Arabic vocabulary
مَكْرُguile in Arabic
مَكْرُ is how you say “guile” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
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 →
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