Aug 11, 2006 18:56
18 yrs ago
عربي term
المملكة المتحدة
33 years of experience
Native in: أنجليزي
Works in: عربي إلى أنجليزي, ألماني إلى أنجليزي
الهدب الرئيسي or الهدف الرئيس
عربي
الطب
الطب العام
I am confused - I always thought "main" was a nisba adjective now I have come across the other term 3 times in one week
Responses
| 5 +5 | الرئيس |
Ala Rabie
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| 4 | الرئيس أو الرئيسي |
Ahmad Batiran
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Responses
+5
4 دقائق
Selected
الرئيس
Linguistically speaking, 'الرئيس' is the correct term, however; although 'الرئيسي' is technically incorrect, it is more conventional as well as phonetically accepted.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "This was a great help - still "sounds" wrong without the nisba adjective ending to me - I'm obviously associating with the uneducated!"
4 أيام
Ahmad Batiran
اليمن
اليمن
Native in عربي
&
عربي
اليمن
Where Accuracy Matters
Native in: عربي (Variants: Egyptian, Palestinian, Yemeni, Tunisian, Moroccan, Lebanese, Kuwaiti, Syrian, Algerian, UAE, Sudanese, Jordanian, Saudi , Standard-Arabian (MSA), Libyan, Iraqi) 
Works in: أنجليزي إلى عربي, عربي إلى أنجليزي, عربي, and 1 more.
عربي term (edited):
الهدف الرئيسي or الهدف الرئيس
الرئيس أو الرئيسي
I support الرئيس strongly.
مبلغ ضئيل
It is one of the spread 'mistakes' maybe. However, some lexicologists have something to say of course.
مبلغ ضئيل
It is one of the spread 'mistakes' maybe. However, some lexicologists have something to say of course.
Example sentence:
الأمر الرئيس
الوضع الكئيب
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