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غَرَض
purpose /ˈɣa.radˤ/
nounA2#794 most common
Also: aim, goal, objective, intention, motive, (plural أغراض) belongings, things
Example sentences
ما غَرَضُكَ؟
What is your aim?
ما الغَرَضُ مِنْ هٰذِهِ الزِّيارَة؟
What is the purpose of this visit?
لَيْسَ لي أَيُّ غَرَضٍ شَخْصِيٍّ في هٰذا الأَمْر.
I have no personal interest in this matter.
كانَ الغَرَضُ مِنَ القانونِ الجديدِ حِمايَةَ المُسْتَهْلِك.
The purpose of the new law was to protect the consumer.
اتَّهَمَهُ خُصومُهُ بأنَّ كلامَهُ لا يَخْلو مِنْ غَرَضٍ سياسيّ.
His opponents accused him of speech that was not free of a political motive.
حَقَّقَ النصُّ غَرَضَهُ البلاغيَّ دونَ أن يَسقُطَ في الإطنابِ المُمِلّ.
The text achieved its rhetorical purpose without lapsing into tedious verbosity.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | غَرَضٌ | أَغْرَاضٌ |
| Genitive | غَرَضٍ | أَغْرَاضٍ |
| Accusative | غَرَضًا | أَغْرَاضًا |
| Vocative | يا غَرَضُ | يا أَغْرَاضُ |
Word family
أَغْرَاضpurposes; belongings, things
مُغْرِضbiased, partial, self-interested
غَرَضِيّpurposive, teleological
غَرَضِيَّةpurposiveness, teleology
Etymology
غَرَض comes from the Arabic root غ-ر-ض. In classical usage it named the target an archer shoots at. From that concrete sense it broadened to mean the aim or purpose behind an action, and later the personal interest one has in something.
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