Arabic vocabulary
أَوْسَطُmiddle
How to say “middle” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
أَوْسَطُ قُرَيْشِ نَسَبًا وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ مَالًا،
She was of the middle lineage among the Quraysh and the wealthiest of them in wealth.
أَوْسَطُ — middle. A superlative/elative adjective ('most middling') heading an 'of' pairing with the next word ('the middlemost OF Quraysh'). This single elative shape carries the whole 'most...' idea, and as the head of the pairing it is made definite by the group that follows.
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