Arabic vocabulary
يَذْنَبَto sin in Arabic
يَذْنَبَ is how you say “to sin” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَأَمَّا الذُّنُوبَ فَلَيْسَ لِلْعَبْدِ أَنْ يَذْنَبَ
As for sins, it is not for the servant to sin.
يَذْنَبَ — to sin. A present verb 'sin' standing in the subjunctive shape forced by the 'to' particle just before it. The changed ending is how a listener knows this is the contemplated action, the thing-not-permitted, rather than an ongoing fact.
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