Arabic vocabulary
جَاهِلِيَّةِthe Age of Ignorance
How to say “the Age of Ignorance” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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