حَرْفٌ letter in Arabic
حَرْفٌ is how you say “letter” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
كَمَا كَانُوا يستعملون الْحَرْف فِي الِاسْم فَيَقُولُونَ هَذَا حرف غَرِيب أَي لفظ الِاسْم غَرِيب
Just as they used to use (letter) for the word, saying: This is a strange letter, meaning the word itself is strange.
الْحَرْفَ (letter)
'the letter, particle', accusative as the object of 'use'. al- makes it the term 'harf' as a label; here used loosely for a word.
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كَمَا كَانُوا يستعملون الْحَرْف فِي الِاسْم فَيَقُولُونَ هَذَا حرف غَرِيب أَي لفظ الِاسْم غَرِيب
Just as they used to use (letter) for the word, saying: This is a strange letter, meaning the word itself is strange.
حَرْفٌ letter
'a letter', nominative indefinite — the predicate, 'this is a [strange] harf'. But they mean a whole word, which is the point.
وَقسم سِيبَوَيْهٍ الْكَلَام إِلَى اسْم وَفعل وحرف جَاءَ لِمَعْنى لَيْسَ باسم وَلَا فعل،
And Sibawayh divided speech into noun, verb, and letter that comes for meaning, not as a noun or a verb.
وَحَرْفٍ and letter
'and a particle', joined by 'wa', genitive — the third class. 'harf' here is the grammarians' term for a function-word, not a letter of the alphabet.
وكل من هَذِه الْأَقْسَام يُسمى حرفا
And each of these categories is called a letter.
حَرْفًا a letter
'a particle', accusative — the naming-complement left after the passive 'is called X'. Even when the verb goes passive, the complement keeps its accusative: 'is called a harf'.
لَكِن خَاصَّة الثَّالِث أَنه حرف جَاءَ لِمَعْنى لَيْسَ باسم
But specifically the third, it is a letter that comes for meaning, not as a noun.
حَرْفٌ a letter
'a particle', nominative as the predicate of 'anna...' — 'that it is a harf [which...]'. Indefinite, with a describing clause to follow.
أعلم أن من استخف بالقرآن أو المصحف أو بشئ منه أو سبهما أو جحد حرفا منه أو كذب بشئ مما صرح به
He knew that whoever belittled the Qur'an or the mus'haf, or any part of it, or insulted both of them, or denied a letter of it, or lied about what it clearly states.
حَرْفًا a letter
An indefinite noun 'a letter', the object of 'denied', in the accusative as what is rejected. With no al- it stays general, 'even a single letter'. The accusative marks it as the thing the denial targets.