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كَلَالِيبُ hooks in Arabic

كَلَالِيبُ is how you say “hooks” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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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