Arabic vocabulary
خِطَامٌa bridle
How to say “a bridle” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لِلْمَطِيَّهِ خِطَامٌ وَلَا زِمَامٌ شَرِدَتْ فِي كُلِّ مَذْهَبٍ
If the mount had neither a bridle nor a rein, it ran off in every direction.
خِطَامٌ — a bridle. An indefinite noun ('a bridle') standing as the delayed subject of 'was not' ('there was not for it a bridle'). Its indefiniteness fits the existence-denial: not any bridle.
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