فجر (fajr) — "dawn" in Modern Standard Arabic
فجر
fajr
dawn
- Topic
- time
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- 2 of our stories
"dawn" in the other dialects
فجر in a sentence
Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.
في الصباح تصلي أمينة صلاة الفجر بينما تقرأ ماري كتابها المقدس.
Fi alsabah tusalli amina salat alfajr baynama taqra mari kitabaha almuqaddas.
In the morning, Amina prays the dawn prayer while Mary reads her holy book.
يستيقظ خالد في الصباح الباكر لاداء صلاة الفجر
Yastayqiz Khalid fi as-sabah al-bakir li_ada_ salaat al-fajr
Khalid wakes up in the early morning to perform the dawn prayer
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