صِفَة attribute in Arabic
صِفَة is how you say “attribute” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَإِذا تجلى بِصفة السّمع وَالْبَصَر وَالْعلم
And when He manifests in the attributes of hearing, seeing, and knowledge.
بِصِفَةِ in the attributes
'Bi-' fused with 'attribute' (singular), first term of an 'of' pairing — 'with the attribute of hearing' — genitive. The 'bi-' marks the guise; it owns the noun that follows.
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وَإِذا تجلى بِصِفَات الْكِفَايَة والحسب وَالْقِيَام بمصالح الْعباد
And when He manifests in the attributes of sufficiency, care, and attending to the interests of the servants.
بِصِفَاتِ in the attributes
'Bi-' fused with 'attributes', first term of an 'of' pairing — 'with attributes of sufficiency' — genitive. The 'bi-' marks the guise; it owns the noun that follows.
وَإِذا تجلى بِصِفَات الْعِزّ والكبرياء
And when He manifests in the attributes of might and majesty.
بِصِفَاتِ in the attributes
'Bi-' fused with 'attributes', first term of an 'of' pairing — 'with attributes of might' — genitive. The 'bi-' marks the guise; it owns the noun that follows.
فهذه أربع صفات أخرجتهم من زمرة المفلحين وأدخلتهم في جملة الهالكين
So, these are four traits that removed them from the group of the successful and placed them among the doomed.
صِفَاتٍ traits
This noun lacks 'the' and is plural, naming attributes or traits, owned by 'four' before it. It takes the genitive ending of a counted noun and supplies what the four are: characteristics.
والأصولي الذي أثبت بعض الصفات ونفى بعضها وتأول في أماكن يقولون متناقضا،
And the theologian who affirms some attributes and negates others and interprets in some places, they call him contradictory.
الصِّفَاتِ the attributes
This noun, the attributes, is the owner half of the pairing, in the genitive that the second slot demands, definite by 'al-'. The chain reads 'some of the attributes', the genitive marking what the 'some' is drawn from.