Arabic vocabulary
وَصِيَّة is how you say “command” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
وإن أعرضت كإعراضك عن وصية الإله العظيم ،
And if you turn away as you turned away from the command of the Almighty God,
وَصِيَّةِ — the command of. This noun, 'the command of', sits in the possessed ending forced by the preposition before it, and it also heads a possessive pairing with the divine name that follows, owning it. So it is doubly bound: governed by 'away from' on one side and owning the next word on the other, with no spoken 'of'.
From: True Devotion →انتهت الوصية قوبلت
The counsel is concluded and accepted.
الوَصِيَّةُ — the counsel. The al- marks this definite, 'the counsel, the testament', and it is the feminine subject of the verb before it, in the plain subject ending. That is why the verb took a feminine ending; the noun lands after its verb as the thing that ended.
From: True Devotion →OpenArabic teaches words like وَصِيَّة through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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