انفعالي

Arabic

Etymology

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of اِنْفِعَال (infiʿāl, excitement, passivity) + ـِيّ (-iyy).

Adjective

اِنْفِعَالِيّ (infiʿāliyy) m, feminine اِنْفِعَالِيَّة (infiʿāliyya), masculine plural اِنْفِعَالِيُّون (infiʿāliyyūn), feminine plural اِنْفِعَالِيَّات (infiʿāliyyāt)

  1. excitable
  2. (biology) susceptible
  3. (grammar) passive

Declension

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), انفعالي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), فعل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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