عَقْلُ intellect in Arabic
عَقْلُ is how you say “intellect” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
مَا يَتِمُّ عَقْلُ اِمْرِئٍ حَتَّى يَكُونَ فِيهِ عَشَرُ خِصَالٍ
A person's intellect is not complete until he has ten qualities.
عَقْلُ intellect
This is the subject doing the verb, so it sits in the subject case even though it comes after its verb, which is normal Arabic order. It opens a possessive pairing with the next word: 'the intellect of a person', the two nouns set side by side with no separate 'of'. It surrenders its own article to take definiteness from the owner that follows.
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فَهُنَاكَ حِيْنٌ اِسْتَكْمَلَ الْعَقْلُ
Then there came a time when the intellect reached completion.
الْعقل the intellect
Definite by 'al-' and standing in the subject case as the doer of 'reached completeness', though it comes after its verb, which is ordinary Arabic order. The subject-case ending tells the listener this is what did the completing. It closes the parable on the perfected intellect.
وَهِيَ الْمَعْرِفَةُ وَالْعَقْلُ وَالْإِيمَانُ وَالْيَقِينُ
And it is knowledge, intellect, faith, and certainty.
وَالْعقل and intellect
The 'wa-' couples 'intellect' onto 'knowledge' as the second item in the list of the four. It is definite by 'al-' and shares the predicate role, so the connector strings the named items together one by one.