ضيف (deif) — "guest" in Modern Standard Arabic
ضيف
Deif
guest
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ضيف in a sentence
Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.
في المساء جاء ضيف الى بيتي
Fi al-masa' ja'a dayf ila bayti.
In the evening, a guest came to my house.
عمر قال للضيف السلام عليكم صباح الخير
Omar qala lid-dayfi As-salamu alaykum sabah al-khayr.
Omar said to the guest "As-salamu alaykum, good morning".
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