Arabic vocabulary
شِّيعَةٌthe Shiites
How to say “the Shiites” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
قَالَتْ الشِّيعَةُ بَلُّ يَقْصِدُ عَلِيًّا؛
The Shiites said, "No, he meant Ali."
الشِّيعَةُ — the Shiites. A definite feminine collective noun, 'the Shi'a', the doer of 'said'; it sits after its verb per Arabic's verb-then-subject order. Being a feminine collective is why the verb before it took the feminine ending.
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