Arabic vocabulary
أَجَلِّsake in Arabic
أَجَلِّ is how you say “sake” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَكَمْ صِغَرٍ قَاسَى الأَبُ لِأَجَلِّ الصِّغَارِ،
And how often the father endured hardship for the little ones,
لِأَجَلِّ — for the sake of. The preposition li- ('for') fused onto a noun, building a purpose phrase — 'for the sake of'. The li- assigns the following noun its genitive role and frames the hardship as undertaken for a goal. It opens the phrase that says on whose behalf the father suffered.
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