غَيَّارdeceptive

Example sentences

• زين للناس حب الشهوات من النساء والبنين والقناطير المقنطرة من الذهب والفضة والخيل المسومة والأنعام والحرث فللشهوات حيلة غيار،

  Beautified for people is the love of desires: from women and children, and heaped-up treasures of gold and silver, and branded horses, and cattle and tilled land; but desires have a deceptive strategy,

  غَيَّارٌ — deceptive. A describing word on the intensive pattern, meaning 'much-deceiving / habitually misleading', which qualifies the strategy and matches it in being indefinite. The doubled internal shape adds force, turning a plain 'deceptive' into 'thoroughly given to deceiving'.

  From: Preferring the Hereafter →