Arabic vocabulary
السَّيْلِthe flood
How to say “the flood” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
إِذَا هُمْ بِالسَّيْلِ قَدْ أَقْبَلَ
When they were with the flood, it had already come.
بِالسَّيْلِ — with the flood. Preposition bi- on a definite noun, in the genitive; here bi- marks the thing they are suddenly confronted with. So the phrase reads 'there they were, face to face with the flood'.
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