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جَاهِلِيَّةِthe Age of Ignorance in Arabic
جَاهِلِيَّةِ is how you say “the Age of Ignorance” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
كُنَّا فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ لَا نَعُدُّ النِّسَاءَ شَيْئًا،
We were in the Age of Ignorance; we did not regard women as anything,
الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ — the Age of Ignorance. A noun with 'al-' naming the pre-Islamic era; standing after 'in', it sits in the 'of' ending. The 'al-' here marks a single well-known period rather than 'the' generic.
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