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قَبِيل

kind, sort (a class or category of things) /qaˈbiːl/

nounB1#1449 most common

Also: sort, type, category, class, group, tribe

Example sentences

هَذَا مِنْ قَبِيلِ المِزَاحِ.
This is a kind of joke.
كَلَامُهُ مِنْ قَبِيلِ النُّصْحِ.
His words are by way of advice.
اِعْتَبَرَ المُعَلِّمُ سُؤَالَهُ مِنْ قَبِيلِ الفُضُولِ.
The teacher treated his question as a form of curiosity.
هَؤُلَاءِ قَبِيلٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ لَا يُؤْمَنُ جَانِبُهُمْ.
These are a sort of people whose company is not safe.
مَا قَالَهُ الوَزِيرُ لَيْسَ مِنْ قَبِيلِ المُبَالَغَةِ، بَلْ تَحْذِيرٌ صَرِيحٌ.
What the minister said is not an exaggeration, but a clear warning.
يَرَى الفَيْلَسُوفُ أَنَّ كَثِيرًا مِمَّا نُسَمِّيهِ يَقِينًا هُوَ فِي حَقِيقَتِهِ مِنْ قَبِيلِ الظَّنِّ المُرَتَّبِ.
The philosopher holds that much of what we call certainty is in truth a kind of ordered conjecture.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeقَبِيلٌقُبُلٌ
Genitiveقَبِيلٍقُبُلٍ
Accusativeقَبِيلًاقُبُلًا
Vocativeيا قَبِيلُيا قُبُلُ

Word family

قَبِيلة (qabīla)tribe
قَبِلَ (qabila)to accept
قَبْل (qabl)before
مُقابَلة (muqābala)meeting, interview
اِسْتِقْبال (istiqbāl)reception, welcoming

Etymology

قَبِيل comes from the Semitic root q-b-l, which carries the sense of facing, meeting, and accepting. From the picture of people set face to face came the meaning of a group or tribe, and from there the sense of a class or kind. The same root gives Arabic qabla (before), qabila (to accept), and mustaqbal (future).

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