Arabic vocabulary
أَنَّىhow in Arabic
أَنَّى is how you say “how” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَأَنَّى يَضُرُّكَ كَيْدُ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ
How then could the plotting of the accursed Satan harm you?
فَأَنَّى — how then. The front 'fa-' draws an inference ('so then'), and the rest is a question-word ('how / from where') used here not to ask for directions but to deny outright: 'how could it possibly...?'. The whole opening sets up a rhetorical challenge expecting the answer 'it cannot'.
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