Arabic vocabulary
أصلprinciple
How to say “principle” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
خُلاصةُ الطريق أصلان أن تُعبَدَ اللهُ وحده، وأن تُعبَدَه بما شَرَع
The essence of the path is two principles: that you worship Allah alone, and that you worship Him with what He has prescribed.
أَصْلَانِ — two principles. The DUAL — 'two foundations', a form English has to spell out with 'two'. Arabic instead folds 'exactly two' into the noun's own -ani ending; it stands here as the nominative predicate, 'are two roots'.
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