Azraël
See also: Azrael
French
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic عِزْرَائِيل (ʕizrāʔīl).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Azraël m
- Azrael (angel of death)
- 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 166; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:
- Les Kurdes trépassés dans la ville couraient grand risque d’être enterrés à plat et face contre terre, au lieu d’être installés dans la fosse, le visage tourné contre La Mecque, comme l’exige la coutume. Ainsi Azraël, l’ange de la mort, blessé par cette posture inconvenante, leur refuserait l’accès au paradis.
- Kurds who had trespassed into the town ran great risk of being placed on the ground with their faces in the earth instead of being put upright in the grave with their faces towards Mecca, as custom required. Azriel, the Angel of Death, would take offence at their unseemly position and refuse them entrance to Paradise.
- 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 166; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN: