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سَيْفُ sword in Arabic

سَيْفُ is how you say “sword” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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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