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إِبْلِيس Iblis in Arabic

إِبْلِيس is how you say “Iblis” in Arabic.

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فرح إبليس بنزول آدم من الجنة،

Iblis rejoiced at Adam's descent from Paradise.

إِبْلِيسُ Iblis

The name Iblis (Satan); the '-u' ending marks it as the subject.

From Adam's Descent

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More example sentences

وكلما نصب إبليس لي شركًا خرقت ذلك الشرك،

Every time Satan set a trap for me, I destroyed that trap.

إِبْلِيسُ Satan

This proper name is the subject of the verb that came just before it, in the usual verb-first Arabic order. As the doer it takes the -u ending, the mark Arabic gives the noun performing the action.

From Victory Belongs to God

كَمَا قَالَ القَائِلُ وَكُنتُ امْرَأً مِنْ جُنْدِ إِبْلِيسِ

As the speaker said, I was one of Iblis's troops.

إِبْلِيسِ Iblis

A proper name standing as the owner in the 'troops of Iblis' pairing, in the genitive. Arabic joins the two nouns by adjacency alone, and this owner name says whose troops, fixing the speaker's old allegiance.

From Three States of the Heart

رَأَيْتُ إِبْلِيسَ اللَّعِينَ فِي الْمَنَامِ مَنْكُوسًا

I saw the accursed Iblis upside down in a dream.

إِبْلِيسَ Iblis

A proper name standing as the direct object of 'I saw', hence the accusative ending. Arabic flags the object by its case-ending, so this ending tells us he is the thing seen. As a name it is inherently definite. It is the figure beheld in the dream.

From Seeking Refuge from the Devil

رَأَيْتُ إِبْلِيسَ فِي الْمَنَامِ عُرْيَانًا يَتَلَاعَبُ بِالنَّاسِ

I saw Iblis in a dream, naked and toying with the people.

إِبْلِيس Iblis

A proper name standing as the direct object of 'I saw', hence the accusative ending, which is how Arabic flags the thing seen. As a name it is inherently definite. It is the figure beheld in this dream.

From Seeking Refuge from the Devil

وَذَلِكَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ سُبْحَانَهُ أَخْبَرَ عَنْ إِبْلِيسِ اللَّعِينِ

And that is because God, glorified be He, has informed us about the accursed Iblis.

إِبْلِيسِ Iblis

A proper name (a foreign one, so it does not take 'al-'). It is the topic the news is about, sitting in the genitive ending under the preceding 'about'.

From Seeking Refuge from the Devil

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