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عُنْصُر
element /ˈʕunsˤur/
nounB1#2353 most common
Also: component, factor, race/ethnic group
Example sentences
الأكسجين عنصر كيميائي.
Oxygen is a chemical element.
الثقة عنصر أساسي في الصداقة.
Trust is a basic element in friendship.
الوقت عنصر مهم في نجاح أي مشروع.
Time is an important factor in the success of any project.
تحتوي هذه الصخرة على عناصر معدنية نادرة.
This rock contains rare mineral elements.
يشكّل العنصر البشري أكبر تحدٍ في إدارة الأزمات.
The human element is the biggest challenge in crisis management.
لا يمكن إغفال العنصر الثقافي عند تحليل جذور النزاعات الإقليمية المعقدة.
One cannot ignore the cultural element when analyzing the roots of complex regional conflicts.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عُنْصُرٌ | عَنَاصِرُ |
| Genitive | عُنْصُرٍ | عَنَاصِرَ |
| Accusative | عُنْصُراً | عَنَاصِرَ |
| Vocative | يَا عُنْصُرُ | يَا عَنَاصِرُ |
Word family
عناصرelements (plural)
عنصريracial; elemental
عنصريةracism
عنصريّ الطابعof an elemental/racial character
Etymology
Classical Arabic dictionaries such as Lisan al-Arab already record ʿunṣur with the sense of a person's origin or lineage, so the word is old in the language rather than a recent coinage. Modern scientific Arabic took this older sense of 'origin, basic constituent' and narrowed it to mean 'chemical element' as the periodic table and modern chemistry were translated into Arabic in the 19th and 20th centuries. Arabic is a Semitic language, so it has no Indo-European root to trace.
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