Arabic vocabulary
الأَوَائِلِ is how you say “the early authorities” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَكَانَ فِيهَا مِنَ الزَنْدَقَةِ وَعِبَادَةِ النُّجُومِ وَرَأْيُ الْأَوَائِلِ شَيْءٌ كَثِيرٌ،
And in it there was much heresy, star-worship, and many opinions of the early authorities.
الأَوَائِلِ — the early authorities. A definite plural noun 'the early ones / predecessors' completing the 'opinion of …' pair as its owner, in the genitive as the second member and lending definiteness back to 'opinion'.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →OpenArabic teaches words like الأَوَائِلِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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