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عِرْض
honor /ˈʕirdˤ/
nounB1#2770 most common
Also: reputation, dignity, chastity (of family/self)
Example sentences
هذا عِرْضي.
This is my honor.
الدفاع عن العِرْض واجب.
Defending honor is a duty.
لا يجوز أن تمسّ عِرْض أحد بسوء.
One must not defame anyone's honor.
قال الشاعر إن العِرْض أغلى من المال.
The poet said that honor is more precious than money.
يُعتبر الحفاظ على العِرْض من القيم الأساسية في المجتمع العربي التقليدي.
Preserving honor is considered one of the fundamental values in traditional Arab society.
تناول الفقهاء مسألة صون الأعراض في باب الحدود، معتبرين القذف اعتداءً صريحاً على عِرْض الإنسان وكرامته.
Jurists addressed the protection of honor in the chapter on legal punishments, treating slander as a direct assault on a person's honor and dignity.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عِرْضٌ | أَعْرَاضٌ |
| Genitive | عِرْضٍ | أَعْرَاضٍ |
| Accusative | عِرْضًا | أَعْرَاضًا |
| Vocative | يَا عِرْضُ | يَا أَعْرَاضُ |
Word family
عَرْض (ʿarḍ)width; offer; presentation
عَرَض (ʿaraḍ)symptom; transient accident
عَريض (ʿarīḍ)wide, broad
مَعْرِض (maʿriḍ)exhibition
اِعْتِراض (iʿtirāḍ)objection
Etymology
Arabic عِرْض comes from the Semitic root ع-ر-ض (ʿ-r-ḍ), whose core sense is breadth or side. From this physical sense the language derived an abstract sense: the side of a person or family that can be exposed to attack, meaning their honor and reputation. The word is native Semitic vocabulary, not a borrowing.
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