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جِنْسِيَّة
nationality /d͡ʒinˈsij.ja/
nounB1#2222 most common
Also: citizenship
Example sentences
ما جِنْسِيَّتُكَ؟
What is your nationality?
جِنْسِيَّتي مِصْرِيَّة.
My nationality is Egyptian.
هَل تَحمِلُ جِنْسِيَّةً واحِدَةً أَم جِنْسِيَّتَيْن؟
Do you hold one nationality or two?
حَصَلَ على الجِنْسِيَّةِ الأَلمانِيَّةِ بَعدَ عَشرِ سَنَواتٍ.
He obtained German citizenship after ten years.
يَسمَحُ القانونُ الجَديدُ بِازدِواجِ الجِنْسِيَّةِ في حالاتٍ مُعَيَّنَة.
The new law allows dual nationality in certain cases.
أَثارَ سَحبُ الجِنْسِيَّةِ عَنِ المُعارِضينَ جَدَلاً حُقوقِيّاً واسِعاً.
Stripping the nationality from dissidents provoked a wide legal controversy.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | جِنْسِيَّةٌ | جِنْسِيَّاتٌ |
| Genitive | جِنْسِيَّةٍ | جِنْسِيَّاتٍ |
| Accusative | جِنْسِيَّةً | جِنْسِيَّاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا جِنْسِيَّةُ | يا جِنْسِيَّاتُ |
Word family
Etymology
The word is built on the noun جِنْس (jins), meaning kind, sort, or genus. That noun was borrowed into Arabic from Greek génos through Syriac. Adding the nisba suffix -iyya turns it into an abstract noun for the class a person legally belongs to, that is, a nationality.
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