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قُصارَى
utmost /qʊˈsˤɑːraː/
nounB2#3471 most common
Also: one's very best effort (in بذل قصارى جهده), in short (in قصارى القول)
Example sentences
بذل الولد قصارى جهده.
The boy exerted his utmost effort.
بذلت قصارى جهدها في الامتحان.
She put in her utmost effort on the exam.
يجب أن نبذل قصارى جهدنا لمساعدة الفقراء.
We must exert our utmost effort to help the poor.
بذل الفريق الطبي قصارى جهده لإنقاذ المريض.
The medical team exerted its utmost effort to save the patient.
قصارى القول إن الخطة لم تحقق النتائج المرجوة.
In short, the plan did not achieve the desired results.
على الرغم من بذله قصارى جهده على مدى سنوات، ظلت المشكلة بلا حل.
Despite his exerting his utmost effort over the years, the problem remained unsolved.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قُصارَى | |
| Genitive | قُصارَى | |
| Accusative | قُصارَى | |
| Vocative | قُصارَى |
Word family
قصيرshort
قصّرto shorten; to fall short, to be negligent
تقصيرnegligence, shortcoming
أقصرshorter
قصرshortening, or a confined space (palace)
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic root ق-ص-ر, which carries the core sense of shortness or falling short of a limit. قُصارَى is a feminine noun on the pattern فُعالى, a form Arabic uses for words denoting an extreme or outer bound, such as كُبرى (the greatest) and عُظمى (the supreme). Over time the sense shifted from plain shortness to the boundary beyond which nothing more can be done, hence the utmost.
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