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مَلَكِيّ
royal /ma.laˈkijː/
adjectiveB2#3435 most common
Also: monarchical, regal, kingly
Example sentences
هذا القصر ملكي.
This palace is royal.
العائلة الملكية تعيش في هذا القصر.
The royal family lives in this palace.
شاهد ملايين الناس حفل الزفاف الملكي على التلفاز.
Millions of people watched the royal wedding on television.
يؤيد بعض المواطنين النظام الملكي في البلاد.
Some citizens support the monarchical system in the country.
أصدر الديوان الملكي بيانا رسميا بشأن التعديل الوزاري.
The royal court issued an official statement about the cabinet reshuffle.
يرى بعض المؤرخين أن الشرعية الملكية استمدت قوتها من التحالف بين رجال الدين والبلاط الملكي.
Some historians believe royal legitimacy drew its strength from the alliance between the clergy and the royal court.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَلَكِيٌّ | مَلَكِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | مَلَكِيٍّ | مَلَكِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | مَلَكِيًّا | مَلَكِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | مَلَكِيُّ | مَلَكِيُّونَ |
Word family
مَلِك (malik)king
مُلْك (mulk)kingdom, dominion, sovereignty
مَمْلَكة (mamlaka)kingdom
مِلْكِيّة (milkiyya)ownership, property (a homograph, not the feminine of 'royal')
Etymology
مَلَكِيّ is a nisba adjective, built by adding the relational suffix -iyy to the base malak-, tied to the root m-l-k, which covers kingship and ownership across Semitic languages. The word literally marks something as belonging to or characteristic of a king. Arabic is a Semitic language, part of the Afroasiatic family, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root.
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