Arabic vocabulary
ظَاهِرِهِمْtheir outward appearance in Arabic
ظَاهِرِهِمْ is how you say “their outward appearance” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَإِنَّ بَاطِنَ الْقَوْمِ فَوْقَ ظَاهِرِهِمْ
And indeed, the inner state of the people is worse than their outward appearance.
ظَاهِرِهِمْ — their outward appearance. A noun ending in -hum 'their', so it fuses 'outer appearance' with the group as owner. The -hum points back to the people named earlier, marking this as 'their outward side', the thing the inner state is set above.
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