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مُزْعِج
annoying /ˈmuz.ʕid͡ʒ/
adjectiveB1#1493 most common
Also: bothersome, disturbing, troublesome
Example sentences
الصَّوْتُ مُزْعِجٌ.
The sound is annoying.
هٰذَا الطِّفْلُ مُزْعِجٌ جِدًّا.
This child is very annoying.
الضَّوْضَاءُ فِي الشَّارِعِ مُزْعِجَةٌ طَوَالَ اللَّيْلِ.
The noise in the street is annoying all night long.
كَانَ سُؤَالُهُ مُزْعِجًا لِدَرَجَةِ أَنَّ الْجَمِيعَ صَمَتَ.
His question was so annoying that everyone fell silent.
تَجَاهَلْتُ صَوْتَ الْمُنَبِّهِ الْمُزْعِجَ وَعُدْتُ إِلَى النَّوْمِ.
I ignored the annoying alarm and went back to sleep.
مَا يُثِيرُ قَلَقِي لَيْسَ الْخَبَرَ نَفْسَهُ بَلْ أُسْلُوبُهُ الْمُزْعِجُ فِي طَرْحِهِ.
What troubles me is not the news itself but his annoying manner of delivering it.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مُزْعِجٌ | مُزْعِجُونَ |
| Genitive | مُزْعِجٍ | مُزْعِجِينَ |
| Accusative | مُزْعِجًا | مُزْعِجِينَ |
| Vocative | مُزْعِجُ | مُزْعِجُونَ |
Word family
أَزْعَجَto annoy, disturb
إِزْعَاجannoyance, disturbance, bother
مُنْزَعِجannoyed, botheredمُزْعِجَةannoying (feminine)
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic root ز-ع-ج (z-ʿ-j), which means to disturb or unsettle. مُزْعِج is the active participle of the Form IV verb أَزْعَجَ, meaning to disturb or annoy. The form names the thing that does the disturbing. The root is Semitic and has no Indo-European source.
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