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صَوْت sound in Arabic

صَوْت is how you say “sound” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

الذِّكرُ في الإسلامِ ليسَ أصواتًا فارغة، بل معانٍ مكتملة تُنطَق في جُملٍ تامَّة تُغذّي العقلَ والقلب

Remembrance in Islam is not empty sounds, but complete meanings articulated in complete sentences that nourish the mind and heart.

أَصْوَاتًا sounds

'sounds', accusative precisely because 'laysa' governs its predicate that way — 'is not sounds'. The case ending here is the fingerprint of 'laysa'.

From Words That Nourish the Heart

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وإن زللتَ فـأستغفرُ الله معناها طلبُ سترِ الذنب مع عزمٍ على إصلاحه؛ فالاستغفارُ بلا تصحيحٍ مجرّدُ صوت

And if you slip, 'I seek forgiveness from Allah' means asking for the concealing of the sin with a resolve to correct it; seeking forgiveness without correction is merely sound.

صَوْتٍ sound

Genitive owner closing 'mere ... of' — 'a sound'. Indefinite; empty noise, all that is left when correction is absent.

From Remembrance That Reshapes the Heart

فَرَفَعَتْ صَوْتَهَا،

Then she raised her voice,

صَوْتَهَا her voice

A noun with the 'her' ending attached, the object of the raising; one word for English's two. Its accusative ending marks it as what was raised, and the suffix points back to the woman as its owner.

From Wives of the Prophet

فَقَالَ لَهُ سَعْدٌ وَرَفَعَ صَوْتَهُ عَلَيْهِ

Sa'd said to him and raised his voice at him.

صَوْتَهُ his voice

A noun with attached -hu 'his' fusing owner and owned — 'his voice'. As the thing raised it takes the object (accusative) ending, flagging it as what the verb acted on.

From Warning Before the Battle of Badr

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