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لِقَتْل for killing in Arabic

لِقَتْل is how you say “for killing” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَمِنْ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُمْ الْقَتْلُ أَنْفَى لِلْقَتْلِ، مَذْكُورٌ فِي قَوْلِهِ وَلَكُمْ فِي الْقِصَاصِ حَيَاةٌ

Among them their saying: 'Killing prevents killing' is mentioned in His saying: 'And there is for you in legal retribution [saving of] life.'

لِلْقَتْلِ for killing

This is the preposition 'for, against' merged with 'the killing' (definite via 'al-'). It marks what the deterring works against, completing 'more deterring of killing'. The preposition forces a genitive on the noun and links the comparison to its target.

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