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عِنايَة
care /ʕiˈnaː.ja/
nounB1#1823 most common
Also: attention, nursing, looking after
Example sentences
النباتات تحتاج إلى عِنايَة.
Plants need care.
شكراً على عِنايَتِكَ بي.
Thank you for your care for me.
نُقِل المريض إلى قسم العِنايَة المركزة.
The patient was moved to the intensive care unit.
تتطلب هذه المخطوطات القديمة عِنايَة خاصة عند الترميم.
These old manuscripts require special care during restoration.
أولى الطبيب المُسِنّ عِنايَةً فائقة، فلم يترك تفصيلاً صغيراً دون متابعة.
The doctor gave the elderly man the utmost care, leaving no small detail unattended.
لولا العِنايَةُ الدقيقةُ التي حظي بها الجريح في الساعات الأولى لما كُتِبت له النجاة.
Had it not been for the meticulous care the wounded man received in the first hours, he would not have survived.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عِنايَةٌ | عِناياتٌ |
| Genitive | عِنايَةٍ | عِناياتٍ |
| Accusative | عِنايَةً | عِناياتٍ |
| Vocative | يا عِنايَةُ | يا عِناياتُ |
Word family
اِعْتَنَىto take care of, to look after
عُنِيَto be concerned with
مَعْنِيّconcerned, involved
اِعْتِناءthe act of caring for
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic triliteral root ع-ن-ي (ʿ-n-y), which carries the sense of being concerned with something or attending to it. The same root yields the verb عَنَى, to mean or to concern, and the noun مَعْنَى, meaning. عِنايَة follows the فِعالة pattern, which often forms abstract nouns of activity. The link runs from holding a thing in mind to looking after it.
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