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دُمْيَة
doll /ˈdum.ja/
nounB1#1929 most common
Also: figurine, puppet (figurative), statue of a beautiful woman (literary)
Example sentences
هٰذِهِ دُمْيَة.
This is a doll.
تُحِبُّ البِنْتُ دُمْيَتَها.
The girl loves her doll.
اِشْتَرَتْ لي أُمِّي دُمْيَةً جَديدَةً في عيدِ ميلادي.
My mother bought me a new doll on my birthday.
تَجْلِسُ الدُّمْيَةُ على الرَّفِّ منذُ سَنَواتٍ دونَ أن يَلْمَسَها أحد.
The doll has sat on the shelf for years without anyone touching it.
في المَتْحَفِ مَجْموعَةٌ من الدُّمَى الخَشَبِيَّةِ التي تَعودُ إلى القَرْنِ التاسِعَ عَشَرَ.
In the museum there is a collection of wooden dolls dating to the nineteenth century.
شَعَرَ بأنَّه مُجَرَّدُ دُمْيَةٍ في أيْدي الساسَةِ، يُحَرِّكونَها كيفَما شاؤوا.
He felt he was merely a doll in the hands of the politicians, who moved it however they pleased.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دُمْيَةٌ | دُمًى |
| Genitive | دُمْيَةٍ | دُمًى |
| Accusative | دُمْيَةً | دُمًى |
| Vocative | يا دُمْيَةُ | يا دُمَى |
Word family
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic triliteral rootد-م-ي, tied to the idea of likeness and image. In classical Arabic دُمْيَة named a carved statue of ivory or marble, often the figure of a beautiful woman. Modern usage narrowed the sense to a child's doll, while the figurative sense of a controlled puppet survives.
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