Arabic vocabulary
مُجَرَّدٌ is how you say “only” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
هذا هو الصوم المشروع، لا مجرد الإمساك عن الطعام والشراب
This is the prescribed fasting, not merely abstaining from food and drink.
مُجَرَّدَ — merely. A passive participle 'stripped / bare', first term of an 'of' pairing — 'the bare [act of] abstaining' — in the accusative as what is being negated. It owns the noun that follows.
From: The Meaning of Fasting →OpenArabic teaches words like مُجَرَّدٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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