Arabic vocabulary
أَعْلَامِleading figures in Arabic
أَعْلَامِ is how you say “leading figures” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
حَتَّى صَارَ عَلَمًا مِنْ أَعْلَامِ بَغْدَادِ،
until he became one of the leading figures of Baghdad.
أَعْلَامِ — leading figures. A plural noun acting as the head of a possessive pairing with the city name that follows, governed by the partitive 'from' so it sits in the genitive. It names the class of notables, with the place name specifying whose notables they are.
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