Arabic vocabulary
عَجَبِwonder
How to say “wonder” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
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 →
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