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فُقَرَاءِ the poor in Arabic

فُقَرَاءِ is how you say “the poor” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

ويستدعي معرفة حسنة بالتفسير وإكثارا من حكايات الفقراء والزهاد

It requires good understanding of interpretation and an abundance of stories about the poor and ascetics.

الْفُقَرَاءِ the poor

This is the owner completing 'stories of the poor', so it takes the genitive of the possessive relation. It is a broken plural — the singular reshaped from within — and belongs to a class that resists the usual nunation (a 'diptote'), so its ending stays bare.

From Sincere Preaching

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More example sentences

وكان لا يأخذ على المعالجة أجرا من الفقراء وأوساط الناس،

He would not accept a fee for treatment from the poor and middle-class people.

الفُقَرَاءِ the poor

This is the noun governed by 'from', in the genitive and made definite by 'al-', naming the poor as one source he declined to charge.

From Moderation in Medicine

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