الْأَشْرَافُnobles

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ وَيْحَكَ أُكْتُبْهُ فَإِنَّ الْأَشْرَافُ يَعْجِبُهُمْ الْمُلَاحَةُ

  He said, "Woe to you; write it down, for the nobles admire ornamented speech."

  الْأَشْرَافُ — the nobles. The al- makes this plural definite, 'the' nobles, the known group. It is the topic the emphasis particle inna just fronted, so it wears the accusative ending inna forces on its noun, while standing as the doer of the verb that follows.

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