Arabic vocabulary
ثُّرَيّاthe Pleiades
How to say “the Pleiades” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَهِمَمُهُمْ عِندَ الثُّرَيّا؛
And their ambitions are at the Pleiades.
الثُّرَيّا — the Pleiades. A proper noun, the name of a star cluster, made definite and taking the 'of' (genitive) ending forced by the 'at' before it. Used figuratively for great height, it completes the location-predicate, placing the aspirations as high as the stars.
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