مَثَلًا example in Arabic
مَثَلًا is how you say “example” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَكَمْ مِنْ كَلِمَةٍ تَدُورُ عَلَى الْأَلْسِنِ مَثَلًا جَاءَ الْقُرْآنُ بِالْخَصِّ مِنْهَا وَأَحْسَنَ
And how many phrases circulate on the tongues as an example, which the Quran has refined and improved.
مَثَلًا as an example
This is 'example, proverb' used adverbially, 'as a proverb'. The accusative ending is what lets a noun act in this describing, circumstantial role, telling in what capacity the saying goes around. Arabic uses this bare-accusative noun where English would say 'as a'.
The English is machine-translated.

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