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دُخَانٌ smoke in Arabic

دُخَانٌ is how you say “smoke” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

إذا داهمك خاطرٌ يجرّك إلى رياءٍ أو عُجب، اسأله بهدوء هل يزيدني قربًا أم يصنع لي تمثالًا من دخان

If a thought comes to you that leads you to vanity or conceit, ask it calmly: does it bring me closer, or does it create a statue of smoke?

دُخَانٍ smoke

'dukhan' = 'smoke'; takes the 'of...' ending after 'min', so 'of smoke'.

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لِئَلا يَكُونَ لَهُ دُخَانٌ،

so that there would be no smoke from it,

دُخَانٌ smoke

An indefinite noun (no 'the'), and its final -un tanwin sound marks that 'a-smoke, any smoke' indefiniteness. It is the thing whose existence is being denied: in this 'there is no X' frame it is the item said not to exist. Standing after the verb 'to be', it is what that verb tells us about, the smoke that is claimed to be absent.

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