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نازِيّ

Nazi (a member of the German Nazi Party or an adherent of Nazism) /naːˈziː/

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Also: a Nazi Party member, an adherent of Nazism

Example sentences

هذا الرجل نازي.

This man is a Nazi.

كان جدُّه نازيًا خلال الحرب.

His grandfather was a Nazi during the war.

حاربت جيوش الحلفاء النازيين في الحرب العالمية الثانية.

The Allied armies fought the Nazis in World War II.

احتلت ألمانيا النازية معظم أوروبا قبل هزيمتها عام 1945.

Nazi Germany occupied most of Europe before its defeat in 1945.

يدرس المؤرخون كيف استغل الحزب النازي الدعاية لنشر أيديولوجيته.

Historians study how the Nazi Party used propaganda to spread its ideology.

رغم مرور عقود طويلة، لا تزال جرائم النازيين ضد الإنسانية موضع بحث ومحاكمة قانونية مستمرة.

Despite many decades passing, Nazi crimes against humanity remain the subject of ongoing research and legal prosecution.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	نازيٌّ	نازيّونَ
Genitive	نازيٍّ	نازيّينَ
Accusative	نازيًّا	نازيّينَ
Vocative	يا نازيُّ	يا نازيّونَ

Word family

النازيةNazism (the ideology and movement)

نازيةa female Nazi; Nazi (feminine form)

نازيّونNazis (masculine plural, as people)

الحزب النازيthe Nazi Party

Etymology

The word entered Arabic in the twentieth century as a direct borrowing of the German "Nazi," itself a shortened colloquial form of "Nationalsozialist" (National Socialist). Arabic writers adopted it during and after World War II, when news coverage of Germany's ruling party spread the term across the region. Arabic then shaped the loan to fit its own grammar by treating the final "-i" as a nisba ending, the standard Arabic suffix that turns a name into a person or adjective of that group, much like "Iraq" becomes "Iraqi." No older Semitic or Indo-European root underlies it; the word is a twentieth-century political import, not an inherited term.

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