Arabic vocabulary
عُرْيَانnaked in Arabic
عُرْيَان is how you say “naked” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
رَأَيْتُ إِبْلِيسَ فِي الْمَنَامِ عُرْيَانًا يَتَلَاعَبُ بِالنَّاسِ
I saw Iblis in a dream, naked and toying with the people.
عُرْيَانًا — naked. A descriptive word in the accusative giving the state in which the figure was seen, 'while naked'. Arabic uses an accusative noun this way to hang a circumstance on the main action, describing the subject's condition at that moment. It paints how the figure appeared.
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