سلبي

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of سَلْب‎ (salb, “negation”) +‎ ـِيّ‎ (-iyy), from the root س ل ب‎ (s-l-b)

• IPA^(key): /sal.bijj/

سَلْبِيّ • (salbiyy) (feminine سَلْبِيَّة‎ (salbiyya), masculine plural سَلْبِيُّونَ‎ (salbiyyūna), feminine plural سَلْبِيَّات‎ (salbiyyāt))

1. negative (not positive or neutral)
2. (physics, chemistry) negative, electronegative (of electrical charge)

   Synonym: سَالِب‎ (sālib)

   Antonym: مُوجَب‎ (mūjab)

   ‏شُحْنَة سَلْبِيَّة‎ ― šuḥna(t) salbiyya ― negative charge

3. negative, damaging, unfavourable

   Antonym: إِيجَابِيّ‎ (ʔījābiyy)

   ‏هٰذَا ٱلْاِقْتِرَاحُ لَهُ نِقَاطٌ سَلْبِيَّةٌ وَإِيجَابِيَّةٌ‎ ― hāḏā l-iqtirāḥu lahu niqāṭun salbiyyatun waʔījābiyyatun ― This proposal has negative and positive aspects.

4. (often used pejoratively) negative, pessimistic

   Antonym: إِيجَابِيّ‎ (ʔījābiyy)

   ‏إِنْسَان سَلْبِيَّ‎ ― ʔinsān salbiyya ― a negative person

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• → Uyghur: سەلبىي‎ (selbiy)
• → Uzbek: salbiy

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “سلبي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen