عَظِيمٌ great in Arabic
عَظِيمٌ is how you say “great” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
ومن فقهِ المقاصدِ أن يُوزَنَ الفعلُ بثمرتِه هل يدرأ ضررًا أعظم أم يجلبُ نفعًا راجحًا؟
From the understanding of the objectives, an action is weighed by its outcome: does it prevent a greater harm or bring a significant benefit?
أَعْظَمَ greater
An elative, 'greater,' an adjective on 'harm,' in the -a form to match it. It is a 'diptote' — it refuses the light '-n,' so it shows a bare -a. The act's worth turns on whether the harm it blocks is the greater one.
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أصول الدين هو اسم عظيم،
'The Fundamentals of Religion' is a great name,
عَظِيمٌ great
This adjective trails 'name' and copies its nominative, indefinite traits, marking that it describes the name and nothing else. Arabic binds adjective to noun by this echo of case and definiteness rather than by position alone.
والنبي وليس معه أحد إذ رفع لي سواد عظيم فظننت أنهم أمتي،
and a prophet with nobody with him until a vast multitude was raised for me, and I thought it was my nation,
عَظِيمٌ vast
This adjective trails 'multitude' and agrees with it — nominative, indefinite — 'vast / immense'. Agreement in case binds it to its noun. It underscores the throng's enormous size.
ولكن انظر إلى الأفق، فنظرت فإذا سواد عظيم،
But look to the horizon, and I looked there and saw a vast multitude.
عَظِيمٌ vast
This adjective trails 'multitude' and agrees with it — nominative, indefinite — 'vast / immense'. Agreement in case binds it to its noun. It closes the vision on an overwhelming, horizon-filling throng.
فقيل لى، انظر إلى الأفق الآخر، فإذا سواد عظيم،
Then it was said to me: Look to the other horizon, and there I saw a vast multitude.
عَظِيمٌ vast
This adjective trails 'multitude' and agrees with it — nominative, indefinite — 'vast'. Agreement in case ties it to its noun, stressing the throng's scale.
وَقَالَ تَعَالَى إِنَّ الشِّرْكَ لَظُلْمٌ عَظِيمٌ
And He said: 'Indeed, shirk is a great injustice.'
عَظِيمٌ great
An adjective, 'great', describing the wrong before it and matching it in being indefinite. As an adjective it follows its noun and agrees with it, scaling up the injustice.
وَإِذا لآتيناهم من لدنا أجرا عَظِيما ولهديناهم صراطا مُسْتَقِيمًا
And if We were to give them from Us a great reward, and (so) guide them to a straight path.
عَظِيمًا great
Adjective, 'great', describing 'reward'. It follows its noun as Arabic adjectives do and copies its object form and indefinite ending, so 'a great reward'.
وَهُوَ بَعْدَ هَذَا وَاللَّهِ لَهُ نَبَأٌ عَظِيمٌ وَخَطَرٌ جَلِيلٌ
And after this, by God, for him is a great report and a weighty, grave matter.
عَظِيمٌ great
A describing word following the noun it modifies, marking that matter as great. As an Arabic adjective it sits after its noun and copies the noun's indefinite, subject-form ending, so it agrees with and trails 'a tiding'.