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فَوْضَوِيّ
chaotic /fawdˤaˈwiːj/
adjectiveB2#4377 most common
Also: anarchic, disorderly, anarchist
Example sentences
غرفتي فوضوية جدًا.
My room is very messy.
هو طالبٌ فوضويٌّ في ترتيب أوراقه.
He is a disorganized student when it comes to arranging his papers.
كان النقاش فوضويًا ولم يصل أحد إلى نتيجة.
The discussion was chaotic and no one reached a conclusion.
وصفت التقارير الوضع الأمني بأنه فوضويّ بعد سقوط الحكومة.
The reports described the security situation as chaotic after the government's fall.
يدافع الفوضويون عن مجتمع بلا سلطة مركزية.
Anarchists advocate for a society without central authority.
رغم تنظيرهم لأفكار سياسية عميقة، اتُّهم بعض الفوضويين بتبني أساليب فوضوية أضرّت بصورة الحركة.
Despite theorizing deep political ideas, some anarchists were accused of adopting chaotic methods that hurt the movement's image.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | فَوْضَوِيٌّ | فَوْضَوِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | فَوْضَوِيٍّ | فَوْضَوِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | فَوْضَوِيًّا | فَوْضَوِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | يا فَوْضَوِيُّ | يا فَوْضَوِيُّونَ |
Word family
فوضىchaos, disorder
فوضويةanarchism
فوّضto delegate, entrust
تفويضdelegation, authorization
مفوضcommissioner, delegate
Etymology
The word comes from فوضى (fawḍā), meaning chaos or disorder, itself tied to the root ف و ض, which in classical usage carried the sense of leaving matters to individual discretion rather than central control. The nisba suffix -awiyy turns the noun into an adjective, giving fawḍawiyy, meaning chaotic or characterized by disorder. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Arabic writers adopted this same adjective, and its abstract noun فوضوية, to render the European political term anarchism, so today the word carries both an everyday sense of messiness and a political sense tied to anarchist thought.
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