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نِزاع

conflict /niˈzaːʕ/

nounB2#4345 most common

Also: dispute, quarrel, strife

Example sentences

يوجد نزاع بين الأخوين.
There is a conflict between the two brothers.
نزاع الجيران حول الحديقة مستمر.
The neighbors' dispute over the garden is ongoing.
حاولت الأمم المتحدة حل النزاع بين البلدين.
The United Nations tried to resolve the conflict between the two countries.
تصاعد النزاع الحدودي إلى مواجهة عسكرية.
The border conflict escalated into a military confrontation.
أدى النزاع على الميراث إلى قطيعة بين أفراد العائلة.
The inheritance dispute led to a rift among the family members.
ظل النزاع القضائي المعقد بين الشركتين عالقًا في المحاكم لسنوات بسبب تعارض التشريعات.
The complex legal dispute between the two companies stayed stuck in the courts for years because of conflicting legislation.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeنِزاعٌنِزاعاتٌ
Genitiveنِزاعٍنِزاعاتٍ
Accusativeنِزاعًانِزاعاتٍ
Vocativeيا نِزاعُيا نِزاعاتُ

Word family

نَزَعَto pull out, remove, take off
نازَعَto dispute, contend with
تَنازَعَto quarrel with one another
مُنازِعdisputant, contender
نَزْعextraction, withdrawal

Etymology

نِزاع comes from the Arabic root ن-ز-ع, whose core sense is to pull out or wrench away. The verb نازَعَ, built on this root, added the sense of contending or pulling against someone, and its verbal noun نِزاع names the resulting conflict or dispute. The same root gives نَزْع, meaning extraction or withdrawal, and is also used for the struggle of death, as in نزع الموت. Arabic is a Semitic language, so it has no Indo-European root.

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