Arabic vocabulary
ضَلِيعٌskilled in Arabic
ضَلِيعٌ is how you say “skilled” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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'.
From: Staying Firm in Faith →
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