سَيِّمَاespecially

Example sentences

• وَلَا سَيِّمَا مِمَّنْ لَا يَكَادُ يَعْرِفُ كَلَامَ الْعَرَبِ جَيِّدًا،

  And especially those who hardly know Arabic well,

  سَيِّمَا — especially. The second piece of the fixed phrase 'especially / above all'. With the preceding 'wa-la' it singles out a particular subgroup for emphasis; the whole expression narrows the previous statement to the people described next.

  From: Adam, Eve, and the Forbidden Tree →