Arabic vocabulary

حَبَائِلُsnares in Arabic

حَبَائِلُ is how you say “snares” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

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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