Arabic vocabulary
صَفِّranks in Arabic
صَفِّ is how you say “ranks” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَكَمْ مِنْ شُجَاعٍ فِي صَفِّ الْحَرْبِ اُغْتِيِلَ،
How many a brave man in the ranks of battle was treacherously slain.
صَفِّ — ranks. A noun meaning 'rank/row', here heading a possessive pairing with 'the battle', so it reads 'ranks of...'. As the owner-noun it stays in its base form while passing the chain forward. It carries the 'of...' ending of the preposition 'in' that governs the whole phrase.
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