عَجَبpride

Example sentences

• والخيل المسومة يجول بها في حلبة العجب المغوار،

  And the branded horses are paraded in the arena of the bold, showcasing pride,

  العَجَبِ — of pride. The owning half of 'arena of pride', sitting in the genitive because it completes the possessive pairing. Arabic shows the 'of' through the ending and the order alone, with no separate word, tying the arena to the showy pride it stages.

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