Arabic vocabulary
How to say “wise” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
كَانَ لُقْمَانُ الْحَكِيمُ عَبْدًا نُوبِيًّا أَسْوَدًا
Luqman the Wise was a black Nubian slave.
الْحَكِيمُ — the Wise. A definite epithet ('the Wise') tagging the name, matching it in definiteness as an attached description. It rides alongside the subject, coloring in who Luqman was.
From: Luqman's Wisdom and Trial →OpenArabic teaches words like حَكِيمُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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