Arabic vocabulary
أَعْجَبُ is how you say “amazing/remarkable” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
فتقلبت في أعجب الحالات إلى حين البروز،
It transformed through amazing states until the time of emergence.
أَعْجَبِ — amazing. A superlative-shaped word meaning 'most amazing', in the genitive because 'in' governs it, and it heads a possessive pairing, 'the most amazing of states'. Arabic forms the superlative by placing this word before the genitive plural that completes it.
From: God's Promise of New Life →فَقَالَتْ أَعْجَبُ مِنْكَ يَا عُمَرُ قَدْ دَخَلْتَ فِي أُمُورِنَا،
So she said, "I am astonished at you, O Umar; you have entered into our affairs."
أَعْجَبُ — I am astonished. A present verb of wondering with the 'I' subject built in, used here as an exclamation 'how I marvel'; the form fronts the speaker's astonishment. It then takes 'at you' to say who is wondered at.
From: Umar and the Prophet's Wives →أَعْجَبُ الْعَجَائِبِ
Most astonishing of wonders:
أَعْجَبُ — most astonishing. A comparative-superlative adjective, 'most astonishing', built on a fixed pattern that carries the 'most' inside the word with no separate word for it. It heads a possessive pairing with the noun that follows, so the two read 'the most astonishing of...'.
From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →OpenArabic teaches words like أَعْجَبُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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