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أُسْطُورَة
legend /ʔusˈtˤuːra/
nounB1#2090 most common
Also: myth, fable, icon (of a person of legendary stature)
Example sentences
هٰذِهِ أُسْطُورَةٌ قَدِيمَةٌ.
This is an old legend.
أُحِبُّ قِراءَةَ الأَساطِيرِ في اللَّيْلِ.
I like reading legends at night.
حَكَتْ لَنا جَدَّتِي أُسْطُورَةً جَمِيلَةً.
My grandmother told us a beautiful legend.
يَعْتَقِدُ بَعْضُ النّاسِ أَنَّ هٰذِهِ القِصَّةَ مُجَرَّدُ أُسْطُورَةٍ لا أَساسَ لَها.
Some people believe this story is just a baseless myth.
تَحَوَّلَ اللاعِبُ إلى أُسْطُورَةٍ حَقِيقِيَّةٍ في تارِيخِ كُرَةِ القَدَمِ.
The player became a true legend in the history of football.
تَتَناقَلُ الأَجْيالُ أَساطِيرَ الأَوَّلِينَ التي نَسَجَتْها المُخَيِّلَةُ الشَّعْبِيَّةُ عَبْرَ القُرُونِ.
Generations pass down the legends of the ancients that the popular imagination wove across the centuries.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أُسْطُورَةٌ | أَساطِيرُ |
| Genitive | أُسْطُورَةٍ | أَساطِيرَ |
| Accusative | أُسْطُورَةً | أَساطِيرَ |
| Vocative | يا أُسْطُورَةُ | يا أَساطِيرُ |
Word family
أُسْطُورِيّmythical, legendary
أَساطِيرlegends, myths (plural)
سَطْرline of text
سَطَّرَto write in lines, to inscribe
مِسْطَرةruler
Etymology
أُسْطُورَة means a legend or myth. Arabic lexicographers link it to the root س ط ر, to write or to set down in lines, since such tales were recorded and handed on. Many scholars instead trace it to the Greek historia, meaning inquiry or narrative, which reached Arabic through late antique contact. The plural أَساطِير appears in the Quran in the phrase 'tales of the ancients.'
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