Arabic vocabulary
جَلْدflogging in Arabic
جَلْد is how you say “flogging” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فِي عَاجِلِ الدُّنْيَا كَالْجَلْدَ وَالرِّجَامَ وَالْحَلْقَ
In the immediate worldly life, such as flogging, stoning, and slitting the throat.
كَالْجَلْدَ — like flogging. The prefix ka- here means 'such as/like', introducing examples, and forces the following noun into the (genitive); its al- makes it definite. So it opens a list of sample punishments. It links the examples back to the scandals just mentioned.
From: On Reason and Temptation →
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