غيار

Arabic

Root
غ ي ر (ḡ-y-r)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣi.jaːr/

Noun

غِيَار • (ḡiyār) m (plural غِيَارَات (ḡiyārāt))

  1. replacement, swapping out, verbal noun of غَايَرَ (ḡāyara) (form III)
  2. spare part, change, dressing, anything held in reserve to replace a part of something
    • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 91:
      تنشّفنا وارتدينا ملابسنا بغيارات داخليّة جديدة.
      We dried ourselves and put on our clothes with new underwear.
  3. gear in a motorvehicle specifically due to phono-semantic matching of English gear after in the preceding meaning it can also be a car part

Declension

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.