Arabic vocabulary
جَاهِلِيَّةAge of Ignorance
How to say “Age of Ignorance” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَكَانَ أَمْرَأً تَنَصَّرَ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ،
And he was a man who converted to Christianity during the Age of Ignorance,
الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ — the Age of Ignorance. This noun carries the 'the' marker as a specific, named era, and the preposition before it keeps it in the genitive. It supplies the period, the pre-Islamic age, in which he had converted.
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