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شَعِيرَةً a barley grain in Arabic

شَعِيرَةً is how you say “a barley grain” in Arabic.

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وَكَانَ فِي قَلْبِهِ مِّنَ ٱلْخَيْرِ مَا يَزِنُ شَعِيرَةً،

And in his heart there was some good that weighed as much as a barley grain.

شَعِيرَةً a barley grain

This noun names the unit of weight and its -an ending marks it as the object of the weighing, the amount the good equals. Idiomatically it stands for a tiny quantity, and the accusative ending fastens it on as the measure weighed.

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