شِّيعَةِthe Shi'a in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَكَانَتْ الْأَجْوَاءَ بَيْنَ الشِّيْعَةِ وَالسُّنَّةِ المَشْحُونَةَ،

  And the atmosphere between the Shi'a and the Sunnis was tense.

  الشِّيْعَةِ — the Shi'a. A definite proper name, 'the Shi'a', the first of the two parties, in the after-preposition case under 'between'. Its definiteness marks it as the known group.

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