Arabic vocabulary
زُهَّادascetics
How to say “ascetics” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
قَالَ بعض الزهاد
Some ascetics said,
الزُّهَّادِ — ascetics. A plural on the intensive doer-pattern, 'the strict renouncers' of worldly things, serving as the owner in 'some of ___' and so genitive. It is the body from which the 'some' is drawn.
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