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مَحَلِّيّ
local /maħalˈlijj/
adjectiveA2#1210 most common
Also: domestic, regional, native
Example sentences
المُنتَج مَحَلِّيّ.
The product is local.
أُحِبُّ الطَّعامَ المَحَلِّيَّ.
I like the local food.
تَبُثُّ الإذاعةُ المَحَلِّيّةُ الأخبارَ كُلَّ صَباح.
The local radio broadcasts the news every morning.
دَعَمَتِ الحُكومةُ الصِّناعاتِ المَحَلِّيّةَ لِتَقليلِ الاستيراد.
The government supported local industries to reduce imports.
يُفَضِّلُ كَثيرٌ مِنَ المُستَهلِكينَ المُنتَجاتِ المَحَلِّيّةَ عَلى المُستَورَدةِ لِأسبابٍ اقتِصاديّةٍ وبيئيّة.
Many consumers prefer local products to imported ones for economic and environmental reasons.
لَم تَتَمَكَّنِ السُّلُطاتُ المَحَلِّيّةُ مِنَ احتِواءِ الأزمةِ إلّا بَعدَ تَدَخُّلِ الحُكومةِ المَركَزيّة.
The local authorities could not contain the crisis until the central government intervened.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَحَلِّيٌّ | مَحَلِّيُّونَ |
| Genitive | مَحَلِّيٍّ | مَحَلِّيِّينَ |
| Accusative | مَحَلِّيًّا | مَحَلِّيِّينَ |
| Vocative | مَحَلِّيُّ | مَحَلِّيُّونَ |
Word family
مَحَلّplace, locale, shop
مَحَلَّةdistrict, neighborhood quarter
حَلَّto alight, settle; to solve
مَحَلِّيًّاlocally
مَحَلِّيَّةlocality, local character
Etymology
This is a nisba, a relational adjective built from the noun مَحَلّ (maḥall), meaning place or locale. That noun is itself a noun of place from the triliteral root ح ل ل, whose verb حَلَّ means to alight, settle, or take up residence. The added ـِيّ suffix turns the noun of place into the adjective of belonging, so the word means belonging to the place, that is, local.
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