Arabic vocabulary
عَجَبِ is how you say “wonder” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَالْخَيْلُ الْمَوْسُومَةُ يَجُولُ بِهَا فِي حَلْبَةِ الْعَجَبِ الْمَغْوَارِ،
And the branded horses, he ranges about on them in the arena of wondrous valor,
الْعَجَبِ — the wonder. Carries al- ('the') and completes 'arena of wonder' as the owner of the chain, so it takes the genitive ending. It names what the arena is an arena of — wonder or marvel. The definiteness treats that wonder as a known quality of the spectacle.
From: This World Is Short →OpenArabic teaches words like عَجَبِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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