عَرَبِيُّthe Arab

Example sentences

• فَالْعَرَبِيُّ يَقُولُ مِنْ مَعَاشَرَتِهِنَّ وَيْلِي

  So the Arab says, "Woe to me from living among them."

  فَالْعَرَبِيُّ — so the Arab. The prefix fa- ('so') plus al- ('the') fused onto a noun. Here fa- signals a turn to the upshot — 'so the Arab ...' — drawing a consequence from what came before, while al- makes the noun specific. The fa- ties this new statement to the preceding argument as its result.

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