الْكَتَائِبِthe detachments in Arabic

Example sentences

• ثُمَّ جَاءَتْ كَتِيبَةٌ، وَهِيَ أَقَلُّ الْكَتَائِبِ،

  Then a detachment arrived, and it was the smallest of the detachments.

  الْكَتَائِبِ — the detachments. The definite plural 'the detachments' is the owner half of 'the smallest of the detachments', the group the comparison is measured within, and it sits in the genitive. This 'X-est of Y' pairing is Arabic's way of forming a superlative.

  From: Conquest of Mecca Account →