كَlike

Example sentences

• فإن القلب كالمرآة، والشهوات كالصدأ، وذكر الله كالماء الذي يجلوه

  For the heart is like a mirror, and desires are like rust; remembrance of God is like water that purifies it.

  كَ — is like. A one-letter prefix meaning 'like', used to draw a comparison. Arabic attaches it to the front of the thing compared rather than writing a separate word, and it forces that following noun into the genitive.

  From: A Sound Heart Knows →

• فإن القلب كالمرآة، والشهوات كالصدأ، وذكر الله كالماء الذي يجلوه

  For the heart is like a mirror, and desires are like rust; remembrance of God is like water that purifies it.

  كَ — are like. The same one-letter 'like' prefix beginning a second comparison, attached to the front of the thing compared and forcing it into the genitive. The parallel use keeps the two images, heart-mirror and desires-rust, matched in shape.

  From: A Sound Heart Knows →

• فإن القلب كالمرآة، والشهوات كالصدأ، وذكر الله كالماء الذي يجلوه

  For the heart is like a mirror, and desires are like rust; remembrance of God is like water that purifies it.

  كَ — is like. Again the one-letter 'like' prefix, opening the third comparison and forcing the noun after it into the genitive. It keeps the rhetorical pattern of the sentence intact: each thing is likened to something.

  From: A Sound Heart Knows →

• مِمَّا فِيهِ حَدٌّ فِي الدُّنْيَا كَالْقَتْلِ وَالزِّنَا وَالسَّرِقَةِ،

  which have prescribed punishment in this world, such as killing, fornication, and theft,

  كَ — like. The 'like' particle, here attached as a prefix, forcing the next noun into the (genitive) form and introducing examples: such as killing, and so on. It opens the list of instances.

  From: What Small Worship Erases →

• وظهرت من التخوم كالنجوم الزهر،

  And they appeared from the depths like shining stars,

  كَ — like. This is a one-letter particle fused to the front of the next word, and its job is to draw a likeness between two things. Because it behaves like a preposition, it pulls the following noun into the 'of' ending, marking that noun as the standard the subject is being compared to.

  From: Rain and God's Decree →

• تمسكوا بعرى التقى كالمدابير الغدر،

  They held firmly to the bonds of piety like wariness of treachery,

  كَ — like. A one-letter likeness particle standing before the noun it compares to. Acting like a preposition, it forces the following word into the 'of' ending and sets up the simile, marking what comes next as the standard the grasping is likened to.

  From: Rain and God's Decree →

• فأنماث بالجسد عقله كإيماث الرميس،

  His intellect dissolved in the body, like the melting of a carcass.

  كَ — like. A one-letter likeness particle standing before the noun it compares to. Acting like a preposition, it forces the following word into the 'of' ending and sets up a simile, marking what comes next as the standard the dissolving is likened to.

  From: Adam and the Rebel →

• كَالرَّاعِي يرْعَى حول الْحمى يُوشك أَن يَقع فِيهِ

  Like a shepherd grazing around a sanctuary, he is likely to fall into it.

  كَ — like. A one-letter prefix meaning 'like', attached to the front of the noun to set up a comparison. It pulls the following noun into the form a preposition-like particle governs and frames the whole image as a likeness, the way English uses 'like a...'.

  From: Patience in Hard Times →