أَجْر wage in Arabic
أَجْر is how you say “wage” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ مَنْ يَتَّقِ وَيَصْبِرْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ
He said: Indeed, whoever is conscious of God and is patient, Allah does not let the reward of the doers of good be lost.
أَجْرَ reward
A noun ('reward') in the accusative as the direct object of the verb, the thing not lost. It also heads an 'of' pairing with the next word, naming whose reward.
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وقال الثالث اللهم استأجرت أجراء وأعطيتهم أجرهم غير رجل واحد ترك الذى له وذهب، فثمرت أجره حتى كثرت منه الأموال،
The third said: 'O Allah, I hired laborers and paid them their wages except for one man who left without taking his pay. I invested his wages until they multiplied into wealth.'
أُجُورَهُم their wages
This noun is the thing-given of 'paid', so it takes the accusative ending, and it carries the possessor -hum ('their'), 'their wages'. The suffix folds the owners onto the noun, naming what the workers were owed.
وقال الثالث اللهم استأجرت أجراء وأعطيتهم أجرهم غير رجل واحد ترك الذى له وذهب، فثمرت أجره حتى كثرت منه الأموال،
The third said: 'O Allah, I hired laborers and paid them their wages except for one man who left without taking his pay. I invested his wages until they multiplied into wealth.'
أَجْرَهُ his wages
This noun is the direct object of 'invested', so it takes the accusative ending, and it carries the possessor -hu ('his'), 'his wage'. The suffix folds the absent worker's ownership onto the noun, naming what was put to work.
فجاءنى بعد حين فقال يا عبد الله أدّ إلى أجرى، فقلت كل ما ترى من أجرك من الإبل والبقر والغنم والرقيق
After some time, he returned to me and said: 'O Servant of Allah, return my wages to me.' I said: 'Look at everything you see; it is all from your wages: camels, cows, sheep, and servants.'
أَجْرِي my wages
This noun is the direct object of 'pay over', so it takes the accusative ending, and it carries the possessor -i ('my'), 'my wage'. The suffix folds 'my' onto the noun, naming what the worker demands back.
فجاءنى بعد حين فقال يا عبد الله أدّ إلى أجرى، فقلت كل ما ترى من أجرك من الإبل والبقر والغنم والرقيق
After some time, he returned to me and said: 'O Servant of Allah, return my wages to me.' I said: 'Look at everything you see; it is all from your wages: camels, cows, sheep, and servants.'
أَجْرِكَ your wages
This noun carries the possessor -ka ('your') in the 'of' (genitive) ending, 'your wage', and is the source the visible wealth grew from. The suffix folds 'your' onto the noun, marking the property as rightfully the worker's.