Arabic vocabulary
عَالِمُ is how you say “the scholar” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَالْعَالِمُ مِنْهُمْ يَغْضَبُ إِنْ رُدَّ عَلَيْهِ خَطَؤُهُ،
So the scholar among them becomes angry if his mistake is pointed out to him.
فَالْعَالِمُ — so the scholar. The fa- prefix opens a new step in the argument ('so/now then'), drawing a consequence from what came before, and the al- after it marks 'the scholar' as a definite, representative type. Together they launch the sentence's subject as a generalized figure the claim will be made about.
From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →OpenArabic teaches words like عَالِمُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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