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مَثَلَ like in Arabic

مَثَلَ is how you say “like” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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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