Arabic vocabulary
How to say “cloak” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَتَارَة يتجلى فِي جِلْبَاب الهيبة وَالْعَظَمَة والجلال
Sometimes He manifests in the cloak of awe, grandeur, and majesty.
جِلْبَابِ — the cloak of. A noun 'outer garment', first term of an 'of' pairing — 'the cloak of awe' — genitive after 'in'. A metaphor for the guise in which He appears; it owns the noun that follows.
From: Reflecting on God's Names →OpenArabic teaches words like جِلْبَابِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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