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خَيال
imagination /xaˈjaːl/
nounB1#2112 most common
Also: fantasy, phantom, apparition, shadow, silhouette
Example sentences
خَيالُهُ واسِع.
His imagination is vast.
هَذا مِن خَيالِكَ فَقَط.
This is only from your imagination.
رَأَيْتُ خَيالاً يَتَحَرَّكُ في الظَّلام.
I saw a shadow moving in the dark.
يَملِكُ الأَطْفالُ خَيالاً خِصْباً.
Children have a fertile imagination.
مَسْرَحُ خَيالِ الظِّلِّ فَنٌّ شَعْبِيٌّ قَديم.
Shadow-play theater is an old folk art.
تَتَنَقَّلُ رِوايَتُهُ بَيْنَ الواقِعِ وَالخَيالِ بِمَهارَةٍ لافِتَةٍ.
His novel moves between reality and imagination with striking skill.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | خَيالٌ | خَيالاتٌ |
| Genitive | خَيالٍ | خَيالاتٍ |
| Accusative | خَيالاً | خَيالاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا خَيالُ | يا خَيالاتُ |
Word family
تَخَيَّلَto imagine, to picture
خَيالِيّimaginary, fictionalمُخَيِّلَةthe imagination (faculty)
خالَto suppose, to think
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root kh-y-l, tied to the verb خالَ, meaning to suppose or to imagine. From this sense of picturing what is not present, the noun took on the meanings of imagination, mental image, and phantom. In classical poetry it often named the ghostly image of a beloved that visits the poet at night.
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