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غِيَارٍ substitution in Arabic

غِيَارٍ is how you say “substitution” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَالْخَيْلُ الْمَوْسُومَةُ وَالْأَنْعَامُ وَالْحَرْثَ فَلِلشَّهَوَاتِ حِيْلَةٍ غِيَارٍ،

And the branded horses, the livestock, and the cultivated fields — desires have a deceitful device for substitution.

غِيَارٍ of substitution,

An indefinite noun describing the stratagem before it — 'of substitution / for swapping' — sitting in the genitive as the owner in a possessive link. Arabic can pin down what kind of thing a noun is by setting another noun behind it in this 'of' relationship. It specifies the trick's nature: replacement.

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