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حاضِر

present /ˈħaː.dˤir/

adjectiveB1#2312 most common

Also: ready, at your service (yes, of course)

Example sentences

أنا حاضِر.
I am present.
هل أنتَ حاضِر الآن؟
Are you present now?
الطعام حاضِر على المائدة.
The food is ready on the table.
كانت كل الطالبات حاضِرات في الصف.
All the female students were present in the class.
قال الجندي: حاضِر يا سيدي، سأنفّذ الأمر فوراً.
The soldier said: Yes sir, I will carry out the order at once.
من كان حاضِراً للاجتماع يعرف أنّ القرار اتُّخِذ بالإجماع دون اعتراض.
Whoever was present at the meeting knows that the decision was taken unanimously without objection.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeحاضِرٌحاضِرونَ
Genitiveحاضِرٍحاضِرينَ
Accusativeحاضِراًحاضِرينَ
Vocativeيا حاضِرُيا حاضِرونَ

Word family

حَضَرَto be present, to attend
حُضورpresence, attendance
حَضارةcivilization
مُحاضَرةlecture
حاضِرةcapital city, metropolis

Etymology

The word is the active participle of the verb حَضَرَ, to be present or to attend. It comes from the Semitic root ح-ض-ر, which carries the sense of presence and of settled life, in contrast to the roaming of the desert. The same root gives حَضارة, civilization, the settled state of a people.

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