سَوْدَاءُdarkness in Arabic

Example sentences

• الْأَصْنَام لذات الدُّنْيَا كسوداء

  The idols are the pleasures of this world, like a dark-skinned woman.

  كَسَوْدَاءِ — like darkness. 'Ka-' (like) fused with a noun 'a black woman' — the predicate, 'are like a dark woman'; the 'ka-' sets up the comparison and governs the genitive (a diptote color-form, so '-a' without tanwin). The world's delights likened to an alluring but lowly figure.

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