Arabic vocabulary
صَنَمٌ is how you say “idol” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
الْأَصْنَام لذات الدُّنْيَا كسوداء
The idols are the pleasures of this world, like a dark-skinned woman.
الْأَصْنَامُ — the idols. A broken plural 'idols', the topic, nominative, and first term of an 'of' chain — 'the idols of the pleasures of the world'. It owns the noun that follows.
From: Overcoming Desire →OpenArabic teaches words like صَنَمٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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