English → Arabic
novel in Arabic
- Pronunciation
- riwāyah
- Arabizi
riwayah- Type
- noun · feminine
- Plural
- رِوَايَات riwāyāt
- Root
- ر و ي
How to use it
'Riwāyah' (رواية) is the standard Arabic word for a novel. It comes from the root meaning 'to narrate' or 'to tell', which fits the nature of a novel. It's a feminine noun.
Example sentences
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قرأت رواية ممتعة أمس.
qaraʾtu riwāyatan mumtiʿatan ʾams.
I read an enjoyable novel yesterday.
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هذه رواية مشهورة عالميًا.
hāḏihi riwāyatun mašhūratun ʿālamiyyan.
This is a world-famous novel.
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يكتب الكاتب روايات تاريخية.
yaktubu al-kātibu riwāyātin tārīḫiyyah.
The writer writes historical novels.
Examples from real texts
Sentences taken from published bilingual texts (subtitles, documents). They show the word in context and are not reviewed one by one.
Novel.
رواية.
It's a novel.
* رواية.
He won fame by the novel.
لقد كسب شهرة بسبب الرواية.
What's your favorite novel?
ما هي روايتك المفضلة؟
I was reading a novel then.
كنت أقرأ رواية حينها.
This is not a novel phenomenon.
وهذه ليست بالظاهرة الجديدة.
This novel consists of three parts.
هذه الرواية تتكون من ثلاثة أجزاء.
Have you finished reading that novel?
هل أنهيت قراءة تلك الرواية؟
Shashi Tharoor - "The Great Indian Novel"
شاشي ثارور - "الرواية الهندية العظيمة"
It’s neither particularly complicated nor novel.
إن الأمر ليس معقداً وليس جديداً.
It is both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel.
وهي تعتبر رواية مغامرة تاريخية ورواية رومانسية.
And he was impressed at how they would improvise novel solutions to novel problems -- problems that they hadn't anticipated.
وكان متأثرأً جداً بكيفية تطبيقهم الحلول المرتجلة على تلك المشاكل التي تجابههم تلك المشاكل الغير متوقعة
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