Arabic vocabulary
كَلَالِيبُhooks
How to say “hooks” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَإِنَّهَا الْكَلَالِيبُ
So indeed they are the hooks.
الْكَلَالِيبُ — the hooks. A definite plural noun ('the hooks') serving as the comment that the emphatic 'indeed they...' clause drives home. Arabic states 'they are the hooks' by placing the pronoun and this noun together, with no verb 'is'. The al- marks it as the specific, metaphorical hooks meant.
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