Arabic vocabulary
ضَلِيعٌskilled
How to say “skilled” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَقَالَ إِنِّي مِنْ بَيْنِهِمْ لَضَلِيعٌ
He said, "I am indeed one of them, an expert."
لَضَلِيعٌ — indeed an expert. An emphatic 'la-' prefix on a predicate noun, doubling the force of the earlier 'indeed': it stresses that the speaker really is an expert. This noun is the completing description of the emphatic 'I am'.
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