غَرَائِبَstrange things

Example sentences

• وآخر منهم إن حضر في ختمة أو تلا في محراب جعل ديدنه إحضار غرائب الوجوه والسكت،

  Another of them, when present at a completion or when reciting in the prayer niche, made it his habit to produce strange facial expressions and to remain silent.

  غَرَائِبَ — strange things. A broken-plural noun 'oddities/strange things' forming the owned half of an 'of' pairing with 'the faces' next - 'oddities of the faces', i.e. strange facial contortions. Two nouns side by side give the possessive with no word for 'of'. Its plural shape is the irregular vowel-shuffled kind Arabic uses rather than a simple added ending.

  From: Sincere Worship →