Arabic vocabulary
سَفَه is how you say “folly” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَظَهَرَ أَنَّ مَنْ أَنْكَرَ كَوْنَهُ رَسُولًا نَبِيًّا فَقَدْ قَدَحَ بِاللَّهِ وَنَقَصَهُ وَنَسَبَهُ إِلَى الْجَهْلِ وَالْعَجْزِ وَالسَّفَهِ
It became clear that whoever denies his being a Messenger and Prophet has indeed defamed God, diminished Him, and attributed ignorance, inability, and folly to Him.
وَالسَّفَهِ — and folly. The wa- adds a third attributed fault, a noun carrying 'the', 'and folly', in the prepositional form by sharing the earlier preposition. It closes the list of faults wrongly ascribed to God.
From: Signs of the Messenger in Medina →OpenArabic teaches words like سَفَه through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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