عَلَمًا leading figure in Arabic
عَلَمًا is how you say “leading figure” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
حَتَّى صَارَ عَلَمًا مِنْ أَعْلَامِ بَغْدَادِ،
until he became one of the leading figures of Baghdad.
عَلَمًا a leading figure
An indefinite noun, the predicate of 'became', which is why it takes the object-style ending with the indefinite two-stroke marking you hear as a final -an. It names what he turned into. It is also the head of the possessive pairing completed by the place name ahead.
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