Arabic vocabulary
يَسْفِكُ is how you say “shed” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
بَلْ كَيْفَ يَلِيقُ بِهِ أَنْ يُؤَيِّدَهُ وَيَنْصُرَهُ وَيُعْلِيَهُ وَيُظْهِرَهُ وَيُظْفِرَهُ بِأَهْلِ الْحَقِّ يَسْفِكُ دِمَاءَهُمْ وَيَسْتَبِيحُ أَمْوَالَهُمْ وَأَوْلَادَهُمْ وَنِسَاءَهُمْ قَائِلًا
Rather, how can it befit Him to support, aid, exalt, manifest, and empower him over the people of truth while he sheds their blood, justifying their wealth, children, and women, claiming:
يَسْفِكُ — while he sheds. This is a present-tense verb 'he sheds', its subject carried inside, opening a circumstance clause, 'while he sheds...'. Arabic often uses a bare present verb like this to mean 'doing so while...', describing the state accompanying the main action.
From: Proof of the True Messenger →OpenArabic teaches words like يَسْفِكُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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