ثَّرَيَّاPleiades

Example sentences

• إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَتَكَلَّمُ بِالْكَلِمَةِ يَضْحَكُ بِهَا جُلَسَاؤُهُ يَهْوِي بِهَا أَبْعَدَ مِنَ الثَّرَيَّا

  Indeed, a man speaks a word that makes his companions laugh by it, and by it he sinks farther than the Pleiades.

  الثَّرَيَّا — the Pleiades. A proper name for the Pleiades star cluster, used classically as a byword for a far, high place. Sitting after the 'than' preposition it takes the genitive, serving as the remote benchmark the fall is measured against.

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