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عُضْو
member /ˈʕudˤw/
nounA1#665 most common
Also: organ (of the body), limb
Example sentences
هُوَ عُضْو في النادي.
He is a member of the club.
أُريدُ أن أكونَ عُضْواً في الفريق.
I want to be a member of the team.
كُلُّ عُضْو في اللجنة له رأيٌ.
Every member of the committee has an opinion.
انتُخِبَ عُضْواً جديداً في مجلس الإدارة.
He was elected a new member of the board.
القلبُ عُضْوٌ حيويٌّ في جسم الإنسان.
The heart is a vital organ in the human body.
يتمتّع كلُّ عُضْو في المنظمة بحقوقٍ وواجباتٍ متساوية أمام القانون.
Every member of the organization enjoys equal rights and duties before the law.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عُضْوٌ | أعْضاءٌ |
| Genitive | عُضْوٍ | أعْضاءٍ |
| Accusative | عُضْواً | أعْضاءً |
| Vocative | يا عُضْوُ | يا أعْضاءُ |
Word family
عُضْوِيّةmembership
عُضْوِيّorganic
أعْضاءmembers; organs (plural)
عُضْوِيّاًorganically
Etymology
عُضْو comes from the Semitic root ʿ-ḍ-w. The older sense is a limb or organ of the body. By extension it came to mean a member of a group, since each member forms one part of a larger whole. Both meanings remain current in modern Arabic.
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