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قَوْمِيّ
national /qawˈmijj/
adjectiveA2#1283 most common
Also: nationalist, nationalistic, pertaining to the nation or people
Example sentences
هٰذا حِزْبٌ قَوْمِيٌّ.
This is a nationalist party.
الأَمْنُ القَوْمِيُّ مُهِمٌّ جِدًّا.
National security is very important.
يَدْعُو الحِزْبُ إلى وَحْدَةٍ قَوْمِيَّةٍ بَيْنَ العَرَبِ.
The party calls for national unity among the Arabs.
يَرى كَثيرٌ مِنَ المُفَكِّرينَ أنَّ المَشْروعَ القَوْمِيَّ العَرَبِيَّ فَشِلَ بَعْدَ عامِ ١٩٦٧.
Many thinkers believe that the Arab nationalist project failed after 1967.
اِتَّخَذَ الخِطابُ القَوْمِيُّ طابَعًا أيْديولوجِيًّا حادًّا خِلالَ الحِقْبَةِ النّاصِرِيَّةِ.
Nationalist discourse took on a sharp ideological character during the Nasserist era.
لا يُمْكِنُ فَهْمُ صُعودِ التَّيّاراتِ القَوْمِيَّةِ في المَشْرِقِ بِمَعْزِلٍ عَنْ تَفَكُّكِ الإمْبراطورِيَّةِ العُثْمانِيَّةِ وما تَلاها مِنِ انْتِداباتٍ اسْتِعْماريَّةٍ.
The rise of nationalist currents in the Levant cannot be understood apart from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the colonial mandates that followed.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قَوْمِيٌّ | قَوْمِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | قَوْمِيٍّ | قَوْمِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | قَوْمِيًّا | قَوْمِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | يا قَوْمِيُّ | يا قَوْمِيُّونَ |
Word family
قَوْم (qawm)people, folk, nation
قَوْمِيَّة (qawmiyya)nationalism, nationality
قامَ (qāma)to stand up, rise
مَقام (maqām)station, place, rank
أقامَ (aqāma)to establish, set up, reside
Etymology
قَوْمِيّ is built from the noun قَوْم (qawm), 'a people' or 'nation,' plus the relational suffix -iyy that turns nouns into adjectives. Both trace to the Semitic root q-w-m, 'to stand or rise,' carrying the sense of a group that stands together. The political meaning, 'nationalist,' is modern and grew with the rise of Arab nationalism in the twentieth century.
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