Arabic vocabulary

حِيْلَةٍa stratagem in Arabic

حِيْلَةٍ is how you say “a stratagem” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَالْخَيْلُ الْمَوْسُومَةُ وَالْأَنْعَامُ وَالْحَرْثَ فَلِلشَّهَوَاتِ حِيْلَةٍ غِيَارٍ،
And the branded horses, the livestock, and the cultivated fields — desires have a deceitful device for substitution.
حِيْلَةٍ — a stratagem. An indefinite noun meaning a ruse or device, here the subject of a verbless 'X has Y' statement — 'the desires have a stratagem'. Arabic states possession by placing the 'for ...' phrase first and the possessed thing after, with no verb. Its indefiniteness keeps the trick unspecified.
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