عَضِّsome of in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَلِهَذَا كَانَ بِعَضِّ الشُّيُوخِ إِذَا أَمَرَ مُتَّبِعِيهِ بِالتَّوْبَةِ

  For this reason, when some of the sheikhs would order their followers to repent,

  بِعَضِّ — some of. A preposition fused to a noun, used here to mean 'some of', putting the following noun in the genitive. It picks out a subset of the group named next.

  From: Truthfulness and Righteousness →