Arabic vocabulary
زَاهِدٌan ascetic in Arabic
زَاهِدٌ is how you say “an ascetic” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
أَوْ زَاهِدٌ يَتَقَلَّبُ بِرَأْيِهِ الْفَاسِدِ فِي جَهَالَتِهِ،
Or an ascetic who keeps shifting his corrupt opinion in his ignorance,
زاهدٌ — an ascetic. An indefinite noun heading this figure's description, presented bare with no 'the' as a fresh, unspecified type. As the subject of the clause that follows, it is the 'ascetic' whose conduct the next words go on to characterise.
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