Arabic vocabulary
How to say “excellent” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
ولله دَرُّ القائل
By Allah, how excellent is the one who said:
دَرُّ — excellent. 'the abundance, excellence of', nominative subject of that idiom, head of an 'of' pairing with 'the sayer'. The whole 'lillahi darru X' means 'how fine is X!'.
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