Arabic vocabulary
How to say “like” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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...'.
From: Trust in God →OpenArabic teaches words like مَثَلَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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