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أَكْبَرُ greatest in Arabic

أَكْبَرُ is how you say “greatest” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَأَكْبَرُ الْكَبَائِرِ الشِّرْكُ بِاللَّهِ تَعَالَى، وَهُوَ نَوْعَانِ

The greatest of the major sins is associating partners with Allah the Exalted, and it is of two types.

فَأَكْبَرُ so the greatest

A comparative adjective, 'the greatest', the head of an 'X of Y' chain, 'the greatest of the major sins'. The leading 'so' links it to the foregoing, and as a superlative-by-context it owns the noun that follows.

From The Sin of Idolatry

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وَهَذَا هُوَ الشِّرْكُ الْأَكْبَرُ الَّذِي ذَكَرَهُ اللهُ

And this is the major shirk that Allah mentioned.

الْأَكْبَرُ the major

An adjective, 'the major', describing the shirk before it and matching it in definiteness. It follows its noun and agrees, marking which kind is meant.

From The Sin of Idolatry

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