Arabic vocabulary
حَذْوُlikeness
How to say “likeness” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
حَذْوُ الْقُذَّةِ بِالْقُذَّةِ،
Like for like.
حَذْوُ — likeness. A noun ('exact likeness') that heads an 'of' pairing with the word right after it, in a proverbial 'matching X with X' idiom. It sets up a comparison of perfect correspondence. As the head term it owns the genitive noun that follows.
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