Arabic vocabulary
سَيْفsword in Arabic
سَيْف is how you say “sword” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فإن الأصولية بينهم السيف،
For indeed, theology is the sword between them.
السَّيْفُ — the sword. This noun, the sword, is the predicate completing the emphatic sentence and so takes the nominative, made definite by 'al-'. It names what the discipline becomes among them, a metaphor stated as the sentence's predicate.
From: Unity Over Partisanship →
Related words
Learn Arabic vocabulary in context
OpenArabic teaches words like سَيْف through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
Get the app