Arabic vocabulary
شَرَّفَهُمْ is how you say “honored them” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ شَرَّفَهُمْ وَأَعْلَى مَنْزِلَتَهُمْ بِدُخُولِهِمْ الإِسْلَامِ،
And that God honored them and elevated their station by their entering Islam,
شرّفهم — honored them. A past-tense verb 'honored' with its 'He' built in and -hum ('them') attached as its object, so one word holds verb, subject, and object. The doer is God, named just before; the -hum points to the Companions. It states the first of God's two favors upon them.
From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →OpenArabic teaches words like شَرَّفَهُمْ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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