Arabic vocabulary
سَائِبstrays in Arabic
سَائِب is how you say “strays” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
أطلقوا أنفسهم في أغراضها كالسوائب والبحر،
They released themselves into their desires like stray animals adrift at sea,
كَالسَّوَائِبِ — like the strays. A one-letter comparison particle is fused to the front, likening them to stray animals, and acting like a preposition it pulls the noun into the 'of' ending. The 'the' marks the strays as the specific image being compared to.
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