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بِلَى decay in Arabic

بِلَى is how you say “decay” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

والثاني وهو الأرجح أن تسوية بنانه إعادتها كما كانت بعد ما فرقها البلى في التراب

And the second, which is more likely, is that restoring his fingertips refers to making them as they were after decay had dispersed them in the dust.

البِلَى decay

This noun carries 'the' and is the doer of the scattering verb just before it, even though it follows the verb. Arabic places the subject after its verb as a matter of course, so the agent 'decay' arrives second though it is the one acting.

From Ten Proofs of Resurrection

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