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يَسار
left /jaˈsaːr/
nounA2#1280 most common
Also: left side, left-hand side, the political left
Example sentences
اُنْظُرْ إِلَى الْيَسار.
Look to the left.
الْمَطْعَمُ عَلَى يَسارِكَ.
The restaurant is on your left.
اِنْعَطِفْ يَساراً عِنْدَ الإِشارَةِ الضَّوْئِيَّة.
Turn left at the traffic light.
فازَ حِزْبُ الْيَسارِ فِي الانْتِخاباتِ الأَخيرَة.
The left-wing party won the recent elections.
يَميلُ خِطابُهُ السِّياسِيُّ إِلَى يَسارِ الْوَسَطِ بِوُضوحٍ مُتَزايِد.
His political rhetoric leans toward the center-left with growing clarity.
لَمْ يَكُنْ مَوْقِعُهُ فِي أَقْصَى الْيَسارِ إِلّا رَدَّةَ فِعْلٍ عَلَى سَنَواتٍ مِنَ التَّهْميش.
His position on the far left was only a reaction to years of marginalization.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | يَسارٌ | — |
| Genitive | يَسارٍ | — |
| Accusative | يَساراً | — |
| Vocative | يا يَسارُ | — |
Word family
يُسْرىleft (feminine); the left hand
يَسارِيّleftist, left-wing
يَسارِيّةleftism
يَمينright (the opposite side)
يُسْرease, affluence
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root y-s-r, which carries the sense of ease and good fortune. يَسار for 'left' began as a polite substitute. Speakers avoided harsher names for the left side, which carried unlucky associations, and reached for a word tied to 'ease.' The political sense, الْيَسار for the left wing, is a modern loan-translation from European usage.
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