Arabic vocabulary
نَفِيسٌprecious in Arabic
نَفِيسٌ is how you say “precious” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وأنا خلقت من نارٍ وجوهر النار نفيس،
And I was created from fire, and the essence of fire is precious.
نَفِيسٌ — precious. This indefinite noun is the description of the topic, the predicate, in the plain subject ending. With no separate 'is', the bare noun completes 'the essence of fire is precious'.
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