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قَمِيص
shirt /qaˈmiːsˤ/
nounA2#1146 most common
Also: dress shirt, tunic, gown (in fixed phrases)
Example sentences
هٰذَا قَمِيصٌ أَزْرَق.
This is a blue shirt.
أَلْبَسُ قَمِيصاً جَدِيداً اليَوْمَ.
I am wearing a new shirt today.
اِشْتَرَيْتُ قَمِيصاً قُطْنِيّاً مِنَ السُّوقِ أَمْسِ.
I bought a cotton shirt from the market yesterday.
كَانَ قَمِيصُهُ مُتَّسِخاً بَعْدَ العَمَلِ في الحَديقَة.
His shirt was dirty after working in the garden.
لَمْ يَجِدْ قَميصاً يُناسِبُ المُناسَبَةَ الرَّسْمِيَّةَ، فَاسْتَعارَ واحِداً مِنْ أَخيهِ.
He could not find a shirt suitable for the formal occasion, so he borrowed one from his brother.
ذَكَرَ القُرآنُ قَميصَ يوسُفَ الَّذي شُقَّ مِنْ دُبُرٍ دَليلاً عَلى بَراءَتِهِ.
The Quran mentions Joseph's shirt, torn from behind, as proof of his innocence.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قَمِيصٌ | قُمْصانٌ |
| Genitive | قَمِيصٍ | قُمْصانٍ |
| Accusative | قَمِيصاً | قُمْصاناً |
| Vocative | يا قَمِيصُ | يا قُمْصانُ |
Word family
قُمْصانshirts (plural)
تَقَمَّصَto assume a role; to be reincarnated
قَمَّصَto dress someone in a shirt
قُمَيْصlittle shirt (diminutive)
Etymology
The Arabic قَميص is old and appears in the Quran in the story of Joseph. It belongs to a Mediterranean cluster of words for a linen shirt that includes Latin camisia and its Romance descendants. Scholars dispute the direction of borrowing, so the words are best treated as a shared Wanderwort rather than as a single inherited form. No secure Proto-Indo-European root underlies the group.
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