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شِجار
quarrel /ʃiˈdʒaːr/
nounB1#2516 most common
Also: fight, altercation, brawl
Example sentences
حدث شِجارٌ بين الطفلين.
A quarrel broke out between the two children.
وقع شِجار في الشارع أمس.
A fight happened in the street yesterday.
انتهى الشِجار بالصلح بين الجارين.
The quarrel ended in reconciliation between the two neighbors.
تدخّلت الشرطة لفضّ الشِجار الذي اندلع في المطعم.
Police stepped in to break up the fight that erupted in the restaurant.
كان الشِجار العائلي حول الميراث سبباً في قطيعة استمرت سنوات.
The family quarrel over the inheritance caused a rift that lasted years.
على الرغم من الشِجارات المتكررة بين الحليفين، ظلّت المصالح الاستراتيجية المشتركة كفيلة بإبقاء التحالف قائماً.
Despite repeated quarrels between the two allies, shared strategic interests kept the alliance intact.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | شِجارٌ | شِجاراتٌ |
| Genitive | شِجارٍ | شِجاراتٍ |
| Accusative | شِجاراً | شِجاراتٍ |
| Vocative | يا شِجارُ | يا شِجاراتُ |
Word family
شاجَرَto quarrel with (someone)
تَشاجَرَto quarrel with each other
مُشاجَرَةquarrel, altercation
مُتَشاجِرquarreling, in the middle of a fight
شَجَرَةtreeEtymology
شِجار is the verbal noun of the Form III verb شاجَرَ, meaning to quarrel with someone. Both trace back to the root ش-ج-ر, whose base sense is entanglement, the same root that gives شجرة, tree, from the tangled interlocking of branches. The word for a dispute grew out of that image of things crossing and knotting together, not of any outside language. It is a native Arabic development, not a borrowing.
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