أَعْجَبُamazing/remarkable

Example sentences

• 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 →