Arabic vocabulary
حَبَائِلُsnares
How to say “snares” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
مِنَ النِّسَاءِ وَلِلنِّسَاءِ حَبَائِلُ الشَّيْطَانِ الْمَكَّارِ،
Among women, and for women, are the snares of the crafty devil.
حَبَائِلُ — snares. A plural noun standing as the subject of a verbless sentence — 'snares ... are for women'. It heads a possessive link with the words after it ('snares of the devil') and so drops any 'the' of its own. As subject it carries the nominative ending. The plural is an irregular reshaped form.
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