خَابِزٍa baker

Example sentences

• يَغْدُو عَلَيَّ الْخُبْزُ مِنْ خَابِزٍ لَا يَقْبَلُ الرَهْنَ وَلَا يَنْسَى،

  Bread comes to me in the morning from a baker who neither accepts pledges nor overlooks debts.

  خابزٍ — a baker. An indefinite noun built from a verb (a doer-noun, 'a baker'), the source of the bread. Sitting after the preposition it takes the genitive ending, and being indefinite it reads 'a baker', a non-specific one whose description follows.

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