Arabic vocabulary
سِكِّينknife in Arabic
سِكِّين is how you say “knife” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَقَالَ إِئْتُونِي بِالسِّكِّينِ
Then he said, "Bring me the knife."
بِالسِّكِّينِ — with the knife. A 'with/by' preposition fused to a definite noun, and with the 'bring' command this 'with' marks the thing to be brought, an Arabic idiom where 'come with X' means 'bring X'. The al- makes it a specific known knife. In speech the article's l-sound merges into the following letter, though it is still written.
From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →
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