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عُنْصُرِيّ
racist /ʕunsˤuˈriːj/
adjectiveB2#4054 most common
Also: racial, discriminatory
Example sentences
هو رجل عنصري.
He is a racist man.
لا تكن عنصريًا مع زملائك.
Don't be racist toward your colleagues.
خطابه كان عنصريًا ضد المهاجرين.
His speech was racist against immigrants.
تصاعدت الاحتجاجات ضد النظام العنصري في البلاد.
Protests against the racist system in the country escalated.
يرفض المجتمع الدولي أي شكل من أشكال التمييز العنصري.
The international community rejects any form of racial discrimination.
أدانت المنظمات الحقوقية الخطاب العنصري المتصاعد في وسائل الإعلام، محذرة من تداعياته على التماسك الاجتماعي.
Human rights organizations condemned the rising racist rhetoric in the media, warning of its effects on social cohesion.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عُنْصُرِيٌّ | عُنْصُرِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | عُنْصُرِيٍّ | عُنْصُرِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | عُنْصُرِيًّا | عُنْصُرِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | يا عُنْصُرِيُّ | يا عُنْصُرِيُّونَ |
Word family
عُنْصُرelement; race, ethnic stock
عُنْصُرِيّةracism
تَمْيِيز عُنْصُرِيّracial discrimination
عُنْصُرِيُّونracists
Etymology
The word builds on the Arabic noun عُنْصُر ("element," also "race" or "ethnic stock"), from the native Semitic root ع-ن-ص-ر, which carries the sense of origin or basic component. Adding the nisba suffix ـِيّ, which turns nouns into "relating to" adjectives, produces عُنْصُرِيّ, literally "of the element" and by extension "racial" or "racist." The modern political sense, tied to race and discrimination, spread through 20th-century Arabic press and political writing.
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