Arabic vocabulary
عَجِبُواthey were astonished
How to say “they were astonished” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَعَجِبُوا مِنْ جُرْأَةِ إِبْنِهِ فَنَكَسُوا رُؤُوسَهُمْ
They were astonished at his son's audacity, so they bowed their heads.
فَعَجِبُوا — so they were astonished. Consecutive fa- ('and so') on a past-tense verb with the plural 'they' in its ending. The fa- ties the astonishment to the blow just struck.
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