شِبْرٍ by an inch in Arabic
شِبْرٍ is how you say “by an inch” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَكَانَ إِلَى الْقَرِيَةِ الصَّالِحَةِ أَقْرَبَ بِشِبْرٍ فَجُعِلَ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا
So he was an inch closer to the righteous village and was made one of its people.
بِشِبْرٍ by an inch
This is the preposition 'by' fused to an indefinite noun, expressing the measure of difference: closer by the span of one unit. The preposition governs the noun in the genitive, and the doubled 'n' sound marks it as indefinite, so the phrase quantifies how much nearer he was.
The English is machine-translated.

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