Arabic vocabulary
How to say “guile” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَجُنْدٌ أَصْحَابُهَا الْمَكْرُ وَالْخِدَاعُ
And the forces of its companions are guile and deception.
الْمَكْرُ — the guile. A definite noun in the nominative renaming what the forces are, 'the guile'. It stands in apposition or as predicate to the earlier noun, identifying the companions with these traits rather than describing some separate thing.
From: Three States of the Heart →OpenArabic teaches words like مَكْرُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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