Arabic vocabulary

مِلَاحًاwitty in Arabic

مِلَاحًا is how you say “witty” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَقَدْ رُوِيَّنَا عَنْ ابْنِ عَائِشَةَ أَحَادِيثًا مِلَاحًا فِي بَعْضِهَا رِفْثٌ،
And indeed we have narrated from Ibn Aisha hadiths that are witty, and some of them contain obscenity.
مِلَاحًا — witty. A describing word attached to the 'reports' before it, marking them as witty. As an Arabic adjective it follows its noun and copies its indefinite, object-marking ending, so it trails and agrees with the reports.
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