Arabic vocabulary
أَوْسَطُ is how you say “middle” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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.
From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →OpenArabic teaches words like أَوْسَطُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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