تَأْوِيل interpretation in Arabic
تَأْوِيل is how you say “interpretation” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
والذب عنه لتأويل المحرفين وتعرض الطاغين
And defend it from the misinterpretations of those who distort and the attacks of tyrants.
لِتَأْوِيلِ from the misinterpretations
The 'li-' here points to what the defense is aimed against — the misreading. The noun, an action-noun for 'twisted interpretation,' opens an 'of' pair telling whose twisting: the distorters'.
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More example sentences
والأصولي الذي طرد التأويل عند الآخرين جهميا ومعتزليا وضالا،
And the theologian who pursues interpretation is considered by others as a Jahmi, a Mu'tazili, and misguided.
التَّأْوِيلَ the interpretation
This noun, the interpretation, is the accusative object of the verb and definite by 'al-'. It names what the scholar pushed through, the specific reinterpreting of texts.