OpenArabic Get the app

حِكَايَات stories in Arabic

حِكَايَات is how you say “stories” in Arabic.

Arabic

English

The audio uses AI voices.

Example sentence

اعلم أن كتاب الحلية قد حوى من الأحاديث والحكايات جملة حسنة

Know that the book 'Adornment' contains a good collection of hadiths and stories.

وَالحِكَايَاتِ and the stories

The connector 'and' joined to a definite noun, 'the stories', carrying the attached 'the'. It adds the second category the collection was gathered from, parallel to 'the hadiths'.

From Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives

The English is machine-translated.

The app’s sheet for the word كِتَاب: book, an audio button, and the root it comes from.

Practise this word in the app

One tap gives you the meaning, a grammar note and audio.

Add the words you don’t know. Practise them with spaced repetition.

Free. No ads. No subscription.

An account is needed in the app.

Download on the App Store Get it on Google Play

More example sentences

وتلك الحكايات ينبغي أن تدخل في ترجمة الحسن لا في ترجمة هشام،

Those stories should be included in the biography of al-Hasan, not in the biography of Hisham.

الْحِكَايَاتُ the stories

A definite noun, 'the stories', carrying the attached 'the', standing in apposition to the 'those' before it to make clear exactly which items are meant. The 'the' marks them as the specific stories already raised.

From Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives

Related words