Arabic vocabulary
مِقْدَارٍextent in Arabic
مِقْدَارٍ is how you say “extent” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَأَقْوَامَ لَا يُؤَثِّرُ فِيهِمْ إِلَّا بِمِقْدَارٍ سَمَاعِهِ،
And there are people who are affected only to the extent of what they have heard.
بِمِقْدَارٍ — to the extent of. This is a 'with/by the measure of' preposition fused to a noun, naming the gauge of the effect. It governs the next noun into the genitive and heads an 'of' pairing: 'to the extent of...'.
From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →
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