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مُناسَبَة
occasion /muˈnaː.sa.ba/
nounA1#610 most common
Also: event (social or festive), suitability, appropriateness, relation, connection
Example sentences
هٰذِهِ مُناسَبَةٌ جَميلةٌ.
This is a lovely occasion.
نَحتَفِلُ بِهٰذِهِ المُناسَبَةِ.
We are celebrating this occasion.
بِمُناسَبَةِ نَجاحِكَ دَعَوْنا الأَصدِقاءَ.
On the occasion of your success, we invited our friends.
لا أَرتَدي البَدلةَ إلّا في المُناسَباتِ الرَّسمِيّةِ.
I only wear a suit on formal occasions.
تُعَدُّ هٰذِهِ المُناسَبَةُ فُرصةً مُلائِمةً لِتَكريمِ العامِلينَ.
This occasion is regarded as a fitting opportunity to honor the workers.
لم تَكُنِ المُناسَبَةُ سِوى ذَريعةٍ لِجَمعِ المُتَخاصِمينَ تَحتَ سَقفٍ واحِدٍ.
The occasion was merely a pretext to bring the feuding parties together under one roof.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مُناسَبَةٌ | مُناسَباتٌ |
| Genitive | مُناسَبَةٍ | مُناسَباتٍ |
| Accusative | مُناسَبَةً | مُناسَباتٍ |
| Vocative | يا مُناسَبةُ | يا مُناسَباتُ |
Word family
مُناسِبsuitable, appropriate
ناسَبَto suit, to be appropriate to
نِسبةratio, proportion, relation
نَسَبlineage, kinship
مُناسَباتoccasions (plural)
Etymology
Munāsaba is the verbal noun of the Form III verb nāsaba, meaning to suit or to correspond to. It is built on the root n-s-b, which carries the sense of relation, attribution, and kinship. The base idea is correspondence or fittingness. From a fitting the word came to mean a fitting time, and so an occasion or event.
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