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شَخْص
person /ˈʃaxsˤ/
nounA1#61 most common
Also: individual, someone, somebody, figure
Example sentences
هٰذا الشَّخْص لَطيف.
This person is nice.
هُناكَ شَخْص يَنتَظِرُكَ في الخارِج.
There is a person waiting for you outside.
لا أَعرِفُ أَيَّ شَخْصٍ في هٰذِهِ المَدينة.
I don't know any person in this city.
كانَ شَخْصاً مُهِمّاً في الشَّرِكة قَبلَ أَن يَستَقيل.
He was an important person in the company before he resigned.
كُلُّ شَخْصٍ مَسؤولٌ عَن أَفعالِهِ مَهما كانَت الظُّروف.
Every person is responsible for their actions no matter the circumstances.
رَأَيتُ شَخْصاً يَلوحُ في الأُفُقِ، لٰكِنّي لَم أَستَطِع تَمييزَ مَلامِحِه.
I saw a figure looming on the horizon, but I couldn't make out their features.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شَخْصٌ | أَشْخاصٌ |
| Genitive | شَخْصٍ | أَشْخاصٍ |
| Accusative | شَخْصاً | أَشْخاصاً |
| Vocative | يا شَخْصُ | يا أَشْخاصُ |
Word family
أَشْخاصpersons, people (plural)
شَخْصِيّpersonal, privateشَخْصِيّةpersonality; character; notable figure
شَخَّصَto diagnose; to personify
تَشْخيصdiagnosis; characterization
Etymology
From the triliteral Arabic root ش-خ-ص (sh-kh-ṣ), whose verb شَخَصَ (shakhaṣa) means 'to loom, rise into view, or stare fixedly.' A شَخْص was thus originally a 'figure that appears or looms into sight,' a sense that generalized to any individual human being. The same root underlies شَخْصِيّة 'personality' and تَشْخيص 'diagnosis' (identifying/characterizing something).
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