Arabic vocabulary
ظَاهِرِهِمْtheir outward appearance
How to say “their outward appearance” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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