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مُنْفَصِل
separate, detached, disconnected /mʊn.faˈsˤɪl/
adjectiveB2#3012 most common
Also: disjoint, independent (of a pronoun), cut off
Example sentences
البَيْتَانِ مُنْفَصِلَانِ.
The two houses are separate.
غُرْفَةُ النَّوْمِ مُنْفَصِلَةٌ عَنِ المَطْبَخِ.
The bedroom is separate from the kitchen.
هٰذَا السِّلْكُ مُنْفَصِلٌ عَنِ الكَهْرَبَاءِ.
This wire is disconnected from the electricity.
يَعِيشُ الأَخَوَانِ فِي شَقَّتَيْنِ مُنْفَصِلَتَيْنِ فِي نَفْسِ العِمَارَةِ.
The two brothers live in two separate apartments in the same building.
فِي النَّحْوِ العَرَبِيِّ، تُسَمَّى كَلِمَةُ "هُوَ" ضَمِيرًا مُنْفَصِلًا.
In Arabic grammar, the word 'huwa' is called an independent (separate) pronoun.
يَدْعُو بَعْضُ المُفَكِّرِينَ إِلَى نِظَامٍ قَضَائِيٍّ مُنْفَصِلٍ تَمَامًا عَنِ السُّلْطَةِ التَّنْفِيذِيَّةِ.
Some thinkers call for a judicial system completely separate from the executive authority.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مُنْفَصِلٌ | مُنْفَصِلُونَ |
| Genitive | مُنْفَصِلٍ | مُنْفَصِلِينَ |
| Accusative | مُنْفَصِلًا | مُنْفَصِلِينَ |
| Vocative | يَا مُنْفَصِلُ | يَا مُنْفَصِلُونَ |
Word family
فَصْلseparation, chapter, season
اِنْفِصَالseparation, secession
اِنْفَصَلَto become separated, split off
فَاصِلseparating; a break or interval
مُتَّصِلconnected (antonym)
Etymology
The root f-ṣ-l carries the core sense of cutting, dividing, or deciding between things. Form VII verbs in Arabic, built on the pattern infa'ala, mark a reflexive or passive nuance, so infaṣala means 'to become separated' rather than 'to separate something'. Munfaṣil is the active participle of that verb, describing something that now stands in a state of separation. The same root surfaces in other Semitic languages with a related sense of splitting or dividing.
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