أَوَّلُ first in Arabic
أَوَّلُ is how you say “first” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
أَوَّلُ وِصَالِ الْعَبْدِ لِلْحَقِّ هُجْرَانُهُ لِنَفْسِهِ
The first connection of the servant to the Truth is his abandonment of his self.
أَوَّلُ The first
'awwal' = 'first'; first half of an 'of' phrase: 'the first of...'.
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More example sentences
وَأَوَّلُ هُجْرَانِ الْعَبْدِ لِلْحَقِّ مُوَاصَلَتُهُ لِنَفْسِهِ
And the first abandonment of the Truth by the servant is his connection to his self.
وَأَوَّلُ And the first
'wa-' = 'and'; 'awwal' = 'first'; first half of an 'of' phrase.
فَأَوَّلُ عُقُوبَاتِهِمْ إِعْرَاضُهُمْ عَنْ الْحَقِّ شُغْلًا بِالْخَلْقِ،
The first of their punishments is that they turn away from the truth, becoming preoccupied with people.
فَأَوَّلُ so the first
The fa- prefix opens a consequence ('so'), beginning to spell out results, and the word it rides on is 'first', which heads a possessive chain. As the head of that chain it stays in the doer-style nominative as the sentence's topic, while the following noun will complete the 'first of...' phrase.
فَأَوَّلُ مَنْ عَلِمَ بِذَلِكَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بُنَّ عَامِرٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ
So the first who knew of that was Abd Allah ibn Amir al-Azdi.
فَأَوَّلُ So the first
A 'fa-' fused to a noun, 'so the first'. The 'fa-' chains this to the narrative, 'and so', while the noun heads the sentence as its topic. It also leans onto the clause after it, 'the first who knew', so it opens a 'the first one to...' frame whose identity is named later.