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مادِّيّ
material /maːdˈdij.jiː/
adjectiveB1#2494 most common
Also: materialistic, physical, tangible
Example sentences
أحمد رجل مادي.
Ahmad is a materialistic man.
أخي مادي جدًا ولا يفكر إلا بالمال.
My brother is very materialistic and thinks only about money.
الدعم المادي من الحكومة ساعد المزارعين.
Material (financial) support from the government helped the farmers.
لحقت بالمنزل أضرار مادية كبيرة بعد العاصفة.
The house suffered large material damage after the storm.
يرى بعض الفلاسفة أن النزعة المادية تُفقر الحياة الروحية للإنسان.
Some philosophers believe that materialistic tendency impoverishes a person's spiritual life.
يعزو بعض المفكرين الأزمة الأخلاقية المعاصرة إلى هيمنة القيم المادية على حساب القيم الإنسانية.
Some thinkers attribute the contemporary moral crisis to the dominance of material values at the expense of humane ones.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مادِّيٌّ | ماديّون |
| Genitive | مادِّيٍّ | ماديّين |
| Accusative | مادِّيًّا | ماديّين |
| Vocative | يا مادِّيُّ | يا ماديّون |
Word family
مادةmatter, substance, material
ماديّةmaterialism
مادياًmaterially, in material terms
مدّto extend, stretch
امتدادextension, expanse
Etymology
The adjective مادّيّ is built from the noun مادّة, meaning matter or substance. Medieval Arab philosophers used مادّة to translate the Greek concept of hyle, the underlying stuff of physical things, and likely linked it to the root م-د-د, to extend or stretch, since matter was conceived as that which extends in space. Adding the relative suffix ـيّ to مادّة turns the noun matter into the adjective material or materialistic.
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