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لاعِب
player /ˈlaːʕib/
nounA2#1333 most common
Also: athlete, sportsman, competitor
Example sentences
اللاعِبُ سَريعٌ.
The player is fast.
هذا اللاعِبُ يَلعَبُ في فَريقِنا.
This player plays on our team.
أَصبَحَ أخي لاعِبَ كُرَةِ قَدَمٍ مَشهوراً.
My brother became a famous football player.
اشتَرى النادي لاعِبَينِ جَديدَينِ في هذا المَوسِمِ.
The club bought two new players this season.
يُعتَبَرُ هذا اللاعِبُ مِن أَفضَلِ اللاعِبينَ في تاريخِ اللُعبةِ.
This player is considered one of the best players in the history of the game.
لَولا إصابةُ اللاعِبِ الأساسيِّ، لَما خَسِرَ الفَريقُ المُباراةَ النِّهائيّةَ.
Had the key player not been injured, the team would not have lost the final.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | لاعِبٌ | لاعِبونَ |
| Genitive | لاعِبٍ | لاعِبينَ |
| Accusative | لاعِباً | لاعِبينَ |
| Vocative | يا لاعِبُ | يا لاعِبونَ |
Word family
Etymology
The word is the active participle of the verb لَعِبَ, meaning to play. It is built on the فاعِل pattern, which turns a verb into the doer of the action. So a لاعِب is literally one who plays. In modern usage it settled into the sense of a sports player or competitor.
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