Arabic vocabulary

بِزِينَةٍan adornment in Arabic

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

Example sentences

وَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَتَزَيَّنْ الْعِبَّادُ بِزِينَةٍ أَبْلَغِ فِيمَا عِنْدِي مِنَ الزُّهْدِ فِي الدُّنْيَا،
And know that the servants have never adorned themselves with an ornament more effective, in my view, than asceticism in the world.
بِزِينَةٍ — with an adornment. The bi- here is a preposition meaning 'with', marking the means of the adorning, and it governs the indefinite noun it attaches to. No 'the' is present, so it is 'an adornment', some ornament in general. The bi- assigns the 'by means of' role to what follows.
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