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شَعْب
people (a people, nation) /ˈʃaʕb/
nounA2#1244 most common
Also: nation, the public, the populace, folk
Example sentences
الشَّعْبُ سَعيدٌ.
The people are happy.
يُحِبُّ الشَّعْبُ بَلَدَهُ.
The people love their country.
صَوَّتَ الشَّعْبُ في الانْتِخاباتِ أَمْس.
The people voted in the elections yesterday.
طالَبَ الشَّعْبُ بِالإصْلاحِ والعَدالةِ الاجْتِماعِيّة.
The people demanded reform and social justice.
عَبَّرَ الشَّعْبُ عَنْ غَضَبِهِ مِنَ السِّياساتِ الاقْتِصادِيّةِ الجَديدة.
The people expressed their anger at the new economic policies.
تَتَكوَّنُ الأُمّةُ مِنْ شُعوبٍ مُتَعَدِّدةٍ تَجْمَعُها لُغةٌ وتاريخٌ مُشْتَرَك.
The nation is made up of many peoples bound together by a shared language and history.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شَعْبٌ | شُعوبٌ |
| Genitive | شَعْبٍ | شُعوبٍ |
| Accusative | شَعْباً | شُعوباً |
| Vocative | يا شَعْبُ | يا شُعوبُ |
Word family
شُعْبةbranch, division
شَعْبِيّpopular, of the peopleشَعْبِيّةpopularity
شَعَّبَto branch, to ramify
شُعوبpeoples (plural)
Etymology
شَعْب comes from the Semitic root ش-ع-ب, which carries senses of both branching apart and gathering together. From the notion of people grouped as one comes the meaning of a people or nation. The same root yields شُعْبة, a branch or division, and شِعْب, a mountain pass. Arabic uses شَعْب widely in political speech to name the citizenry as a body.
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