لِصّthief in Arabic

Example sentences

• وإن تعانى سرقة الأجزاء ، أو كشط الأوقاف ، فهذا لص بسمت محدث ،

  And if he engages in stealing parts or scraping endowments, then he is a thief in the guise of a narrator,

  لِصٌّ — a thief. This indefinite noun, 'a thief', is the comment on the demonstrative 'this': 'this one is a thief'. With no verb 'is' spoken, Arabic sets the predicate beside the topic, and the plain undefined ending marks it as the new information.

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