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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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