See also: خارجی and جارچی

Arabic edit

Root
خ ر ج (ḵ-r-j)

Etymology edit

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of خَارِج (ḵārij, outer, exterior) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

خَارِجِيّ (ḵārijiyy) (feminine خَارِجِيَّة (ḵārijiyya), masculine plural خَارِجِيُّونَ (ḵārijiyyūna), feminine plural خَارِجِيَّات (ḵārijiyyāt))

  1. outer, external, extraneous, foreign, nonresident

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Azerbaijani: xarici
  • Ottoman Turkish: خارجی (haricî)
  • Persian: خارجی (xâreji)
  • Urdu: خارجی (xārijī)
  • Uzbek: xorijiy

Noun edit

خَارِجِيّ (ḵārijiyym, plural خَوَارِج (ḵawārij), feminine خَارِجِيَّة (ḵārijiyya)

  1. (Islam, historical) Kharijite
  2. (Islam, religious slur) resembling or compared to historical Khawarij, i.e. prone to treating people as non-Muslims, a takfirist
    Synonym: تَكْفِيرِيّ (takfīriyy)
    Antonym: مُرْجِئِيّ (murjiʔiyy)

Declension edit

References edit

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “خرج”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN