Arabic vocabulary

سَخِيفَةٍfoolish in Arabic

سَخِيفَةٍ is how you say “foolish” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

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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