أجنبي

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of أَجْنَب (ʔajnab, “foreign”) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy), from the root ج ن ب (j-n-b).

• IPA^(key): /ʔad͡ʒ.na.bijj/

أَجْنَبِيّ • (ʔajnabiyy) (feminine أَجْنَبِيَّة (ʔajnabiyya), common plural أَجَانِب (ʔajānib), masculine plural أَجْنَبِيُّونَ (ʔajnabiyyūna), feminine plural أَجْنَبِيَّات (ʔajnabiyyāt))

1. foreign, strange, from outside the land

• → Azerbaijani: əcnəbi
• → Bengali: আজনবী (ajnôbī)
• → Hindi: अजनबी (ajnabī)
• → Ottoman Turkish: اجنبی (ecnebi), اجنبیه (ecnebiye)
  • Turkish: ecnebi
• → Persian: اجنبی (ajnabi)
• → Swahili: ajinabi
• → Somali: ajnaabi
• → Urdu: اجنبی (ajnabī)

أَجْنَبِيّ • (ʔajnabiyy) m (plural أَجَانِب (ʔajānib) or أَجْنَبِيُّونَ (ʔajnabiyyūna), feminine أَجْنَبِيَّة (ʔajnabiyya))

1. foreigner

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “أجنبي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “أجنبي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Learned borrowing from Arabic أَجْنَبِيّ (ʔajnabiyy).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaʒ.na.bi/, [ˈʔaʒ.na.bi], [ˈʔad͡ʒ.na.bi]

• Audio (Jerusalem):

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أجنبي • (ʔajnabi) (feminine أجنبيّة (ʔajnabiyye), common plural أجانب (ʔajāneb))

1. foreign

   لغة أجنبيّة ― luḡa ʔajnabiyye ― foreign language

   Audio (Ramallah):

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• غريب (ḡarīb, “foreign, alien, strange”)

أجنبي • (ʔajnabi) m (plural أجانب (ʔajāneb), feminine أجنبيّة (ʔajnabiyye))

1. foreigner