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سِيادَة
sovereignty /siˈjaː.da/
nounB1#2403 most common
Also: leadership, supremacy, mastery
Example sentences
هذِهِ سِيادَةُ الدَّوْلَةِ.
This is the sovereignty of the state.
نَحْنُ نَحْتَرِمُ سِيادَةَ بَلَدِنا.
We respect the sovereignty of our country.
تُدافِعُ الحُكومَةُ عَنْ سِيادَةِ أَراضيها.
The government defends the sovereignty of its territory.
انْتَهَكَتِ القُوّاتُ الأَجْنَبِيَّةُ سِيادَةَ البِلادِ.
Foreign forces violated the sovereignty of the country.
يُعَدُّ احْتِرامُ سِيادَةِ الدُّوَلِ مَبْدَأً أَساسِيًّا في القانونِ الدَّوْليِّ.
Respecting the sovereignty of states is considered a fundamental principle of international law.
أَثارَ التَّدَخُّلُ الخارِجِيُّ جَدَلًا واسِعًا حَوْلَ مَدى التِزامِ المُجْتَمَعِ الدَّوْليِّ بِمَبْدَأِ سِيادَةِ القانونِ وَعَدَمِ المَساسِ بِاسْتِقْلالِيَّةِ القَرارِ الوَطَنِيِّ.
The foreign intervention sparked wide debate over the international community's commitment to the rule of law and non-interference in national decision-making.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | سِيادَةٌ | سِيادَاتٌ |
| Genitive | سِيادَةٍ | سِيادَاتٍ |
| Accusative | سِيادَةً | سِيادَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا سِيادَةُ | يا سِيادَاتُ |
Word family
سَيِّدlord, master, Mr.
سَيِّدَةlady, Mrs.
سَادَto rule, to prevail
سِيادِيّsovereign, relating to sovereignty
Etymology
سِيادَة is the verbal noun of the hollow verb سَادَ (yasūdu), meaning to rule, to prevail, or to be master. Both belong to the Semitic root س-و-د, which also gives سَيِّد (sayyid, lord or master). The word kept its old sense of lordship but in Modern Standard Arabic it is now the standard term for political sovereignty. Arabic is a Semitic language, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root.
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