Arabic vocabulary
أَشْبَهَsimilar in Arabic
أَشْبَهَ is how you say “similar” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وفيها أباطيل وتنجيم وما أشبهه،
It also contains falsehoods and astrology and similar things.
أَشْبَهَهُ — is similar to it. This is a Form IV verb 'resembled' with an attached '-hu' = 'it' — 'what resembles it'. The past verb fills out the relative clause begun by 'what'. The pronoun loops back to the false matters just listed, so 'ma ashbahahu' = 'and similar things'.
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