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غَرابَة
strangeness /ɣaˈraː.ba/
nounB1#2253 most common
Also: oddness, peculiarity, weirdness
Example sentences
لا غَرابَةَ في ذلك.
There is nothing strange about that.
في كلامِهِ غَرابَة.
There is something odd in his speech.
شعرتُ بِغَرابَة حين دخلتُ الغرفة.
I felt a strangeness when I entered the room.
لاحظتُ غَرابَة في تصرّفاتِهِ اليوم.
I noticed a strangeness in his behavior today.
رغمَ غَرابَة الفكرة، قرّرنا أن نجرّبها.
Despite the strangeness of the idea, we decided to try it.
تكمنُ غَرابَة هذه الرواية في مزجِها بين الواقع والخيال.
The strangeness of this novel lies in its blending of reality and fantasy.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | غَرابةٌ | غَراباتٌ |
| Genitive | غَرابةٍ | غَراباتٍ |
| Accusative | غَرابةً | غَراباتٍ |
| Vocative | يا غَرابةُ | يا غَراباتُ |
Word family
غَريبstrange, foreign
غُربةestrangement, being far from home
غَربwest
اِغْتَرَبَto emigrate, to be alienated
أَغْرَبَto do something odd, to astonish
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root غ-ر-ب (gh-r-b), which carries the sense of going away, being distant, and the west where the sun sets. From this idea of distance grew the notion of the foreign and the strange. غَرابَة is the abstract noun of quality, the state of being strange, built on the فَعالة pattern.
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