كَبِيرِlarge

Example sentences

• فَتَجِدُ أَحَدُهُمْ يَسْأَلُ عَنْ الْأَمْرِ الصَّغِيرِ وَالْكَبِيرِ،

  So you find one of them asking about small and large matters.

  والكبير — and the large. The connector wa- ('and') fused onto an adjective with al- ('the') — 'and the large'. The wa- coordinates it with 'the small' to complete the merism small-and-large, meaning matters of every size. It agrees with the noun in definiteness and genitive case, as Arabic adjectives do.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →

• وَأَقَلُّ مِحْنَةِ الْكَبِيرِ أَنْ تَقَعَ النَّوَاةُ فِي الْكُوزِ،

  And the least trial of the elder is that the pit falls into the jug.

  الْكَبِيرِ — the elder. A substantive adjective 'the elder / the great one', the completing half of 'trial of the elder'. With 'al-' it is definite and stands in the genitive as the owner in that 'of' pairing, naming whose trial is measured.

  From: On Birth and Its Timing →