Arabic vocabulary
السَّيْلِthe flood in Arabic
السَّيْلِ is how you say “the flood” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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