Arabic vocabulary
How to say “defamation” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَذَكَرَ مِنْهَا الشِّرْكَ بِاللَّهِ، وَالسِّحْرَ، وَقَتْلَ النَّفْسِ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللهُ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ، وَأَكْلَ مَالِ الْيَتِيمِ، وَأَكْلَ الرِّبَا، وَالتَّوَلِّيَ يَوْمَ الزَّحْفِ، وَقَذْفَ الْمُحْصَنَاتِ الْغَافِلَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْهِ
He mentioned among them: associating partners with Allah, sorcery, unjust killing, consuming the wealth of an orphan, usury, fleeing from the battlefield, and falsely accusing chaste, unaware, believing women - agreed upon by scholars.
وَقَذْفَ — and falsely accusing. A fused 'and' plus a noun, 'and the slandering', the head of an 'X of Y' chain, 'slandering the chaste women'. The final listed object, it owns the noun that follows.
From: What Small Worship Erases →OpenArabic teaches words like قَذْف through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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