Arabic vocabulary
How to say “polytheist” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وبين ما يسميه هو عقليات من الأمور المأخوذة عن بعض الطواغيت من المشركين وأهل الكتاب وغير ذلك من أنواع الاعتبار
And between what he calls 'rationalities' taken from some tyrants among the polytheists, People of the Book, and other forms of consideration.
ٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ — the polytheists. Genitive after 'min' — 'the polytheists'; sound masculine plural genitive.
From: Judging by Revelation →فَمَنْ أَشْرَكَ بِاللَّهِ ثُمَّ مَاتَ مُشْرِكًا فَهُوَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّارِ قَطْعًا،
So whoever associates partners with Allah and then dies as a polytheist, he is certainly among the companions of the Fire.
مُشْرِكًا — as a polytheist. A bare indefinite noun describing the state of the subject while dying, 'as a polytheist'. This is a circumstance-marker: its special ending shows it gives the condition in which the dying happens.
From: The Sin of Idolatry →OpenArabic teaches words like مُشْرِك through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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