Arabic vocabulary
How to say “science” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
ثم إن بعض طلبة العلوم من أبناء فارس والروم، صاروا مولَعِين بنوع من جدل المموِّهين،
Then, some students of knowledge from the sons of Persia and Rome became obsessed with a type of deceptive argumentation.
العُلُومِ — science. Genitive owner of 'students' — 'the sciences'; broken plural; 'students of knowledge'.
From: Misguided Methodology →وتفهم علومه وأمثاله والاعتناء بمواعظه
And understand its sciences and parables, and pay attention to its lessons.
عُلُومِهِ — its sciences. A broken plural, 'branches of knowledge,' owned by 'it' — the Book's sciences — as the thing to be understood. Set straight after the action-noun, it is what the deep understanding works on.
From: Devotion to the Quran →ونشر علومه والدعاء اليه وإلى ما ذكرناه من نصيحته
And spread its knowledge, and call people towards it and towards what we mentioned of sincere devotion to it.
عُلُومِهِ — its knowledge. The same broken plural 'its sciences' as earlier, owned by the Book — but now as what gets spread, the object of 'spreading' rather than of 'understanding'.
From: Devotion to the Quran →وما هو من علوم الاسلام،
And it is not part of Islamic sciences.
عُلُومِ — sciences. A broken plural, 'sciences / branches of knowledge,' in the -i form after 'of,' heading an 'of' pair with 'Islam.' Logic, the author insists, is not among the SCIENCES of Islam — an outsider discipline.
From: Revelation Over Philosophy →وما دواء هذه العلوم وعلمائها والعاملين بها علما وعقدا إلا الحريق والإعدام من الوجود
And there is no remedy for these sciences, their scholars, and those who practice them in knowledge and belief except fire and annihilation from existence.
الْعُلُومِ — sciences. This is the thing the demonstrative points at, a plural reshaped internally from its singular (a broken plural). It is the second half of the 'remedy of these sciences' possessive, taking the genitive that the ownership relation demands.
From: Revelation Over Philosophy →OpenArabic teaches words like عُلُومٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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