Arabic vocabulary
How to say “speak” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
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.
تُنْطَقُ — articulated. PASSIVE present — 'are pronounced', not 'pronounce'. The inner-vowel shift marks the passive, so the meanings are shown as things spoken, with no named speaker.
From: Words That Nourish the Heart →وزخرفوه بعبارات موجودة في كلام العلماء قد نطقوا بها،
And they adorned it with phrases found in the speech of scholars who have uttered them.
نَطَقُوا — they uttered. Past 'they uttered, spoke', the -u marking 'they' — the scholars who did say them.
From: Misguided Methodology →نطقت بفضله الْآيَات وَالْأَخْبَار
The verses and reports spoke of his virtue.
نَطَقَتْ — they spoke. A past-tense verb 'spoke / uttered' with the feminine '-at' tail agreeing with its subject 'the verses' (a non-human plural treated as feminine singular). The verb stays singular-feminine before its plural subject.
From: Abu Bakr: First Champion of Islam →OpenArabic teaches words like نَطَقَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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