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مِلْحُ salt in Arabic

مِلْحُ is how you say “salt” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فتخضع الْأَعْنَاق وتنكسر النُّفُوس وتخشع الْأَصْوَات ويذوب الْكبر كَمَا يذوب الْملح فِي المَاء،

So necks are humbled, souls are broken, voices become subdued, and arrogance melts like salt in water.

الْمِلْحُ salt

Subject of 'melts' in the simile, nominative, after its verb. The everyday image of total dissolving.

From Reflecting on God's Names

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قُلْتُ وَمَا زَالَ الْعُلَمَاءُ وَالْفُضَلَاءُ يَعْجَبُهُمْ الْمِلْحُ،

I said: The scholars and the men of distinction have always liked wit.

الْمِلْحُ the wit,

The al- makes this definite, 'the' wit, the specific known thing. Despite coming last, it is the actual doer of 'pleases' in the previous verb (which carried 'them' as its object), so it serves as the delayed subject of that pleasing.

From Permissible Laughter and Conduct

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