عِلْمَ knowledge in Arabic
عِلْمَ is how you say “knowledge” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَاِعْلَمْ لِي عِلْمَ هَذَا الْرَّجُلِ
Find out for me about this man.
عِلْمَ information
The noun naming what is to be found out; it is the object the command acts on, its ending in the object case. It also heads a pairing with the man named next, 'the news of this man'.
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مَنْ رَجُلٌ يَذْهَبُ فَيَعْلَمُ لَنَا عِلْمَ الْقَوْمِ
Is there a man who will go and learn for us the knowledge of the people?
عَلَمٍ knowledge
This noun is the thing the verb 'learn' acts on, its direct object, and it also heads an 'X of Y' pair finished by the next word. So it is both what gets learned and the owned half of 'the knowledge of the people'. The following genitive noun tells you whose knowledge.
ثُمَّ قَالَ مَنْ رَجُلٌ يَذْهَبُ فَيَعْلَمُ لِنَا عِلْمَ الْقَوْمِ
Then he said, 'There is a man who goes and learns the people's knowledge for us.'
عَلَمَ knowledge
This noun is what the verb 'learn' takes as its object, and it heads an 'X of Y' pair completed by the next word. So it is both the thing learned and the owned half of 'the knowledge of the people'. The following genitive noun names whose knowledge it is.
فَقَالَ مَنْ رَجُلٌ يَذْهَبُ فَيُعْلِمُ لَنَا عِلْمَ الْقَوْمِ
So he said, "Let a man go and find out about the people for us."
عَلَمَ information
This noun is the object of the informing verb and also heads an 'X of Y' pair completed by the next word, so it owns 'the people'. It is both what gets reported and the owned half of the chain. The following genitive names whose news it is.
ورجل تعلم العلم وعلمه، وقرأ القرآن، فأتي به، فعرفه نعمه فعرفها قال فما عملت فيها؟
And a man who learned knowledge and taught it, and read the Quran. He will be brought, and Allah will make him recognize His blessings, and he will recognize them. He will say: 'What did you do with them?'
العِلْمَ knowledge
This noun is the direct object of 'learned', so it takes the accusative ending; the al- makes it definite, 'the knowledge'. It names what the man acquired, the first of the deeds his case rests on.