Arabic vocabulary
How to say “sorcery” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَذَكَرَ مِنْهَا الشِّرْكَ بِاللَّهِ، وَالسِّحْرَ، وَقَتْلَ النَّفْسِ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللهُ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ، وَأَكْلَ مَالِ الْيَتِيمِ، وَأَكْلَ الرِّبَا، وَالتَّوَلِّيَ يَوْمَ الزَّحْفِ، وَقَذْفَ الْمُحْصَنَاتِ الْغَافِلَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْهِ
He mentioned among them: associating partners with Allah, sorcery, unjust killing, consuming the wealth of an orphan, usury, fleeing from the battlefield, and falsely accusing chaste, unaware, believing women - agreed upon by scholars.
وَالسِّحْرَ — and the sorcery. A fused 'and' plus a noun with 'the', 'and the sorcery', adding the next item to the list of objects. Its ending matches the others as a listed object.
From: What Small Worship Erases →OpenArabic teaches words like سِحْر through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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