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خَشَبِيّ
wooden /xa.ʃaˈbijː/
adjectiveB2#3999 most common
Also: made of wood, stiff, wooden (of a performance or manner)
Example sentences
هٰذا كُرْسِيٌّ خَشَبِيٌّ.
This is a wooden chair.
اِشْتَرَيْتُ طَاوِلَةً خَشَبِيَّةً جَدِيدَةً.
I bought a new wooden table.
يَعِيشُ فِي بَيْتٍ خَشَبِيٍّ صَغِيرٍ قُرْبَ الغَابَةِ.
He lives in a small wooden house near the forest.
صَنَعَ النَّجَّارُ سَفِينَةً خَشَبِيَّةً تَقْلِيدِيَّةً بِيَدَيْهِ.
The carpenter made a traditional wooden ship with his own hands.
تُسْتَخْدَمُ الأَرْضِيَّاتُ الخَشَبِيَّةُ فِي المَنَازِلِ الأُورُوبِّيَّةِ لِأَنَّهَا تَعْزِلُ الحَرَارَةَ جَيِّدًا.
Wooden floors are used in European homes because they insulate heat well.
عَلَى الرَّغْمِ مِنْ أَنَّ الجِسْرَ الخَشَبِيَّ القَدِيمَ يَبْدُو هَشًّا، إِلَّا أَنَّهُ صَمَدَ أَمَامَ الفَيَضَانَاتِ لِعُقُودٍ.
Although the old wooden bridge looks fragile, it has withstood floods for decades.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | خَشَبِيٌّ | خَشَبِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | خَشَبِيٍّ | خَشَبِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | خَشَبِيًّا | خَشَبِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | يَا خَشَبِيُّ | يَا خَشَبِيُّونَ |
Word family
خَشَبwood, timber
خَشَبَةa piece of wood, plank, log
خَشَّابlumber dealer, woodcutter
تَخَشُّبlignification, becoming stiff or wood-like
Etymology
خَشَبِيّ is built from the Arabic noun خَشَب (khashab), meaning wood or timber, plus the nisba suffix ـِيّ, which turns a noun into a relative adjective meaning 'of or belonging to' that thing. So خَشَبِيّ literally means 'of wood, wood-like.' This is a native Semitic root, not an Indo-European one, so it has no Proto-Indo-European ancestor.
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