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سُوَيْعَاتِ brief moments in Arabic

سُوَيْعَاتِ is how you say “brief moments” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

حَتَّى السُّوَيْعَاتِ الَّتِي يَضْطَرُّ فِيهَا لِاسْتِقْبَالِ زَائِرِيهِ،

Even the brief moments when he was compelled to receive his visitors,

السُّوَيْعَاتِ brief moments

A definite plural noun built on a diminutive pattern, the inner shaping that shrinks 'hours' into 'little moments'. The diminutive is a form Arabic carries inside the word rather than with an extra adjective. Introduced by 'even', it names the tiny time-spans at issue.

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