Arabic vocabulary

سُوَيْعَاتِbrief moments in Arabic

سُوَيْعَاتِ is how you say “brief moments” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

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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