جُمْلَةِgroup

Example sentences

• وَمِنْ جُمْلَةِ مَا قَرَأَ أَجْزَاءً كَثِيرَةً مِنْ كِتَابِ الْفُنُونِ لِابْنِ عَقِيلِ،

  Among the things he read were many sections of Ibn Aqil's Book of Arts.

  جُمْلَةِ — group. A noun governed by the preceding 'among' and so in the genitive. It heads an 'of' link to the relative clause that follows, building 'the group of what he read'. It frames the books as a subset of his wider reading.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →

• وَفِي الْجُمْلَةِ تَرْكٌ كَتَبَةٌ الْفُنُونِ آثارًا بَارِزَةً فِي عِلْمٍ وَمُصَنَّفَاتِ ابْنِ الْجَوْزِيِّ،

  Overall, the Book of Arts left notable traces on the scholarship and writings of Ibn al-Jawzi,

  الْجُمْلَةِ — the whole. A definite noun governed by the preceding 'in', forming with it the fixed idiom 'on the whole / overall'. Its al- and genitive are locked in by the set expression rather than chosen freshly. It frames the coming statement as a general summing-up.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →