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Your have several options to express the comparative and superlative in Egyptian Arabic. An overview.
Does Allahu Akbar mean "God is great" or "God is greater" or "God is the Greatest"? There is no clear answer. There even might be an underlying ellipsis.
Strangely, the word for war - حرب - is feminine. There are many words in Arabic that look or feel masculine but are feminine.
The Islamic call to prayer is a tricky construction. In Sunni Islam, the muezzin uses khayr (خير) which strangely denotes a comparative (better). Why?
The word الدنيا (al-Dunya) means the world. But that is only the interpretation of the word - but not the literal meaning!