Arabic vocabulary
ظَواهِرُoutward appearance
How to say “outward appearance” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
بَاطِنُهُمْ كَظَواهِرِهِمْ؛
Their inward is like their outward appearance.
كَظَواهِرِهِمْ — like their outward appearance. This opens with the ka- prefix, a particle of resemblance meaning 'like/as', which sets up a comparison and governs the noun it rides on. That noun also carries -hum ('their'), so the whole word reads as the yardstick the inner self is measured against: their outward appearance, with the ka- doing the equating that English needs a separate 'like' for.
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