Arabic vocabulary

كَثِيرَةgreat in Arabic

كَثِيرَة is how you say “great” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.

Example sentences

ورب منفعة قليلة تجر إلى مضرة كثيرة
and a small benefit might lead to great harm.
كَثِيرَةٍ — great. An adjective meaning 'much' or 'great', describing the harm. It follows its noun and matches its indefiniteness and possessive-case ending, the regular pattern for Arabic adjectives.
From: Think Before You Act →
وَالْآيَاتُ فِي ذَلِكَ كَثِيرَةٌ
And the verses concerning this are numerous.
كَثِيرَةٌ — are numerous. An adjective serving as predicate, 'many/numerous', completing 'the verses about that are many'. As predicate it matches its subject in being feminine, and Arabic supplies no 'are'.
From: The Sin of Idolatry →
وَكَانَ يُرْسِلُ أَشْعَارًا كَثِيرَةً إِلَى بَغْدَادِ
He would send many poems to Baghdad.
كَثِيرَةً — many. An adjective describing the poems. Notice it takes a feminine-singular shape even though the noun is plural: Arabic treats most non-human plurals as if they were a single feminine thing for agreement, so a 'group' of poems is described with a singular feminine word. Its -an ending matches the indefinite object it modifies.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →

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