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صَيْف
summer /ˈsˤajf/
nounB1#1417 most common
Also: the summer season, summertime
Example sentences
في الصَّيْفِ الجَوُّ حارٌّ.
In summer the weather is hot.
أُحِبُّ السِّباحَةَ في الصَّيْفِ.
I like swimming in summer.
نُسافِرُ إلى البَحْرِ كُلَّ صَيْفٍ.
We travel to the sea every summer.
في الصَّيْفِ الماضي زُرْنا جَدَّتي في القَرْيَةِ.
Last summer we visited my grandmother in the village.
يَشْتَدُّ الحَرُّ في أَواخِرِ الصَّيْفِ حتّى يُصبِحَ العَمَلُ ظُهْراً مُرْهِقاً.
The heat intensifies in late summer, so that working at noon becomes exhausting.
مع حُلولِ الصَّيْفِ تَتَبَدَّلُ مَلامِحُ المَدينَةِ، فَتَهْجُرُها العائِلاتُ نَحْوَ المَصايِفِ البارِدَةِ.
With the arrival of summer the character of the city changes, and families leave it for the cool summer resorts.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | صَيْفٌ | أَصْيافٌ |
| Genitive | صَيْفٍ | أَصْيافٍ |
| Accusative | صَيْفاً | أَصْيافاً |
| Vocative | يا صَيْفُ | يا أَصْيافُ |
Word family
صَيْفِيّsummer, summery
مَصيفsummer resort
صَيَّفَto spend the summer
اِصْطافَto holiday somewhere in summer
Etymology
صَيْف is the standard Arabic word for summer. It derives from a Semitic root ṣ-y-f tied to the hot season and to staying in one place through it. The same root yields the verb for spending the summer and the noun for a summer resort.
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