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الْعَالَمِ the people in Arabic

الْعَالَمِ is how you say “the people” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فِيمَا يَجْرِي عَلَى كَثِيرٍ مِنْ الْعَالِمِ

About what happens to many of the people.

الْعَالِمِ the people

The al- marks this as definite, here read collectively as 'the people', and it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending forced by the 'of/from' before it. It completes the partitive phrase, naming the whole community from which the many are taken.

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More example sentences

الَّتِي لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهَا نَظِيرٌ فِي الْعَالَمِ الْإِسْلَامِيِّ

which had no equal in the Islamic world.

الْعَالَمِ the world

A definite noun carrying al-, in the genitive because the 'in' before it governs it. It names the arena, 'the world', and is set up to be narrowed by the adjective that follows. The genitive ending shows its tie to the preposition.

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