Arabic vocabulary
صِفْdescribe in Arabic
صِفْ is how you say “describe” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وقيل له صف لنا الحسن،
And he was told: Describe Al-Hasan to us.
صِفْ — describe. This is a command to one person, 'describe', built by paring the verb down rather than adding a word like 'please'. The singular addressee is carried inside the imperative shape itself.
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