بِـ by in Arabic
بِـ is how you say “by” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
ثم أقسم سبحانه ب ﴿وَالسَّمَاءِ ذَاتِ الرَّجْعِ وَالأَرْضِ ذَاتِ الصَّدْعِ﴾
Then He, the Exalted, swore by "the sky with its returning rain and the earth with its splitting growth."
بِـ by
A preposition 'by', the oath-marker fused as a bare prefix, introducing what is sworn upon. It forces the genitive ending on the following noun.
The English is machine-translated.
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More example sentences
ثم أقسم سبحانه ب ﴿وَالسَّمَاءِ ذَاتِ الرَّجْعِ وَالأَرْضِ ذَاتِ الصَّدْعِ﴾
Then Allah, the Exalted, swore by 'the sky which returns' and 'the earth which cleaves open.'
بِـ by
This is the bare oath preposition 'by', the standard particle Arabic uses to swear by something. It governs the noun it is attached to in the genitive and marks whatever follows as the thing sworn by. English says 'I swear by'; Arabic loads that 'by' onto this small prefix.