Arabic vocabulary
سَيْفsword
How to say “sword” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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.
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