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كَبِير
big /kaˈbiːr/
adjectiveA1#152 most common
Also: large, great, old (in age), senior
Example sentences
البيت كبير.
The house is big.
أختي الكبيرة طالبة في الجامعة.
My older sister is a student at the university.
نسكن في مدينة كبيرة قرب البحر.
We live in a big city near the sea.
يعمل في شركة كبيرة منذ خمس سنوات.
He has worked at a big company for five years.
يجتمع كبار المسؤولين اليوم لمناقشة الأزمة.
The senior officials are meeting today to discuss the crisis.
كان لهذا الاكتشاف أثر كبير في تطور الطب الحديث.
This discovery had a great impact on the development of modern medicine.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | كَبِيرٌ | كِبَارٌ |
| Genitive | كَبِيرٍ | كِبَارٍ |
| Accusative | كَبِيرًا | كِبَارًا |
| Vocative | يَا كَبِيرُ | يَا كِبَارُ |
Word family
أَكْبَرbigger, biggest, greater
كَبُرَto grow big, to grow up
كِبَرold age; largeness
تَكْبِيرenlargement; the saying of 'Allahu Akbar'
كَبِيرَةmajor sin
Etymology
كَبِير comes from the Semitic root k-b-r, which carries the sense of being big or great. The same root produces the comparative أَكْبَر (akbar), 'greater,' familiar from the phrase Allahu Akbar. Related forms with the meaning of greatness or thickness appear across the Semitic languages.
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