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جُمْهُورِيّ
a Republican (a person who supports or belongs to a republic, or a member of a Republican political party) /dʒumˈhuːriː/
nounB2#3578 most common
Also: republican (relating to a republic, used adjectivally), member of a Republican Party (e.g. in U.S. or other politics)
Example sentences
أبي جمهوريّ.
My father is a Republican.
صديقي جمهوريّ ويحبّ الديمقراطية.
My friend is a Republican and loves democracy.
النظام الجمهوريّ يقوم على انتخاب الرئيس.
The republican system is based on electing the president.
أصبح البلد جمهوريًّا بعد سقوط الملكية.
The country became republican after the fall of the monarchy.
يدعو الحزب الجمهوريّ إلى إصلاحات دستورية عميقة.
The Republican Party calls for deep constitutional reforms.
يرى المفكّرون الجمهوريّون أنّ السيادة يجب أن تكون للشعب لا للفرد.
Republican thinkers hold that sovereignty should belong to the people, not to the individual.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | جُمْهُورِيٌّ | جُمْهُورِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | جُمْهُورِيٍّ | جُمْهُورِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | جُمْهُورِيًّا | جُمْهُورِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | يا جُمْهُورِيُّ | يا جُمْهُورِيُّونَ |
Word family
جُمْهُورthe public, the multitude, a crowd
جُمْهُورِيّةrepublic
جَمَاهِيرmasses, crowds (plural of جمهور)
جَمَاهِيرِيّof the masses, popular
تَجَمْهُرa crowding together; to gather in a crowd
Etymology
جُمْهُورِيّ is built from جُمْهُور (jumhūr), meaning 'the public' or 'the multitude', which comes from the Arabic root ج-م-ه-ر, tied to gathering and crowding together. Adding the nisba suffix -ِيّ turns the noun into a relational word meaning 'of the public', which settled into the political sense 'republican' as Arabic adopted the concept of a republic. The word is a native Arabic coinage, not a borrowing.
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