Arabic vocabulary
How to say “show” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
فَإِنَّهُ هُوَ الَّذِي دَلَّ عَلَى الإِلَهِ
For it is reason that guided to God.
دَلَّ — has guided. Past-tense verb, subject 'it' built in.
From: Intellect and Faith →وَقَدْ دَلَّ الْقُرْآنُ الْعَظِيمُ عَلَى أَنَّهُ كَانَ عَلَيْهِمَا لِبَاسٌ فِي قَوْلِهِ
The Glorious Qur'an indicates that there was clothing on them in the verse:
دَلَّ — it indicated. A past verb 'indicated / pointed to', with its subject ('the Qur'an') named just after. It comes before that subject and carries the implicit 'it' in its form; the verb sets up textual evidence for the claim being made.
From: Adam, Eve, and the Forbidden Tree →وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ يَدُلُّ عَلَى فِطْنَةِ إِسْمَاعِيلِ أَيْضًا
This hadith also shows Isma'il's astuteness.
يَدُلُّ — it shows. A present-tense verb describing an ongoing, general truth: the hadith habitually points to something. Its subject 'it' is folded inside the verb, reaching back to the hadith just named. This verb also sets up a preposition after it to introduce what is being pointed at, so the verb and that following particle work as a pair.
From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →OpenArabic teaches words like دَلَّ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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