Arabic vocabulary
بِمَعْنَى is how you say “in the sense of” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
حَتَّى يَدْخُلُ فِي النَّوْعِ الثَّانِيِّ مِنْ مَعْنَى الْعَبْدِ وَهُوَ الْعَبْدُ بِمَعْنَى الْعَابِدِ
until it enters the second sense of the word "slave", which is the sense of "worshipper".
بِمَعْنَى — in the sense of. The preposition 'in/by' fused to a noun 'meaning', forming 'in the sense of'. It governs the following noun into the genitive and specifies which of the word's senses is intended.
From: What Worship Really Means →OpenArabic teaches words like بِمَعْنَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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