Arabic-L:LING:Al-Ighraab

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Date: 03 Nov 2008
From:Francesco Leggio <jawhar at email.it>
Subject:Al-Ighraab

To me this word looks like a masdar of form Af'ala, but one should  
know the
sentence and the context where it is used. Out of any context, I would
understand al-ighraab as the intention or action of astonishing, in this
sense I have heard it used by an Iraki professor of Arabic.
Salamat
Francesco Leggio

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