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شَمْسٌ sun in Arabic

شَمْسٌ is how you say “sun” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

ياعجبا من يُغطي عين ضوء الشَّمْس فِي نصف النَّهَار

How amazing is one who covers the eye of the sun's light at midday!

الشَّمْسِ the sun

As the last link of the chain, this noun carries the genitive ending and supplies the definiteness for the whole 'eye-of-the-light-of-the-sun' string; the earlier nouns borrowed their 'the' from it.

From The Prophet's Refuge in the Cave

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