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صَيْفِيّ
summer (adj.), summery /sˤajˈfijː/
adjectiveB2#4242 most common
Also: estival, of or relating to summer
Example sentences
هذا فستانٌ صيفيٌّ.
This is a summer dress.
أرتدي ملابس صيفية في شهر يوليو.
I wear summer clothes in July.
نخطط لقضاء عطلة صيفية على الشاطئ.
We are planning to spend a summer vacation at the beach.
تُقام المدرسة الصيفية في الجامعة كل عام.
The summer school is held at the university every year.
ارتفعت درجات الحرارة الصيفية هذا العام بشكل ملحوظ.
Summer temperatures rose noticeably this year.
أصبحت المهرجانات الصيفية تقليدًا سنويًا يجذب آلاف الزوار إلى المدينة الساحلية.
Summer festivals have become an annual tradition that draws thousands of visitors to the coastal city.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | صَيْفِيٌّ | صَيْفِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | صَيْفِيٍّ | صَيْفِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | صَيْفِيًّا | صَيْفِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | صَيْفِيُّ | صَيْفِيُّونَ |
Word family
صَيْفsummer
مَصيفsummer resort, summer retreat
اِصطيافthe act of summering, summer vacationing
مُصطافsummer vacationer, holidaymaker
صَيْفِيّةsummer (feminine agreement form)
Etymology
The word comes from the triliteral Semitic root ص-ي-ف (ṣ-y-f), which gives the noun صَيْف (ṣayf), meaning summer or the hot dry season. Adding the nisba suffix ـِيّ (-iyy), a common device in Arabic for turning a noun into a relative adjective, produces صَيْفِيّ, meaning of or relating to summer. The same root also underlies words for spending the summer and summer resorts.
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