Arabic vocabulary
سِّيَاطِwhips in Arabic
سِّيَاطِ is how you say “whips” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
أَحَدُهُمَا أَنَّ المَوَاعِظَ كَالسِّيَاطِ،
The first of the two: that admonitions are like the whips,
كَالْسِّيَاطُ — like the whips. This fuses a 'like/as' comparison-particle to a definite noun, building a simile in one word: 'like the whips'. The particle governs the noun into the genitive and serves as the clause's predicate.
From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →
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