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أَغْرَب
the strangest one (odder/oddest thing) /ˈʔaɣrab/
nounB1#2338 most common
Also: stranger, more strange, the oddest thing
Example sentences
هذا أَغْرَب كتاب قرأته.
This is the strangest book I've read.
ما أَغْرَب هذا الحيوان!
How strange this animal is!
سمعتُ أَغْرَب قصة في حياتي أمس.
I heard the strangest story of my life yesterday.
من الأَغْرَب أن تجد ثلجًا في وسط الصحراء.
It is stranger still to find snow in the middle of the desert.
كانت رحلتنا إلى تلك الجزيرة أَغْرَب تجربة مررنا بها على الإطلاق.
Our trip to that island was the strangest experience we have ever gone through.
يُعتبر هذا الحادث الغامض أَغْرَب ما سجله التاريخ الحديث من ظواهر لا تفسير لها.
This mysterious incident is considered the strangest thing modern history has recorded among unexplained phenomena.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أَغْرَبُ | أَغْرَبُونَ |
| Genitive | أَغْرَبَ | أَغْرَبِينَ |
| Accusative | أَغْرَبَ | أَغْرَبِينَ |
| Vocative | أَغْرَبُ | أَغْرَبُونَ |
Word family
غَرِيبstrange; a stranger or foreigner
غَرَابَةstrangeness, oddity
اغْتِرَابestrangement, emigration
مُغْتَرِبexpatriate
غَرْبwestEtymology
أَغْرَب comes from the Semitic root غ-ر-ب (gh-r-b), whose core sense is distance, departure, and foreignness. From this root Arabic also gets غَرْب (west, where the sun departs) and غَرِيب (strange, a stranger). أَغْرَب is the elative (comparative/superlative) pattern أَفْعَل built on غَرِيب, so it literally means 'more/most strange' and gets used as a standalone noun for 'the strangest one.'
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