Arabic vocabulary

مُجَازmetaphors in Arabic

مُجَاز is how you say “metaphors” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

فإن برعت في الأصول وتوابعها من المنطق والحكمة والفلسفة، وآراء الأوائل ومجازات العقول،
So if you excel in the fundamentals and their appendages of logic, wisdom, philosophy, and the views of the ancients and the metaphors of minds,
وَمُجَازَاتِ — and the metaphors of. The conjunction adds another chain head, figurative-readings-of, in the genitive, owning the next word. It parallels 'views of', extending the list with a second possessive phrase.
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