Arabic vocabulary
سَيْفُsword
How to say “sword” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَلَمَّا تَصَافَّ الْقَوْمُ كَانَ سَيْفُ عَامِرٍ فِيهِ قِصَرٌ،
When the people engaged one another, Amir's sword had a short dagger in it.
سَيْفُ — sword. This noun is the first half of a two-noun ownership pairing: it is the thing owned, and the name that follows is the owner. Arabic links 'X of Y' just by placing the two side by side, so the 'of' relationship lives in the word order, not in any separate linking word.
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