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جَلْد flogging in Arabic

جَلْد is how you say “flogging” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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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