Arabic vocabulary
الشَّأْنُstanding in Arabic
الشَّأْنُ is how you say “standing” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَإِذَا فَرَغُوا أَخَذَ هَذَا الْإِمَامُ الْغَرِيبُ الشَّأْنُ فِي إِيرَادِ خُطْبَتِهِ عَجَلًا مُبْتَدِرًا،
When they had finished, this imam of uncommon standing hurriedly began to deliver his sermon.
الشَّأْنِ — standing. A noun 'standing/affair', the owning second term of 'uncommon of standing', hence the genitive. It completes the epithet, the construct meaning 'remarkable in his condition'. The of-pairing carries the relation with no separate word, marking him as singular in rank.
From: Public Preaching →
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