Arabic vocabulary

الْأَشْرَافُnobles in Arabic

الْأَشْرَافُ is how you say “nobles” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

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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