ـ dash in Arabic
ـ is how you say “dash” in Arabic.
Arabic
English
The audio uses AI voices.
Example sentence
عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ ـ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ ـ حَدَّثَ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ مُعَاذٍ،
Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated from Sa'd ibn Mu'adh,
ـ dash
A typographic dash carried over from the printed text; it brackets the upcoming honorific phrase and carries no grammatical role of its own.
The English is machine-translated.
Practise this word in the app
One tap gives you the meaning, a grammar note and audio.
Add the words you don’t know. Practise them with spaced repetition.
Free. No ads. No subscription.
An account is needed in the app.
More example sentences
عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ ـ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ ـ حَدَّثَ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ مُعَاذٍ،
Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated from Sa'd ibn Mu'adh,
ـ dash
A typographic dash from the printed text closing off the honorific aside; it has no grammatical function.
عَنْ عَائِشَةِ ـ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا ـ قَالَتْ
Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, said:
ـ dash
A dash standing in as an editorial separator that fences off the inserted honorific from the running text. It carries no grammatical role of its own; it is punctuation marking where the bracketed blessing begins.
عَنْ عَائِشَةِ ـ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا ـ قَالَتْ
Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, said:
ـ dash
A dash acting as an editorial separator, closing off the inserted honorific from the resumed narration. It has no grammatical job; it is punctuation marking the boundary of the bracketed blessing.
عَائِشَةُ وَحَفْصَةُ ـ ثُمَّ قَالَ ـ
Aisha and Hafsa — then he said —
ـ em dash
A dash mark setting off an inserted aside in the text; it carries no grammatical role, just signalling a pause or editorial break.
عَائِشَةُ وَحَفْصَةُ ـ ثُمَّ قَالَ ـ
Aisha and Hafsa — then he said —
ـ em dash
A dash mark closing the inserted aside; it is punctuation only, marking the pause around the editorial insertion with no grammatical function.
فَيَقُولُ لَسْتُ هُنَاكُمْ ـ
And he will say, 'I am not among you—'
ـ dash
Not a word but an editorial dash standing in for an interrupted or trailing-off line; it carries no grammar of its own and simply marks that the quoted speech breaks off here.
وَكَلَّمَهُ تَكْلِيمًا ـ
And He spoke to him directly.
ـ dash
Not a word but an editorial dash marking a pause or that the line trails off; it has no part of speech and no grammatical role, serving only as a punctuation mark in the text.
وَيَذْكُرُ لَهُمْ خَطِيئَتَهُ الَّتِي أَصَابَ ـ
And he will mention to them the sin he committed—
ـ dash
Not a word but an editorial dash signalling that the quoted line is cut short or continues elsewhere; it carries no grammar and acts purely as a punctuation mark.