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مَسْؤُولِيَّة
responsibility /masʔuːˈlijja/
nounB1#1459 most common
Also: accountability, liability, duty
Example sentences
هٰذِهِ مَسْؤُولِيَّتِي.
This is my responsibility.
أَتَحَمَّلُ مَسْؤُولِيَّةً كَبِيرَةً في البَيْتِ.
I carry a big responsibility at home.
يَجِبُ عَلى كُلِّ مُوَظَّفٍ أَنْ يَعْرِفَ مَسْؤُولِيَّاتِهِ.
Every employee must know his responsibilities.
رَفَضَ المُديرُ تَحَمُّلَ المَسْؤُولِيَّةِ عَنِ الخَطَأِ وأَلْقاها عَلى فَريقِهِ.
The manager refused to take responsibility for the mistake and put it on his team.
تَقَعُ عَلى عاتِقِ الحُكومَةِ مَسْؤُولِيَّةٌ أَخْلاقِيَّةٌ تِجاهَ المُواطِنينَ الأَكْثَرِ فَقْراً.
The government bears a moral responsibility toward its poorest citizens.
إِنَّ تَوَزُّعَ المَسْؤُولِيَّةِ بَيْنَ المُؤَسَّساتِ يَجْعَلُ مِنَ الصَّعْبِ مُحاسَبَةَ أَيِّ جِهَةٍ بِمُفْرَدِها عِنْدَ وُقوعِ الكارِثَةِ.
The spread of responsibility across institutions makes it hard to hold any single party to account when disaster strikes.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَسْؤُولِيَّةٌ | مَسْؤُولِيَّاتٌ |
| Genitive | مَسْؤُولِيَّةٍ | مَسْؤُولِيَّاتٍ |
| Accusative | مَسْؤُولِيَّةً | مَسْؤُولِيَّاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا مَسْؤُولِيَّةُ | يا مَسْؤُولِيَّاتُ |
Word family
مَسْؤُول (masʾūl)responsible person; official in charge
سَأَلَ (saʾala)to ask
سُؤَال (suʾāl)question
مَسْأَلَة (masʾala)matter, issue, problem
مُسَاءَلَة (musāʾala)questioning, calling to account
Etymology
The word comes from the triliteral root س-ء-ل (s-ʾ-l), 'to ask, to question.' Its base is مَسْؤُول (masʾūl), the passive participle 'one who is asked,' meaning the person who must answer for something. The abstract suffix ـِيَّة then turns that into مَسْؤُولِيَّة, the state of being answerable. The link is plain: the responsible person is the one you question when something goes wrong.
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