Arabic vocabulary
دَاعِيِّadvocate in Arabic
دَاعِيِّ is how you say “advocate” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
إِحْدَاهَا أَنْ يَكُونَ الْقَهْرُ وَالْغَلْبَةُ لِدَاعِيِّ الدَّيْنِ
One of them is that coercion and dominance belong to the advocate of religion.
لِدَاعِيِّ — for the advocate. The li- prefix is the 'to/for' preposition marking possession here: it assigns the coercion and dominance to its object as their owner. It forces the genitive on the following noun and answers 'belong to whom?' in the clause.
From: Three States of the Heart →
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