مُدِلٌّ boasting in Arabic
مُدِلٌّ is how you say “boasting” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَقَالَ إِنَّك إِن تضحك وَأَنت مقرّ بخطيئتك خير من أَن تبْكي وَأَنت مدل بعملك
He said, 'It is better for you to laugh while acknowledging your sins than to cry while boasting of your deeds.'
مُدِلٌّ boasting
A doer-noun, 'presuming, showing off on the strength of something', the predicate of the second 'while' clause in the '-u' ending. From a doubled root, it captures self-satisfied vaunting, the opposite of confessing.
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وَإِن المدل لَا يصعد عمله فَوق رَأسه
Indeed, the boastful person's deeds do not rise above his head.
المُدِلَّ the boastful person
The subject of 'inna', so it wears the accusative '-a' despite being the topic. It is the doer-noun 'the one who vaunts', the self-satisfied person the saying now judges.