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خائِن
traitor /ˈxaː.ʔin/
nounB1#2040 most common
Also: betrayer, disloyal person, cheat
Example sentences
أنتَ خائِن.
You are a traitor.
هذا الرجل خائِن ولا يستحق الثقة.
This man is a traitor and does not deserve trust.
اعتُقل الخائِن الذي باع أسرار البلاد.
The traitor who sold the country's secrets was arrested.
كان صديقًا مقرّبًا، لكنه تحوّل إلى خائِن في أصعب الأوقات.
He was a close friend, but he became a traitor at the hardest times.
يرى المؤرخون أنّ الخائِن الذي فتح أبواب المدينة غيّر مجرى الحرب.
Historians hold that the traitor who opened the city's gates changed the course of the war.
من يخون وطنه مرّة يبقى في نظر الناس خائِنًا مهما تظاهر بالإخلاص.
Whoever betrays his homeland once stays a traitor in people's eyes, however much he feigns loyalty.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | خائِنٌ | خائِنونَ |
| Genitive | خائِنٍ | خائِنينَ |
| Accusative | خائِناً | خائِنينَ |
| Vocative | يا خائِنُ | يا خائِنونَ |
Word family
Etymology
The word is the active participle of the verb خان (khāna), "to betray," from the triliteral root خ-و-ن. It names the one who does the betraying. The related noun خِيانة means "betrayal" or "treason."
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