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طُفُولَة
childhood /tˤuˈfuː.la/
nounB1#2568 most common
Also: infancy, childishness
Example sentences
كَانَتْ طُفُولَتِي سَعِيدَةً.
My childhood was happy.
أَتَذَكَّرُ طُفُولَتِي فِي القَرْيَةِ.
I remember my childhood in the village.
قَضَيْتُ طُفُولَتِي بَيْنَ الكُتُبِ وَالأَلْعَابِ.
I spent my childhood among books and toys.
تُؤَثِّرُ الطُّفُولَةُ بِشَكْلٍ كَبِيرٍ عَلَى شَخْصِيَّةِ الإِنْسَانِ.
Childhood greatly affects a person's character.
تَتَشَكَّلُ مَلَامِحُ الهُوِيَّةِ فِي مَرْحَلَةِ الطُّفُولَةِ المُبَكِّرَةِ.
The features of identity take shape during early childhood.
لَا يَزَالُ أَثَرُ الطُّفُولَةِ القَاسِيَةِ يُلَاحِقُهُ رَغْمَ مُرُورِ السِّنِينَ.
The mark of a harsh childhood still haunts him despite the years that have passed.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | طُفُولَةٌ | طُفُولَاتٌ |
| Genitive | طُفُولَةٍ | طُفُولَاتٍ |
| Accusative | طُفُولَةً | طُفُولَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يَا طُفُولَةُ | يَا طُفُولَاتِ |
Word family
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic triliteral root ط-ف-ل, which carries the sense of being small, soft, or tender. From this root Arabic builds طفل (child), and طُفُولَة takes the pattern فُعُولَة, which turns a root into an abstract noun naming a state or condition. So the word literally names the condition of being a طفل. Arabic is a Semitic language, not Indo-European, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root.
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