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كِتَابًا a book in Arabic

كِتَابًا is how you say “a book” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَإِذَا رَأَيْتُ كِتَابًا لَمْ أَرَهُ فَكَأَنِّي وَقَعْتُ عَلَى كَنْزٍ،

When I saw a book I had not seen before, it was as if I had stumbled upon a treasure.

كتابًا a book

The object of 'saw', an indefinite noun ('a book') shown by its -an object ending, which marks both that it is unspecified and that it is what the verb acts on. Being indefinite is the point: any previously unseen book triggers the reaction.

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