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عارِي
naked (person), nude /ˈʕaː.riː/
nounB1#2349 most common
Also: bare, unclothed one, exposed
Example sentences
هو عارٍ.
He is naked.
الطفل عارٍ في الحمّام.
The child is naked in the bathroom.
رأيتُ رجلاً عاريًا يركض في الشارع.
I saw a naked man running in the street.
خرجتِ الممثلةُ عاريةَ الكتفين في الحفلِ.
The actress went out with bare shoulders at the party.
وقف الجنديُّ عاريَ الصدرِ تحت الشمسِ الحارقةِ يقاوم الإعياءَ.
The soldier stood bare-chested under the scorching sun, resisting exhaustion.
تكشفُ اللوحةُ عن جسدٍ عارٍ يعبّرُ عن هشاشةِ الإنسانِ أمامَ الطبيعةِ وعجزِه عن مقاومةِ مصيرِه.
The painting reveals a naked body that expresses humanity's fragility before nature and its inability to resist its fate.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عارٍ / العاري | عُراة |
| Genitive | عارٍ / العاري | عُراة |
| Accusative | عاريًا / العاريَ | عُراة |
| Vocative | يا عاري | يا عُراة |
Word family
عُريnakedness, nudity
عاريةnaked (feminine form)
عرّىto strip someone bare, to denude
تعرّىto undress, to strip oneself
تعريةdenudation, exposure
Etymology
The word comes from the triliteral Semitic root ع-ر-ي (ʿ-r-y), meaning to be bare or stripped of covering. عارِي is the active-participle form, built on the pattern فاعِل, and it works in Arabic as both an adjective and a substantive noun for a naked person. The same root gives Arabic words for nudity and for exposing or laying bare a surface.
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