Arabic vocabulary
وَصْفdescription in Arabic
وَصْف is how you say “description” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
اسمعوا وصفي للسلف فإني ألتذ بذكرهم التذاذ
Listen to my description of the predecessors, for I find pleasure in mentioning them.
وَصْفِي — my description. The attached -i adds 'my', and this opens a possessive pairing, 'my description of the predecessors'. As the object of the command 'listen to', it carries the -a ending while heading the pairing that the next word completes.
From: Signs of God's Transcendence →
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