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صاخِب
noisy /ˈsˤaː.xib/
adjectiveB2#4243 most common
Also: loud, boisterous, rowdy
Example sentences
البيتُ صاخِبٌ.
The house is noisy.
الصفُّ صاخِبٌ اليوم.
The classroom is noisy today.
لا أحبُّ الأماكنَ الصاخِبةَ.
I don't like noisy places.
عاش طفولتَه في حيٍّ صاخِبٍ مليءٍ بالباعة.
He spent his childhood in a noisy neighborhood full of vendors.
كان السوقُ صاخِباً بأصواتِ الباعةِ والمُشترين.
The market was noisy with the voices of vendors and buyers.
رغم أنّ المدينةَ صاخِبةٌ نهاراً، إلا أنّها تغرقُ في سكونٍ عجيبٍ عند منتصفِ الليل.
Though the city is noisy by day, it sinks into a strange stillness at midnight.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | صاخِبٌ | صاخِبونَ |
| Genitive | صاخِبٍ | صاخِبينَ |
| Accusative | صاخِباً | صاخِبينَ |
| Vocative | يا صاخِبُ | يا صاخِبونَ |
Word family
صَخَبnoise, uproar, din
صَخِبَto be noisy, to clamor
صَخَّابvery noisy, clamorous (intensive)
صاخِبةnoisy (feminine form)
Etymology
صاخِب comes from the Arabic root ص-خ-ب (ṣ-kh-b), which carries the sense of shouting, clamor, and commotion. The word itself is the active participle pattern فاعِل applied to this root, so it literally means 'one that makes ṣakhab', i.e. a noisy or clamorous thing. The root also gives the verb صَخِبَ (to be noisy) and the noun صَخَب (noise, uproar).
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