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عَلّامَة
a great scholar (someone of exceptional, encyclopedic learning) /ʕalˈlaːma/
nounB2#3422 most common
Also: a leading authority, a polymath
Example sentences
أبي عَلّامَة.
My father is a great scholar.
هذا الرجل عَلّامَة كبير.
This man is a major scholar.
كان الشيخ عَلّامَة في الفقه والحديث.
The sheikh was a great scholar in jurisprudence and hadith.
اشتهر ابن خلدون بكونه عَلّامَة موسوعيًا في التاريخ والاجتماع.
Ibn Khaldun was known as an encyclopedic scholar in history and sociology.
يُعدّ ذلك العَلّامَة من أبرز من كتبوا في التفسير خلال القرن الماضي.
That great scholar is counted among the most prominent writers on Quranic exegesis of the past century.
رغم تواضعه الجم، ظل ذلك العَلّامَة الراحل مرجعًا لا يُستغنى عنه في الدراسات اللغوية حتى بعد وفاته.
Despite his great modesty, the late scholar remained an indispensable reference in linguistic studies even after his death.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عَلّامَةٌ | عَلّامَاتٌ |
| Genitive | عَلّامَةٍ | عَلّامَاتٍ |
| Accusative | عَلّامَةً | عَلّامَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا عَلّامَةُ | يا عَلّامَاتُ |
Word family
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root ع ل م, meaning to know. Arabic builds intensive nouns by doubling the middle root letter and adding the pattern فَعّالة, which marks an extreme or habitual degree of a quality. Applied to علم, this yields عَلّامَة, someone marked by an extreme degree of knowledge. The pattern is the same one that gives Arabic words like نسّابة, a person deeply versed in genealogy.
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