Arabic vocabulary
سَخِيفَةٍfoolish
How to say “foolish” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
إِلَى أَنْ فُرُوقَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ فِي مَذَاهِبٍ سَخِيفَةٍ وَبِدَعٍ قَبِيحَةٍ
until the divisions of the Age of Ignorance became foolish doctrines and ugly innovations.
سَخِيفَةٍ — foolish. A feminine-singular adjective agreeing with the non-human plural before it. Arabic treats plurals of lifeless things as a single feminine unit for agreement, so this description takes feminine-singular shape rather than a plural one.
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