Arabic vocabulary
How to say “heresy” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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