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دَوْرِيّ
league (round-robin sports competition) /ˈdaw.riː/
nounB1#1840 most common
Also: round-robin tournament, championship
Example sentences
أُحِبُّ الدَّوْرِيّ.
I love the league.
مَنْ فَازَ بِالدَّوْرِيّ؟
Who won the league?
فَرِيقِي يَلْعَبُ فِي الدَّوْرِيّ الإِنْجْلِيزِيّ.
My team plays in the English league.
تَصَدَّرَ الفَرِيقُ جَدْوَلَ الدَّوْرِيّ هَذَا المَوْسِم.
The team topped the league table this season.
يُعَدُّ الدَّوْرِيّ الإِسْبَانِيّ مِنْ أَقْوَى الدَّوْرِيَّاتِ فِي العَالَم.
The Spanish league is considered one of the strongest leagues in the world.
انْسَحَبَ النَّادِي مِنَ الدَّوْرِيّ بَعْدَ خِلَافٍ مَالِيٍّ حَادٍّ مَعَ الاتِّحَاد.
The club withdrew from the league after a sharp financial dispute with the federation.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دَوْرِيٌّ | دَوْرِيَّاتٌ |
| Genitive | دَوْرِيٍّ | دَوْرِيَّاتٍ |
| Accusative | دَوْرِيًّا | دَوْرِيَّاتٍ |
| Vocative | يَا دَوْرِيّ | يَا دَوْرِيَّات |
Word family
دَوْرrole, turnدَوْرَةcycle, session
دَائِرَةcircle, department
أَدَارَto manage, to rotate
دَوَرَانrotation, spinning
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root د-و-ر (d-w-r), which means to turn or revolve. The noun دَوْر means a turn or round, and the nisba suffix ـِيّ turns it into an adjective for something cyclical. Arabic media then narrowed this sense to name a round-robin competition, where every team takes its turn against every other.
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