Arabic vocabulary

غَرَائِبَstrange things in Arabic

غَرَائِبَ is how you say “strange things” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

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.
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