Arabic vocabulary
يَسْتَوِيَانِare equal in Arabic
يَسْتَوِيَانِ is how you say “are equal” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَإِنْ الرَّجُلَيْنِ لَا يَسْتَوِيَانِ فِي أَعْمَالِ الْبِرِّ
And indeed, the two men are not equal in deeds of righteousness,
يَسْتَوِيَانِ — are equal. This is a present-tense verb with a DUAL subject ('the two of them') folded into its ending, a form English lacks. With the preceding negation it reads 'the two are not equal'. The dual ending matches the dual subject named before.
From: On Reason and Temptation →
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