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شَمْسِيَّة
umbrella /ʃamˈsiː.ja/
nounB2#4352 most common
Also: parasol, sunshade
Example sentences
عِنْدِي شَمْسِيَّةٌ حَمْرَاءُ.
I have a red umbrella.
خُذْ شَمْسِيَّتَكَ لِأَنَّ الجَوَّ سَيُمْطِر.
Take your umbrella because it is going to rain.
نَسِيَتْ سَارَة شَمْسِيَّتَهَا فِي الحَافِلَة.
Sara forgot her umbrella on the bus.
فَتَحَ الرَّجُلُ شَمْسِيَّتَهُ بِسُرْعَةٍ عِنْدَمَا بَدَأَ المَطَرُ يَهْطِل.
The man quickly opened his umbrella when the rain started to pour.
تَبِيعُ هَذِهِ المَحَلَّاتُ شَمْسِيَّاتٍ مُلَوَّنَةً لِلسُّيَّاح.
These shops sell colorful umbrellas for tourists.
اِنْقَلَبَتِ الشَّمْسِيَّةُ مِن شِدَّةِ الرِّيحِ فَابْتَلَّ مَعْطَفُهُ تَمَامًا.
The umbrella turned inside out from the force of the wind, so his coat got completely soaked.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شَمْسِيَّةٌ | شَمْسِيَّاتٌ |
| Genitive | شَمْسِيَّةٍ | شَمْسِيَّاتٍ |
| Accusative | شَمْسِيَّةً | شَمْسِيَّاتٍ |
| Vocative | يَا شَمْسِيَّةُ | يَا شَمْسِيَّاتُ |
Word family
شمس (shams)sun
شمسي (shamsiyy)solar, sun-related
مشمس (mushmis)sunny
نظارة شمسية (nazzara shamsiyya)sunglasses
استشمس (istashmasa)to sunbathe
Etymology
Shamsiyya comes from the Arabic root sh-m-s, meaning sun. The base noun shams (sun) takes the nisba suffix -iyy to form the adjective shamsiyy, meaning solar or sun-related, and the feminine ending -a turns that adjective into a standalone noun. Speakers originally used it as shorthand for a phrase like sun-shade (mizalla shamsiyya), and over time the noun alone came to mean umbrella or parasol.
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