Arabic vocabulary
How to say “carpet” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
الْمعرفَة بِسَاط لَا يطَأ عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا مقرب
Knowledge is a carpet stepped on only by those close to it.
بِساطٌ — carpet. The predicate naming what knowledge is, indefinite nominative (the tanwin) — 'a carpet / spread'. A metaphor: the ground only the near may tread.
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