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قَتِيل
murder victim, slain person /qaˈtiːl/
nounB2#3442 most common
Also: one who has been killed, casualty (of war, disaster, or violence)
Example sentences
هَذَا الرَّجُلُ قَتِيلٌ.
This man is a murder victim.
وَجَدَتِ الشُّرْطَةُ قَتِيلًا فِي الشَّارِعِ.
The police found a murder victim in the street.
كَانَ القَتِيلُ صَدِيقًا لِلْقَاتِلِ.
The victim was a friend of the killer.
سَقَطَ عَدَدٌ مِنَ القَتْلَى فِي الزِّلْزَالِ.
A number of casualties died in the earthquake.
لَمْ تُكْشَفْ هُوِيَّةُ القَتِيلِ رَغْمَ مُرُورِ أُسْبُوعٍ عَلَى الجَرِيمَةِ.
The victim's identity has not been revealed despite a week having passed since the crime.
كَشَفَتِ التَّحْقِيقَاتُ أَنَّ القَتِيلَ كَانَ يَعْرِفُ الجَانِيَ مُسْبَقًا، مِمَّا عَزَّزَ فَرَضِيَّةَ جَرِيمَةٍ مُخَطَّطٍ لَهَا.
Investigations revealed that the victim had known the perpetrator beforehand, which strengthened the theory of a premeditated crime.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قَتِيلٌ | قَتْلَى |
| Genitive | قَتِيلٍ | قَتْلَى |
| Accusative | قَتِيلًا | قَتْلَى |
| Vocative | يَا قَتِيلُ | يَا قَتْلَى |
Word family
قَتَلَ (qatala)to kill
قَاتِل (qātil)killer, murderer
مَقْتُول (maqtūl)killed, murdered
قَتْل (qatl)killing, murder
قِتَال (qitāl)fighting, combat
Etymology
Qatīl comes from the triliteral Semitic root q-t-l, meaning to kill. The pattern fa'īl gives it a passive sense, so it denotes the one to whom killing was done rather than the one who did it. This root is old and shared across the Semitic language family, not tied to Indo-European.
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