Arabic vocabulary
صَرَعَ is how you say “strike down” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَمَنْ صَرَعَ جُنْدَ الشَّيْطَانِ صَرَعَ الشَّيْطَانَ
And whoever is struck down by the troops of Satan is struck down by Satan.
صَرْعٍ — strikes down. The felling action-word repeated to drive the point home: being thrown by the troops is being thrown by their master. The repetition is rhetorical, restating the same idea at a higher level rather than adding a new event.
From: Staying Firm in Faith →OpenArabic teaches words like صَرَعَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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