النُّجُومِthe stars in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَكَانَ فِيهَا مِنَ الزَنْدَقَةِ وَعِبَادَةِ النُّجُومِ وَرَأْيُ الْأَوَائِلِ شَيْءٌ كَثِيرٌ،

  And in it there was much heresy, star-worship, and many opinions of the early authorities.

  النجوم — the stars. A definite plural noun 'the stars' completing the 'worship of …' pair as its owner, in the genitive as the second member and lending definiteness back to 'worship', together naming star-worship.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →