whose core sense is "side" or "flank." The same root gives Arabic verbs meaning "to keep to one side" and, by extension, "to avoid." Because Arabic is a Semitic language, not an Indo-European one, it has no Proto-Indo-European root.
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