Arabic vocabulary
How to say “leading figures” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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.
From: Public Preaching →OpenArabic teaches words like أَعْلَامِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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