Arabic vocabulary
الزَنْدَقَةِ is how you say “heresy” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَكَانَ فِيهَا مِنَ الزَنْدَقَةِ وَعِبَادَةِ النُّجُومِ وَرَأْيُ الْأَوَائِلِ شَيْءٌ كَثِيرٌ،
And in it there was much heresy, star-worship, and many opinions of the early authorities.
الزَّنْدَقَةِ — the heresy. A definite noun 'the heresy', the first listed content, held in the genitive by the partitive 'some of' before it. Its 'the' marks the category as a known kind of doctrinal deviation.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →OpenArabic teaches words like الزَنْدَقَةِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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