No. 524 in Arabic
عليهم
"Upon them" or "on them."
In a sentence
قال المعلم لطلابه: يجب عليكم التركيز على الصف.
The teacher said to his students: You must focus on the class.
In this sentence, 'عليكم' (a variant of 'عليهم' for addressing the second person plural) denotes obligation or responsibility directed to the addressed group.
دعا عليهم بالخير والرزق الوفير.
He prayed for them to have goodness and plentiful sustenance.
Here, 'عليهم' indicates the target group of a supplication or invocation.
وضعت الأوراق على الطاولة وكتبت عليهم الملاحظات.
I placed the papers on the table and wrote comments on them.
In this case, 'عليهم' refers to the surfaces of the papers on which something was written.
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