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