Arabic vocabulary

غَيَّارdeceptive in Arabic

غَيَّار is how you say “deceptive” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

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'.
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