Arabic vocabulary
How to say “practices” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
ومن سُنَنِه التسميةُ، وتقديمُ اليُمنى على اليُسرى، والمُوالاةُ، وتخفيفُ التراب إذا كان كثيرًا، وألّا يُكَرِّر المسح
Among its Sunnahs: saying 'Bismillah', preferring the right over the left, continuity, lightening the dust if it is excessive, and not repeating the wiping.
سُنَنِهِ — its Sunnahs. A broken plural, 'its sunnahs / recommended practices,' with 'its' attached, in the -i form after 'among.' These are the encouraged-but-optional parts of tayammum; the items follow.
From: The Practice of Earth Cleansing →وَطَرِيقُهُمَا بِمَعْزِلٍ عَنْ سُنَنِ السَّلَفِ الصَّالِحِ،
And their path is apart from the practices of the pious predecessors,
سُنَنِ — practices. A plural noun opening an 'of' pairing with the word that follows, in the form the preposition before it requires. Set directly beside its owner with no separate 'of', it takes its definiteness from that owner and names the practices they have left behind.
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