Arabic vocabulary
حَبَائِلtraps in Arabic
حَبَائِل is how you say “traps” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
من النساء وللنساء حبائل الشيطان المكار،
From the women and for the women are the cunning traps of the deceitful Satan,
حَبَائِلُ — traps. This is the delayed subject of the sentence, the thing that exists 'for the women', and it heads a possessive pairing meaning 'the traps of Satan'. Being the front of that pairing, it stays bare of 'the' and takes its definiteness from the owner named next.
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