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مُسَلْسَل

TV series /muˈsal.sal/

nounB1#1677 most common

Also: serial, series (broadcast), soap opera

Example sentences

هٰذَا مُسَلْسَل جَمِيل.
This is a nice series.
أُشاهِدُ المُسَلْسَل كُلَّ مَساء.
I watch the series every evening.
بَدَأَ المُسَلْسَل الجَدِيد فِي رَمَضان.
The new series started in Ramadan.
تَدُورُ أَحْداثُ المُسَلْسَل حَوْلَ عائِلَة مِصْرِيّة.
The events of the series revolve around an Egyptian family.
حَقَّقَ المُسَلْسَل نَجاحاً كَبِيراً رَغْمَ الانتِقاداتِ الكَثِيرَة.
The series achieved great success despite the many criticisms.
يَرَى النُّقّادُ أَنَّ المُسَلْسَلَ يَعْكِسُ التَّحَوُّلاتِ الاجتِماعِيَّةَ الَّتِي تَشْهَدُها البِلاد.
Critics see the series as reflecting the social transformations the country is undergoing.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeمُسَلْسَلٌمُسَلْسَلاتٌ
Genitiveمُسَلْسَلٍمُسَلْسَلاتٍ
Accusativeمُسَلْسَلاًمُسَلْسَلاتٍ
Vocativeيا مُسَلْسَلُيا مُسَلْسَلاتُ

Word family

سِلْسِلةchain, series
تَسَلْسُلsequence, succession
مُتَسَلْسِلconsecutive, serial
سَلْسَلَto chain, to put in sequence

Etymology

The word comes from the quadriliteral root س-ل-س-ل, which carries the idea of a chain. The noun سِلْسِلة means a physical chain or a linked sequence. A مُسَلْسَل is something made into a chain, so a broadcast story told in linked episodes. The television sense grew popular in the twentieth century with serialized radio and TV drama.

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