Arabic vocabulary

قَذْفdefamation in Arabic

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

Example sentences

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 →

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