Arabic vocabulary
الشَّهِيرُfamous in Arabic
الشَّهِيرُ is how you say “famous” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَها هُوَ الرَحَّالَةُ الأَنْدَلُسِيُّ الشَّهِيرُ مُحَمَّدٌ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنُ جُبَيْرٍ
And here is the famous Andalusian traveler Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Jubayr.
الشَّهِيرُ — the famous. An adjective 'famous' modifying the traveler, the third in a stacked string of descriptions. It matches its noun in definiteness, gender, and the subject-style case. Arabic piles adjectives after the noun, each agreeing, rather than before it as in English.
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