صغير (saghiir) — "young " in Modern Standard Arabic
صغير
Saġiir
young
- Topic
- mankind and kinship
- Seen in
- 2 of our stories
"young " in the other dialects
Moroccan Darija
صْغيْر
صغير 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.
لكن الحفيد الصغير فضل هاتفا جديدا من بائع مختلف
Lakinna al-hafida as-saghir fadala hatifan jadidan min ba'i'in mukhtalifin.
But the young grandson preferred a new phone from a different seller.
from A Trip to the Market
صرح ابن عمي الصغير عمر ان هذه اسعد لحظة في يومه
Sarraha ibn 'ammi as-saghir 'Umar anna haathihi as'ad lahza fi yawmih.
My young cousin, Omar, declared that this was the happiest moment of his day.
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