Arabic vocabulary
ثَّانِيُ is how you say “second” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
الْمَثَلُ الثَّانِيُ الظَّبْيُ أَشَدُّ سَعْيًا مِنَ الْكَلْبِ،
The second example: the gazelle exerts itself more than the dog.
الثَّانِيُ — the second. An ordinal 'the second', describing the heading-noun before it and agreeing with it as a definite singular. The shared al- locks the adjective to its noun. Together they read 'the second example'.
From: Choosing Good Companions →وَالْثَّانِيُ أَنَّ حَالَةً سَمَاعِ الْمَوَاعِظِ يَكُونُ الإِنْسَانُ فِيهَا مَزَاحَ الْعِلَّةِ،
Second: that when a person is in the state of listening to admonitions, he is relieved of the impediment.
وَالْثَّانِيُ — and the second:. This joins the linking 'and' to an ordinal used as a heading: 'and the second'. It enumerates the next reason, parallel to the 'first' announced earlier.
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