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هُتاف
cheer, chant (shouted by a crowd) /huˈtaːf/
nounB2#4303 most common
Also: shout, outcry, slogan-chanting
Example sentences
سمعتُ هُتافًا عاليًا.
I heard a loud cheer.
رفع الجمهور هُتافًا للفريق.
The crowd raised a cheer for the team.
امتلأ الملعب بهتافات المشجعين.
The stadium filled with the fans' chants.
ردّد المتظاهرون هتافات ضد الحكومة.
The protesters chanted slogans against the government.
علا هُتافُ الجماهير عندما سجّل اللاعب الهدف الحاسم.
The crowd's cheering rose when the player scored the decisive goal.
تحوّلت الهتافات العفوية إلى نشيد جماعي موحّد عبّر عن غضب الشارع.
The spontaneous chants turned into a unified collective anthem that expressed the street's anger.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | هُتافٌ | هُتافاتٌ |
| Genitive | هُتافٍ | هُتافاتٍ |
| Accusative | هُتافًا | هُتافاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا هُتافُ | يا هُتافاتُ |
Word family
هتفto shout, chant, cheer
هاتفtelephone
هتّافcheerleader, loud chanter
هتافاتchants, slogans (plural)
Etymology
هُتاف comes from the triliteral Arabic root ه-ت-ف (h-t-f), which carries the sense of calling out or crying aloud. The noun pattern فُعال (fu'āl) is common for words describing a sound or repeated vocal act, so هُتاف denotes the act of shouting or chanting, typically in unison. The same root gives هاتف (telephone, literally 'the one who calls'), which shows the root's core sense of a voice calling from afar.
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