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سِكِّين knife in Arabic

سِكِّين is how you say “knife” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

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