Arabic vocabulary
أَعْدَاءٍenemies in Arabic
أَعْدَاءٍ is how you say “enemies” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَسُلِّطَ عَلَى قَلْبِهِ أَرْبَعَةُ أَعْدَاءٍ
And four enemies were set upon his heart.
أَعدَاء — enemies. This is a 'broken' plural, where Arabic makes the plural by reshaping the inside of the singular rather than adding an ending. Standing right after the number 'four', it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending, the form Arabic uses for the noun that a number from three to ten counts.
From: The Four Inner Guards →
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