Arabic vocabulary
How to say “Satan” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَكَانَ سَبَب ذَلِك الملعون الشَّيْطَان
And the cause of that was the accursed Satan.
الشَّيْطَانُ — Satan. This is the name for Satan, definite with 'al-', the delayed subject of 'was': 'the cause of that was the accursed Satan'. It takes the nominative as that subject, arriving after the predicate in Arabic's flexible order. It names the cause.
From: Adam's Warning →OpenArabic teaches words like شَّيْطَانِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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