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حِيَل tricks in Arabic

حِيَل is how you say “tricks” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فاعلمت آراءها فِي اسْتِخْرَاج الْحِيَل

So they put their minds together to devise schemes.

الحِيَلِ tricks

A broken plural 'stratagems', the owner completing 'the devising of schemes', genitive. The plots they worked to contrive.

From The Night of the Migration

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ومن عاش فيه بالحيل والمكر والدهاء فلا بد له من خزي في الدنيا ومقت في الأخرى وإن تسود هذا،

Whoever lives by deceit, trickery, and cunning will inevitably face disgrace in this world and contempt in the next, even if they gain prominence.

بِالْحِيَلِ by deceit

This is 'by / with' plus 'the tricks' (a broken plural reshaped from its singular). The 'bi-' is instrumental — the means by which he lives: deceit. It governs the genitive. It heads a list of his methods.

From Intention in Islam

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