Arabic vocabulary
قِتَالَfighting in Arabic
قِتَالَ is how you say “fighting” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَيُقَدِّمُونَكُمْ فَتَصِلُونَ الْقِتَالَ فَيَكُونُ الْقَتْلُ بِكُمْ
They will send you forward, then you will reach the fighting, and the killing will be by you.
الْقِتَال — the fighting. This definite noun is the object that the verb 'reach' acts on, marked by the object ending and carrying 'the'. It names what the addressees run into: the fighting. Its definite ending shows it is the specific battle at hand.
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