صلاة (salaah) — "prayer" in Modern Standard Arabic
صلاة
Salaah
prayer
- Topic
- religion
- Seen in
- 4 of our stories
"prayer" in the other dialects
صلاة 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 الصباح تصلي أمينة صلاة الفجر بينما تقرأ ماري كتابها المقدس.
Fi alsabah tusalli amina salat alfajr baynama taqra mari kitabaha almuqaddas.
In the morning, Amina prays the dawn prayer while Mary reads her holy book.
حسناً... أوافقك الرأي، غير أنني أتساءل: هل صلينا صلاة العصر، أم أننا نسيناها وسط هذا التعب المفرط؟
Hasanan... uwafiquka ar-ra'y, ghayra annani atasa'al: hal sallayna salat al-'asr, am annana nasinaha wasat hadha at-ta'ab al-mufrit?
Well... I agree with your opinion, however I wonder: did we pray the Asr prayer, or did we forget it amidst this excessive fatigue?
يستيقظ خالد في الصباح الباكر لاداء صلاة الفجر
Yastayqiz Khalid fi as-sabah al-bakir li_ada_ salaat al-fajr
Khalid wakes up in the early morning to perform the dawn prayer
بعد الصلاة تناول فطوره السريع مع اسرته حيث تبادلوا اطراف الحديث
Ba'da al-salat, tanawala futoorahu al-saree'a ma'a usratihi haythu tabadaloo atraf al-hadeeth.
After the prayer, he had his quick breakfast with his family where they exchanged conversations.
from A Busy Arab Morning