مَثَل similar in Arabic
مَثَل is how you say “similar” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَقَول الملبي لبيْك اللَّهُمَّ لبيْك وأمثال ذَلِك
And the statement of the one performing the Talbiyah: (Here I am, O Allah, here I am) and similar phrases.
وَأَمْثَالُ and similar
'and the likes of' — 'wa' plus 'amthal' (broken plural of 'mithl'), nominative, head of an 'of' pairing with 'that'. It gathers in similar cases.
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More example sentences
وأمثال ذَلِك مِمَّا اسْتعْمل فِيهِ لفظ الْكَلِمَة من الْكتاب وَالسّنة بل وَسَائِر كَلَام الْعَرَب فَإِنَّمَا يُرَاد بِهِ الْجُمْلَة التَّامَّة
And similar uses of the term 'word' in the Book and the Sunnah, as well as in the rest of Arabic speech, refer to a complete sentence.
وَأَمْثَالُ And similar
'and the likes of' — 'wa' plus 'amthal' (broken plural of 'mithl'), nominative, head of an 'of' pairing with 'that'.
ومثل هذا كمثل من أكل طعامًا لذيذًا وهو مسموم،
And this is like someone who ate delicious food that was poisoned,
وَمَثَلُ and like
The wa- opens the comparison, and this noun is the first half of an 'of' pairing, 'likeness of this', so it owns the relationship with the word after it. As the subject of the comparison it stands in the subject case and gives up its own 'the' to the following demonstrative.
ومثل هذا كمثل من أكل طعامًا لذيذًا وهو مسموم،
And this is like someone who ate delicious food that was poisoned,
كَمَثَلِ is like
The preposition 'like' fused with the noun 'likeness', forming the predicate 'is like the likeness of'. It governs that noun into the possessive case and sets up the comparison with the person described next.
مَثَلُ الَّذِي يَعْمَلُ لِلرِّيَاءِ وَالسُّمْعَةِ كَمَثَلِ الَّذِي يَمْلَأُ كِيسَهُ حَصًى،
'The example of one who acts for showing off and seeking praise is like the example of one who fills his bag with stones,
مَثَلُ example
This noun heads an 'X of Y' possessive pairing, 'the example of...'. Arabic builds such a chain by setting two nouns side by side with no separate word for 'of', and this first noun gives up any 'the' of its own, taking its definiteness instead from the part that follows. It also opens the sentence as the topic being described.