Arabic vocabulary
مَجَرَّد is how you say “mere” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وإن زللتَ فـأستغفرُ الله معناها طلبُ سترِ الذنب مع عزمٍ على إصلاحه؛ فالاستغفارُ بلا تصحيحٍ مجرّدُ صوت
And if you slip, 'I seek forgiveness from Allah' means asking for the concealing of the sin with a resolve to correct it; seeking forgiveness without correction is merely sound.
مُجَرَّدُ — merely. 'mere, nothing but', nominative as the predicate, and head of an 'of' pairing with 'a sound' — 'mere sound'. A passive participle ('stripped down to') used to belittle.
From: Remembrance That Reshapes the Heart →OpenArabic teaches words like مَجَرَّد through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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