عَاجِل immediate in Arabic
عَاجِل is how you say “immediate” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَيَحُثُّ عَلَى نَيْلِ الشَّهَوَاتِ عَاجِلا
It urges the immediate attainment of desires.
عَاجِلًا immediately
The '-an' ending turns this into an adverb of manner — 'in a rushed way'. Arabic regularly makes adverbs by setting a noun or adjective in this accusative form instead of using a dedicated adverb word.
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وَإِنْ كَانَتْ سَبَبًا لِلأَلَمِ وَالأَذَى فِي الْعَاجِلِ وَمَنْعِ لَذَّاتٍ فِي الآجِلِ
Even if it causes pain and harm immediately and deprives pleasure in the future.
الْعَاجِلِ immediately
An adjective ('the hurried [time]') pressed into service as a noun for 'the near term' — Arabic turns an adjective into a stand-in noun simply by giving it 'the'. Genitive after 'in'.
فِي عَاجِلِ الدُّنْيَا كَالْجَلْدَ وَالرِّجَامَ وَالْحَلْقَ
In the immediate worldly life, such as flogging, stoning, and slitting the throat.
عَاجِلِ immediate
This noun is the head of an 'of' pairing ('the immediate (part) of...'), so it owns the noun that follows and drops its own article; governed by 'in', it sits in the (genitive). It singles out the near, present portion of life. The pairing is completed by the next word.