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حِرَفِيّ
craftsman /ħi.raˈfijː/
nounB1#2528 most common
Also: artisan, tradesman, skilled worker
Example sentences
هُوَ حِرَفِيّ ماهِر.
He is a skilled craftsman.
أَبي حِرَفِيّ يَصْنَعُ الأَثاث.
My father is a craftsman who makes furniture.
يَعْمَلُ الحِرَفِيُّ فِي وَرْشَتِهِ كُلَّ يَوْم.
The craftsman works in his workshop every day.
يَحْتاجُ السّوقُ إِلى حِرَفِيّينَ ماهِرينَ لِصِناعَةِ الفَخّار.
The market needs skilled craftsmen to make pottery.
تُعانِي الحِرَفُ التَّقْليدِيَّةُ مِن نَقْصٍ فِي الحِرَفِيّينَ الشَّبابِ الَّذينَ يَرْغَبونَ فِي تَعَلُّمِها.
Traditional crafts suffer from a shortage of young craftsmen willing to learn them.
يَسْعى اتِّحادُ الحِرَفِيّينَ إِلى الحِفاظِ عَلى المَهاراتِ اليَدَوِيَّةِ الَّتي تَتَوارَثُها الأَجْيالُ عَبْرَ القُرون.
The craftsmen's union works to preserve the manual skills that generations have passed down over the centuries.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | حِرَفِيٌّ | حِرَفِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | حِرَفِيٍّ | حِرَفِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | حِرَفِيًّا | حِرَفِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | يا حِرَفِيُّ | يا حِرَفِيُّونَ |
Word family
حِرْفَةcraft, trade, profession
حِرَفِيَّةcraftsmanship, professionalism
مُحْتَرِفprofessional (one who does something as a paid occupation)اِحْتَرَفَto take up as a profession, to become a professional
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic root ح-ر-ف, the same root behind حِرْفَة (trade, craft, profession). Adding the nisba suffix ـِيّ, which turns a noun into a word meaning "belonging to" or "practitioner of" that thing, produces حِرَفِيّ: someone who belongs to a craft. This is a native Semitic formation, not a borrowing.
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