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طَيّار
pilot /tˤajˈjaːr/
nounB1#2274 most common
Also: aviator, flyer
Example sentences
أَبِي طَيّار.
My father is a pilot.
الطَّيّار في الطائرة.
The pilot is in the plane.
يُريدُ أَخي أَن يُصبِحَ طَيّاراً.
My brother wants to become a pilot.
طَلَبَ الطَّيّارُ مِنَ الرُّكّابِ رَبطَ الأَحزِمَة.
The pilot asked the passengers to fasten their seatbelts.
يَحتاجُ الطَّيّارُ إلى سَنَواتٍ طَويلَةٍ مِنَ التَّدريبِ قَبلَ قِيادَةِ طائِرَةٍ كَبيرَة.
A pilot needs many years of training before flying a large plane.
لَولا هُدوءُ الطَّيّارِ وَخِبرَتُهُ لَما نَجا الرُّكّابُ مِنَ العُطلِ الَّذي أَصابَ المُحَرِّكَ فَوقَ المُحيط.
Had it not been for the pilot's calm and experience, the passengers would not have survived the engine failure over the ocean.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | طَيّارٌ | طَيّارونَ |
| Genitive | طَيّارٍ | طَيّارينَ |
| Accusative | طَيّاراً | طَيّارينَ |
| Vocative | يا طَيّارُ | يا طَيّارونَ |
Word family
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic triliteral root ط-ي-ر, which carries the idea of flying. It follows the faʿʿāl pattern, an intensive form that names a person by a habitual trade or action. So a طَيّار is literally a habitual flyer, and the word was adopted for the aircraft pilot in the modern era.
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