Arabic vocabulary
مَثَلَlike in Arabic
مَثَلَ is how you say “like” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
مثل ما روي عن أبي حمزة الصوفي أنه وقع في بئر فجاء رجلان فَطمّاها،
Like the story narrated about Abu Hamza al-Sufi, who fell into a well, and then two men came and filled it up.
مَثَلَ — like. This noun, 'the like', is set in the object form to draw a comparison, and it heads an 'of' pairing with the 'what' that follows. Arabic uses this object-form 'like' to mean 'as in the case of...'.
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