Word
لا تقتصر هذه الصيحة على الشرق، بل تتجاوز ذلك إلى الغرب.
Meaning
This trend is not limited to the East, but extends beyond that to the West.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of لا تقتصر هذه الصيحة على الشرق، بل تتجاوز ذلك إلى الغرب.
الal
the
هذاhâdhâ
this (m)
إلىilâ
to
ذلكzâlika
that (masculine)
Questions & Answers about لا تقتصر هذه الصيحة على الشرق، بل تتجاوز ذلك إلى الغرب.
The lesson title uses لا يقتصر, but this sentence uses لا تقتصر. Why the change to feminine?
The verbs in this structure must agree with the gender of the subject. Here, the subject is هذه الصيحة (this trend), which is feminine. Therefore, both verbs in the construction take the feminine prefix تـ, giving us تقتصر (is limited) and تتجاوز (extends/goes beyond).
The lesson teaches the phrase as بل يتجاوزه (but extends beyond it), but here we see بل تتجاوز ذلك. Why use ذلك instead of an attached pronoun?
Both are grammatically correct and carry the same meaning. You could absolutely say بل تتجاوزهُ (but extends beyond it), with the attached pronoun ـه referring back to الشرق (the East). Substituting an attached pronoun with the independent demonstrative pronoun ذلك (that) is a common stylistic choice in MSA that adds a bit of rhetorical emphasis, translating literally to 'but extends beyond that to the West.'
Why is the preposition على used for the East, but إلى is used for the West?
In Arabic, verbs dictate which prepositions must follow them. The verb اقتصر (to be limited) always pairs with على (literally: limited on). On the other hand, the verb تجاوز (to pass or extend) implies movement toward a new destination, so it pairs with إلى (to) when specifying where the trend is going next, which in this case is الغرب (the West).
Doesn't the word normally mean 'a cry' or 'a shout'? How does it translate to 'trend' here?