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شَمْسُ the sun in Arabic

شَمْسُ is how you say “the sun” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَٱِرْتَحَلْنَا بَعْدَ مَا مَالَتِ اَلْشَّمْسُ،

So we set out after the sun had inclined.

اَلْشَّمْسُ the sun

A definite feminine noun, the sun, made so by its fused 'al-' (the), standing as the subject of 'inclined' before it, so it takes the subject ending. Being feminine, it is what triggered the feminine '-at' on that verb. Its first letter is a sun-letter, so the 'al-' blends into a doubled 'sh' in speech (ash-shams).

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